What is a Registrar?

Donald answers the question as to what exactly is a "Registrar"? Is it someone who registers things? Nope! It's much more cool than that! Registrars are your go-to people for any help you need with academic issues at the University of Toronto. Remember to subscribe to get notices of new videos sent directly to you! If you can't watch the video, the transcript is below: I'm Donald Boere, the registrar of Innis College, one of the seven college registrars in the Faculty of Arts and Science and you're watching FAStanswers. This episode: What is a Registrar? Sometimes being a student can come with challenges, and a little help can go a long way. Your registrar's office is here to help. Whether it's coming up with strategies for choosing courses and programs, ironing out academic, financial and administrative details of registration, adjusting to new learning styles, juggling personal and work priorities with academic commitments, or wondering what to do with your degree, your registrar's office is a reliable first stop for information and advice. Online resources -- such as FAStanswers -- can certainly help. So can mentors, specialized services and other students. But if you're feeling restless about any matter of being a student, your registrar's office is a good first point of contact. We provide you with accurate and sound information and advice in an atmosphere of trust, confidentiality and comfort. It's what we do. And we take our accountability to you very seriously. We're custodians of a lot of information about registration and enrolment, fees and funding, rules and regulations, petitions and appeals, and the first year experience right through to graduation and beyond. Whether it's by phone or email or in person, when you come to us with questions, we can help you connect to answers, reflect on options, project solutions, and create opportunities to excel. So if you're looking for help to solve a personal or academic difficulty, or to overcome a financial bind, or if you're looking to formulate or adjust your short- or long-term academic goals, or if you're looking to apply your academic learning outside the classroom, with the accumulated experience of student matters and of the Faculty of Arts and Science, we can offer you objective, personalized advice and help you explore options. And there are dividends. For us, we take what we learn from talking with individual students to constantly improve the experience for all students. The dividend we often see for students is your desire to give something back, whether it's a desire to be a note-taker with Accessibility Services, or mentor other students, or even help create something like FAStanswers. So if you're feeling restless about any aspect of your university experience, reach out to your college registrar's office. Even if you're not sure who to go to with an issue, consider us your reliable first stop. Thanks for watching. You can always tweet at us at FAStanswers. And remember to subscribe to this channel to get notices of upcoming videos.