Registrar and Director of Academic Records

Role Overview The Registrar & Director of Academic Records is the senior institutional leader accountable for the design, construction, and ongoing integrity of every registrar function at Meritus College, from the student information system and academic catalog to degree audit, conferral, transfer credit, FERPA administration, and accreditation-facing reporting. This is a founding role in the literal sense. There is no legacy SIS configuration to maintain, no catalog to reprint, no degree audit to run, no policy manual to inherit. There is a first cohort, an accreditation timeline, a competency-based academic model that does not map cleanly onto conventional registrar practice, and a blank page. The Registrar decides and then documents, defends, and operationalizes how academic progress at Meritus College is measured, recorded, awarded, and reported. The role carries three horizons simultaneously: keeping the current cohort running cleanly, building infrastructure that will hold at ten times the enrollment, and producing the evidence base that will withstand accreditation and federal scrutiny. The Registrar supports the college leadership team, and is the institution’s definitive authority on the student record. What makes this role unusual Full functional ownership: All registrar functions. The person in this seat sets the standard rather than administering someone else’s. Design authority, not just execution authority: The policies, definitions, calendars, and data str