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MARIA D’ALESSANDRO ASST. MANAGING EDITOR MAD724@CABRINI EDU

While students juggle classes, jobs, field experience, sports, extra-curricular activities, clubs, friends and family responsibilities,the office of the registrar juggles the coordination of registration, grading, auditing, degree completion verification, official class schedules, transcript requests and the ordering of diplomas, according to the Cabrini registrar ’s website.

Fitting it all together makes for quite an interesting pre-registration season. The coordination of hectic schedules has even led to time changes for the fall semester.

Phyllis Bean, registrar for Cabrini, said that Dr. FullerEspie, the chair of the science department, requested an extended period of time between classes, since students will be traveling from Founders Hall to the Center for Science, Education and Technology (SET) building next year An academic counsel committee, which included student representatives, decided not to start classes any earlier, but to have 10-minute breaks between classes that run from 8:15 a.m. to 3:10 p.m. instead. After those classes, five-minute breaks will continue for the rest of the school day and night.

Despite some extra time between classes, Jennifer Scapellati, an English and secondary education major and a volleyball player, is still stressed when it comes to making her fall schedule.

Scapellati said, “It’s quite stressful when you have education courses in the fall because I am in season. In my experience, my required education courses are offered only in the evening, which makes it inevitable to make sacrifices. Meaning, volleyball is the first thing that is cut.” Scapellati said that she does not feel that the scheduling is fair and suggests having “more flexible class-time options.”

Bean clarified that the department chairs decide which classes are offered, once the registrar sends each chair the class offerings from the previous year

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The registrar finds that preregistration has been running rather smoothly, especially since many students are registering online. The only problems appear to be with prerequisites or a professor ’s permission requirement in order to schedule a class.

The registrar ’s office still sees a number of students because of the “in-person” need for these changes. “Students still come, since they’re more comfortable coming in. We don’t have a problem with that,” Bean said.

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