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Cutting student staff positions is putting HSU’s registrar office in hot water as the paper work begins to pile up.
The registrar processes degree audit reports, degree contracts and provides many other student services such as graduation and admissions counseling. Student staff members of the registrar’s office are payed anywhere from $8 to $9.50 an hour depending on experience. With the loss of this income, some students will face hard times.
Hilary Dashiell, the registrar said, “We have been trying to find ways to make it easier to process this amount of information by keeping current student employees from being laid off in May.”
“Even now our office does not have enough student help to cover the work load. With less help next semester and an even higher volume of work to be done, it will be very difficult to keep up,” said Dashiell.
Dashiell said,”Our shrinking student staff has caused professional staff to have to cover student tasks. As a result, there has been a lag in posting student degrees. This is why some December diplomas just went out.”
Amanda Moore, a student employee at the registrar’s office, said, “Everyone at the registrar has been extremely helpful, especially Hillary Dashiell, in trying to find us jobs on campus.”
Moore said, “I understand the reason for the layoffs. It makes sense that they would see fit to lay off student assistants first. However, from the administrators and people within our office that I have spoken to, it will be very difficult to keep up with the paperwork, filing and all the little tasks that people do not think about with this cut.”
Dashiell said the office will probably not replace graduating students or the credential analyst position. The credential analyst makes sure that students in the credential program have met the requirements, evaluates transfer students for admission, general admission and processes graduation requirements for all students.
Dashiell said, “With the removal of this position it will greatly slow the admission of transfer students and incoming freshmen, as well as slow the graduation process.”
If you expect to graduate this semester, it may take a while to get your diploma. If you want employment that is not through work-study on campus, it is slim pickings for all.
Head of public relations Paul Mann shed some light on the dim outlook. He said, “The CSU may fair better in the 2010 state budget, though what will happen is uncertain until September when the budget is passed. I’m optimistic.”
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