2024-2025 Annual Report
The Office of the Registrar and Curriculum Management, part of the Division of Academic Affairs, is dedicated to advancing and supporting accessible education for all. As an innovative university partner, the Office of the Registrar provides a clear path for student services. Its mission is to uphold Oregon State’s integrity by managing enrollment, instructional services, academic history, and supporting students, faculty, and staff across all campuses. The Office values professionalism, innovation, excellence, respect, and collaboration. Staff members support student records and operations, veteran and NCAA compliance, degree completion, student data and access, articulation compliance, catalog, curriculum, accreditation, and scheduling, and are involved in many university-wide projects.
The Office of the Registrar is managed by
- The Associate Vice Provost & University Registrar
- Associate Registrars
- Assistant Registrars
The department is composed of units including
- Academic Records and Registration
- Academic Operations
- VA & Military Compliance, Degree Completion
- Course Articulations
- Scheduling and Catalog
- NCAA Compliance
- Projects & Communications Technical Team
The Office of Curriculum Management is managed by
- The Associate Vice Provost & University Registrar
- Operations Manager
and is composed of
- Curriculum and Compliance units.
Goals & strategic plan
Goal 1: Provide timely and accurate data to equip students, faculty, and staff with information they need to be successful.
Goal 2: Provide optimal processes, tools, and services to students, staff, and faculty.
Goal 3: Evaluate systems and engage stakeholders to identify and remove barriers for students so that every student graduates.
Goal 4: Enhance and safeguard institutional integrity to elevate the value and reputation of Oregon State University.
In addition to ensuring our projects meet the internal goals of the Offices of the Registrar and Curriculum Management, projects are evaluated based on their enhancements to the OSU Strategic Plan. Our Offices’ projects support one or more of these four Prosperity Widely Shared (PWS) targets:
- Increase six-year graduation rate to 80 percent
- Equalize six-year graduation rates
- Increase online-only enrollment to 30,000
- Increase OSU-Cascades enrollment to 2,200
PWS tactics that Offices of the Registrar and Curriculum Management projects and operations support include:
- Set and track academic unit targets for retention and graduation and reward success
- Aim to equalize rates of retention and graduation by race and ethnicity
- Launch a signature new-student onboarding experience, including reformed first-year advising
- Dedicated attention to transfer and online students
- Strengthen partnerships with other higher education institutions, including community colleges, to create smoother pathways into Oregon State’s academic programs
- Incentivize and support more undergraduate students to attend full-time
- Play a critical role in serving needs of those pursing degrees and building new skills over their careers
- Address state and national workforce requirements
- Expand online programs to offer educational opportunities to more students, remain competitive, and fuel investments in student success, faculty excellence and research
- Implement an integrated college and university-level strategy to more than double online-only enrollment
- Implement a college and university growth strategy for OSU-Cascades
- Implement a strategy for Corvallis campus enrollment
- Grow professional graduate program offerings
Accomplishements
Completed projects from 2024-2025
- Common Course Numbering
- Enhanced Hold Placement and Removal
- Beaver Hub (CRM) for university
- FERPA 50th Anniversary
- General Education Reform
Active projects from 2024-2025
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Student Data Access Policy
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Registration Revamp
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Ecampus Course Restrictions
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Financial Readiness & Success
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Change of Program
- Drupal 10 Transition
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Academic Calendar Streamlining & Accessibility
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Enhanced Holds Phase II
Other university partner projects
By the numbers
Graduation
8,140
Degrees awarded
7,541
Diplomas distributed (92% request rate)
72
Microcredentials offered: 65 undergraduate, 7 graduate
882
Microcredentials awarded
8,096
Degree verifications
Official transcripts
29,939
Official transcripts issued
Information services
12,273
Phone calls answered to the main phone line
Change of programs
18,060
Change of Program requests processed
Forms processed
17,387
Forms processed by the Office of the Registrar Records, Degree Completion and Veteran teams
Certifications
5,535
Certifications for 2,090 students using VA education benefits
1,130
Federal Tuition Assistance course authorizations, supporting over 265 students
2,296
Continuing eligibility certifications for NCAA student-athletes
65
Incoming transfer athlete student eligibility certifications
FERPA training & data access
4,588
Online FERPA trainings completed
314
Security access requests processed
Course articulations
47,883
Courses articulated for 5,650 transfer students
2,100
Reevaluation requests processed
Scheduling
29,357
Course sections scheduled - all campuses
7,174
Events requested and/or scheduled through the 25Live scheduling software
Curriculum management
Courses*
1,315
Course updates
419
New courses
700
Course changes (449 full proposals and 251 expedited)
123
Terminations
73
Miscellaneous
91
Miscellaneous proposals (statement of intent, courses not taught, microcredentials)
19
Courses implemented with Common Course Numbering
Programs*
451
Program updates
349
Curricular changes, excluding changes associated with Common Course Numbering
36
New programs (4 majors, 4 certificates, 17 options, 11 minors)
46
Suspended/terminated programs (3 certificates, 3 majors, 26 options, 14 minors)
19
Program renames (8 majors, 11 minors)
1
Program moving units
*These numbers increased significantly this year due to Core Education implementation.