The Office of the University Registrar administers the registration process, provides faculty with class enrollment information, records student grades, and maintains student academic records. This office also publishes the Undergraduate and Graduate Records, the official description of courses, degree programs, and academic requirements of the various schools. The University registrar is responsible to the vice president and provost for maintaining suitable liaison with the school faculties as they establish and modify the educational program by faculty action.

After departments and schools determine what courses are to be taught, the Office of the University Registrar assigns classroom space and prepares the Course Offering Directory. This office is responsible for final scheduling and assignment of unused classrooms: any rescheduling of classrooms requires its approval. An individual faculty member may not change the time or meeting place of a class without approval of the appropriate chair or dean and the University registrar.

The grades and symbols used to record academic progress are established by the Faculty Senate. Each school, however, determines which individual grades and symbols it will use. Students will be graded according to the grading system of the school in which they are registered, not according to the grading system of the school through which the course is taught. The grading practices of each school are given in the Undergraduate and Graduate Records.

Faculty are responsible for fair grading practices and prompt submission of grades through their departments and schools to the University registrar. No grade may be changed after it is submitted to the University registrar without the approval of the school dean. Only errors of calculation or transcription are authorized justifications for a change of grade.

The graduate professional schools set their own examination schedules, otherwise the examination schedule is set by the University registrar, and except for scheduling makeup exams, faculty are not permitted to alter the time of a scheduled examination.