100-Year Celebration of the Office of the Registrar
The Office of the Registrar celebrated 100 years at Kansas State University in 2013. Our office was created in 1913 with the appointment of Jessie McDowell Machir as the first Registrar by the Kansas Board of Regents. Since then, many technological advancements have occurred, our physical location has changed, and many different people have held the title of Registrar. Below is a sampling of the history.
Registrar Timeline
Jessie McDowell Machir appointed
1913
Mary Kimball appointed
1943
Eleanor Tibbetts appointed
1947
Richard Maloney appointed
1949
Eric Tebow appointed
1951
Ellsworth Gerritz appointed
1955
Donald Foster appointed
1980
Implementation of SIS (Student Information System)
1981
Implementation of KATS (Online enrollment)
1997
Implementation of DARS
2000
Monty E. Nielsen, Ed.D. appointed
2003
Implementation of KSIS (PeopleSoft)
2008
Implementation of the Online Catalog
2008
Implementation of Electronic Transcripts
2011
100-Year Celebration
2013
Kelley L. Brundage, Ed.D. appointed
2020
uAchieve/DARS updated to 5.0 and moved to cloud services
2024
Implentation of Laserfiche
2025