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University College rolls out online registration
System will automatically grant employee tuition remission By Andy Clendennen You want to take classes at University College in Arts & Sciences, but you can't get away from work during normal hours to complete your registration? No problem. University College is implementing a new registration system. Effective Nov. 20, registrations will be accepted via its Web site, ucollege.wustl.edu. Current evening students will use their Social Security number or student ID number and their PIN to complete registration, and new students will be issued a temporary PIN. This temporary PIN will be changed to a permanent number after the registration has been processed. This is similar to what other undergraduates at the University do, but regular day students will continue to register for Spring 2003 University College courses through WebStac. The University College registration for evening students will have a little kicker this time. "When you finish with your registration, you have to have a payment method," said Katina Truman, director of admissions and marketing for University College. "Our Web site is a portal into the traditional WebStac program. So students come into our Web site and select courses, and once they have the courses they want, they go to a registration checkout system on our secure site. "They can choose to use online credit cards, or we are working on e-checks, which isn't quite ready yet. Or they can go ahead and register, have us hold their registration and send us a check or bring a credit card to us, or come in to our office with a check or credit card." Employees at the University who are eligible for tuition remission can register, and the system will recognize them as employees and allow them to process at 100 percent remission for undergraduate and 50 percent for graduate. But the key is that no registrations will be processed until payment is established. The benefits are multiple, and Truman highlighted two of them. "I think the true benefit for this is that it's real-time registration," she said. "In the past, people would mail or fax their registrations to us, and then once we had them, we could get them into the system. Some courses closed during that time. "But this will be very, very close to real-time registration. They'll receive an e-mail confirming that the registration has taken place. Those paying right away will know immediately what they are taking." And the other benefit is that the student will be the one controlling data input. No longer will the University College administrators have to decipher various handwritings and smudges from the fax machines. "Brand-new students to University College will key in all the data and basically create their own record," Truman said. "Their address, their Social Security number -- everything will appear exactly as they input it. "It should be a more precise system for them." |
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