Relationships are key to the success of everything higher education hopes to accomplish, from recruiting the next class to retaining them, guiding them to graduation, creating successful alumni, and fostering satisfied donors. Creation of those relationships can be engaged and facilitated by the technology, communications tools, and ideas…

Online registration at Boston College, CORSS (Course Registration and Scheduling System), is described. Students register at a specific appointment time to work out an acceptable program with a terminal operator who is a member of the registrar's staff, and leaves the registration area with a printed schedule of courses. (MLW)

Computer technology has the potential to fundamentally alter present approaches to admitting, registering, recording grades, and servicing students. Some of the driving forces toward change and the restraining forces working against change at most universities are identifed. (MLW)

A procedure called "Services/Requirements Analysis" is proposed as a means of improving input to institutional management information systems. The procedure profiles the office's information needs and limitations and identifies benefit groups, all according to user perceptions and not the assumptions of the technological community. (MSE)

Offers a "one-stop shopping" model of student services for higher education campuses that utilizes a relational database with distributed access which allows counselors to access, input, and modify a variety of student information. Institutional benefits include increased student enrollment/retention and institutional reputation. Students benefit…

A Hierarchical Management Information System (HMIS) provides decision-making as well as operational information to all groups of the institution in a timely and predictable manner. Its operational aspects and benefits are discussed. (Author/LBH)

A model is presented for the development of effective, flexible student information systems that are directed by users' needs rather than other forces. The conceptual design, detail design, and policy consideration are discussed. Focus is on the development process rather than the final product. (MSE)

The process of designing a microcomputer program to cumulate and record student grades at Brigham Young University is outlined. The development was undertaken by the registrar's office with the input of faculty, including those who had previously designed their own grading software. (MSE)

The current status of computer use in student admissions and records functions in colleges and universities is briefly reviewed, and the changes occurring in Brigham Young University's admissions office functions during the 13 years of computer applications are outlined. (MSE)

A marketing information system approach for college admissions is outlined that includes objectives, information needs and sources, a data collection format, and information evaluation. Coordination with other institutional information systems is recommended. (MSE)

The techniques used by the Enrollment Management group at Boston College in reviewing enrollment through the year, predicting the attrition rate, and determining the number of new students to admit are outlined, and the data needs and manipulation are discussed. (MSE)

Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers are summarized which relate to planning and management programs and techniques and system development. Names and institutions of conference participants are included. (MSE)

Origins and development of a computerized credit transfer system for students in the University of Wisconsin system is described. The program will become the official course equivalency and degree requirement schema for the university, and will also serve the Wisconsin Technical College system. (Author/MSE)

One community college responded to the problem of high risk students with the development of a guided studies program, in which developmental studies students' progress is monitored carefully, and a student intentions reporting system helps students fulfill their educational objectives. (MSE)

A computerized student record system will incorporate several characteristics including: reduction of data redundancy, data storage by student, historical data cumulation, effective and efficient maintenance of records, flexibility, etc. (MLW)