subject: Keeping Track of All Students and Faculty on Campus [print this page] Keeping Track of All Students and Faculty on Campus
Nowadays, colleges and universities seem to be filled to the brim with brand new freshman who are straight out of high school as well as those adults who may have taken a couple of years to a couple of decades off from college as well as those who have never gone to college before but who are now in a position as an older person to go back and get the degree of their dreams. That said, someone has to be responsible for keeping track of all of these students as well as the faculty and staff members who serve them. Welcome, college administrators.
College administrators often wear different hats-all in an effort to keep things at a university running as smoothly as possible. But primarily, university administration is in charge of grant management as well as the management of other financial resources. Each university is slightly different, and at some colleges, grant management might be the responsibility of college accountants, etc. However, the point to be made here is that without some sort of grant management system in place, there would be total chaos at colleges and universities across the country as well as the world.
Especially for those of us who were fortunate enough to earn scholarships or work with some of the best professors at some of the top universities, earning requested grant funds in order to conduct research may have seemed like a breeze. All you seemed to have to do is simply request the money and there it was in a nice neat little package. A final note of thanks on your thesis research, and the rest is history...or so you would like to believe. However, quite a bit of organization and management goes into making that grant available to you as well as countless other students and faculty members.
Using research management systems via various types of university accounting software, college administrators are able to keep track of funds that are going out as well as funds that are coming in. This allows a college to stay within a certain budget while providing a smooth, enriching educational experience for everyone. If it wasn't for the advance of technology and the current grant tracking/accounting software that is made available to universities, students and faculties wouldn't have nearly as many opportunities for growth as they currently have available to them.
