Registrar's Office honored for keeping up with increased workload



Twylah Kragel (left), registrar, and Becky Stumme, assistant registrar, stand in front of the big board they use to schedule classes for fall and spring semesters. Karen Hehman (pictured below) is an assistant registrar for Waldorf who works at Columbia Southern University in Orange Beach, Ala.
(Jason Eck)



Karen Hehman

Increased enrollment at Waldorf College has brought extra work for departments campuswide, just ask the trio of employees in the Registrar’s Office.

For its efforts, the department was named the Department of the Month for December by the President’s Council. The group received the traveling trophy to which they will add their decorative touch.

The workload has increased in the Registrar's Office as Waldorf saw an increase of nearly 100 students from fall 2009 to fall 2010 as well as the addition of many students seeking online course offerings.


The Registrar’s Office consists of three employees, Twylah Kragel, registrar; Becky Stumme, assistant registrar; and Karen Hehman, assistant registrar. Kragel and Stumme work at Waldorf and Hehman works as a Waldorf employee at Columbia Southern University in Alabama.

The President’s Council members review nominations each month before selecting a winner. The following is the nomination e-mail submitted about the Registrar’s Office:

“The Registrar’s Office does a great job day in and day out and have been particularly busy with the increase in the number of students. They meet each returning student to make certain they are in the correct classes, do graduation audits, determine student-athlete eligibility, which has increased greatly, schedule all of our courses, complete evaluations for students transferring to Waldorf’s online programs, and much, much more.”
“Thank you Twylah, Becky and Karen for all that you do for Waldorf and our students,” Waldorf President Joe Manjone said.

The Department was honored recently at a luncheon at Shooters with Manjone.

“Serving the students is why we are here,” Kraglel said.

Kragel said the primary responsibilities of the Registrar’s Office are working with faculty members to create semester schedules, registering students, preparing transcripts and degree audits, determining athletic eligibility, meeting with prospective students and their parents, preparing grade reports, monitoring academic progress of students and preparing for graduation. Staff members also prepare other various reports and final exam schedules.

Kragel started working at Waldorf as activities director in 1982. She became assistant registrar in 1988 and registrar in 1993.

Stumme started at Waldorf in 1998 and has worked since then in the Registrar’s Office.

Hehman, who started with CSU in July 2008, handles registrar issues for Waldorf online students. As of Jan. 5, Waldorf has 126 online students, Hehman said. Hehman became a Waldorf employee in January 2009 after CSU purchased the school.