His goal, in addition to the registrar's job of balancing service with the needs of students, faculty and staff, was to implement the department's new registration technology which had been in development for three years. The new Online Advisement Registration System, OARS, would permit online advising and registration, helping students avoid long lines and keeping them current in the status of the classes they wanted. With OARS, students can review proposed courses, meet with advisors to discuss course content and then enter their final course selection. While advisors had used it earlier on a limited basis, the true test of the system began Nov. 18 when students on campus started registering online for second semester courses.
Registration occurs over a three-week period.
According to Guild, OARS is successfully addressing the needs of the approximately 2,000 students attending St. Norbert College this year. Guild assumed his new duties Sept. 1, succeeding Jon Curtis, who had held the registrar's post since 1971. Guild had been registrar and director of Institutional Research since 1981 at Northland College, Ashland. Guild obtained his bachelor's at the University of Illinois and his master's at Michigan State University. All rights reserved.