Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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Terry Sudduth does what most ISU student: mus! do a! some step during registration sit and wan. Lullda Steppe; in the College of Conununicallon and Fine Arts helps Chrmia' Aplis regMer. Renae Carpenler is on her way to registering in the College oi Education. REGISTRATION 3

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Diays Like These R-E-GOl-S-T'ROA-TOIOOON he spring l989 registration T marketzl the 10-year amiiversav w of the computerization of the registration process at lacksonville State University. More changes may be in store. For many students regis- tration consists of standing in line tor hours, sometimes as early :15 4:30 am. The and ot the endless registration line may be in siqht. According to Jerry Smith, director at admissions and records at ISU, HA group 0' wormemed administrators are looking at the advantages and dis- advantages of centralized registra- tion? The TquStrdllOn pmress now at JSU is rlecentmltzed, meaning each person registers at the college at his or her mmor. If the system i central- izerl, all majors would register at one location. The decentralized process used now requires several steps. The lirst step 15 for the student to get the neces- sary registration materials trom his or her university post otlice box. These materials include a schedule book containing a list of the classes Offered, a registration form and a data sheet listing all the Classes completed, The student develops his trial schedule and meets with an adwser. The advrs: er reviews the student's proposed schedule, otters advice and signs the trial schedule. At a scheduled date. the student goes to the dean's office at his major and presents his trial sched- ule to thir data entry operator. The call numbers at the courses requested are entered mm the computeri This come plctcs the student's tentative sched- ule. The schedule is not final until all tees are. pdid. It the student fails to pay the lens lay the. required date, the req- istrdtton is Lunc-elecli It JSU uhan ' to d centralized req- 1stratmn prmrss. the procedure will he basically the same. Howeve . the mlvmer would not be d5 phystcdlly close try the registration center. This would be lnCOthfnlellt it the? student needed further aclvtcc utter he reciz'hed the registration center. When the student completes his trial suhedule, i'eqarit'lless cat his major, he would go to d centralized location with several terminals. From this potnt the: pror-edure would be the same as the present procedure. Changing to a centralized reqistrds tion process has: both advantages and disadvantGQCS. Acvording to Smith, the loss at the interaction between stu- dent and adviser is the maior disad- VdntleO. On the other hand, a Gene tmlizert registration would be more ti'OSt'OlllCtertt. The process also would be taster due to the added number of clatd Oiitry tcrmtnals. Although the centralized registra- hon prowess is just an idea at the pre- Swllt, waitlnq hours to register some- day may be 6: thing of the past. Beth Rogers 2 THEME

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'nap sneaks up on lhebeai of us. upcoming test in one ol the No mane: how inlerainq a sub- lame! Fowler takes advantage 0! iect 15. there still are times when a some jree time to prepare for an as Paul Willis can cheat. many study lounges on campus. '7 M Students sometimes hnd the bees! place lo get work done is in Houston Cole Library. .1. , L 4 THEME