Purdue implements new TRAX
system
By David Brunner
Staff
Writer
The School of Consumer and Family Sciences has
completed the training and installation segment of a student information
computer system, TRAX, which will consolidate the University's offices
and help them to operate more efficiently.
The TRAX system will help to provide all available
student data to faculty and staff who will use the integrated information
to better serve both new and old students.
Mary Nebold, assistant dean in the School of Consumer
and Family Sciences, said the school has used TRAX systems to help with
the recruitment process of many prospective students.
"TRAX is wonderful," Nebold said. "Especially with
the recruitment process. It helps us to be better informed on anything
from the student's high school transcripts to their hobbies and interests.
We now have at our disposal information that admissions and all other
offices have."
Teressa Eloff, director of undergraduate recruitment
in the School of Consumer and Family Sciences, said that there was a
good reason why the school was one of the first schools to use TRAX.
"We are a smaller school so it was easier for them
to get us going, and we like to be on the cutting edge of things," Eloff
said.
Cutting edge is the best way to describe the TRAX
system, said Joan Vaughn, director of TRAX.
"We looked at many other systems before coming
to this one, and we found that most of them just could not meet our
needs," Vaughn said. "This is a very high-class piece of equipment."
Employees in the Office of Admissions, the first
office to use the system, found that it easily met their needs.
Deb Schwartz, the associate director of admissions,
said that the system makes her job so easy that she cannot wait until
it replaces all systems on campus.
"It just saves time," Schwartz said. "It helps
make Purdue into one big family, makes my job a lot easier and helps
things run more smoothly all together."
Nebold said the system would also benefit students.
"There are going to be a lot less phone transfers
around here," she said.
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