Office of Registration and Records

Office of Registration and Records

About Us

The Office of Registration and Records plays a crucial role in supporting the USML’s mission to form priests, deacons, and laity for leadership, ministry, and evangelization. Guided by clear vision, mission, and core values, the office responsibly manages academic records, ensures policy compliance, and provides high-quality services to students, faculty, alumni, and other stakeholders.

Office Vision, Mission, and Core Values

Amid the fast-paced and multifaceted changes shaping U.S. higher education today, the Office of Registration and Records adopts a flexible and agile approach to service, ensuring its practices stay in step with and advance the goals of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake.

The Office of Registration and Records is committed to responsibly managing academic records while promoting excellence and innovation in services that support the formation of priests, deacons, and laity. It aims to maintain a system based on integrity and truth, staying flexible to adapt to the Church’s evolving needs and thereby enhancing leadership, ministry, and evangelization in today’s world.

The Office of Registration and Records is dedicated to supporting the University’s mission by responsibly and reliably managing academic records and ensuring compliance with both internal and external educational policies. Grounded in lasting principles and adaptable to a changing world, it helps form priests, deacons, and laity for effective leadership, ministry, and evangelization.

To achieve this mission, the office upholds the following Core Values:

Protects academic records with accuracy, honesty, and accountability, ensuring their reliability as a foundation for trust and mission.

Provides transparent, efficient, and compassionate services that directly support the University’s mission of forming leaders for ministry and evangelization.

Remains rooted in enduring values of truth, faithfulness, and church tradition, seeing records as essential tools in preserving the University’s identity and witness.

Embraces new technologies and evolving practices to improve services and adapt to the changing needs of the Church while staying rooted in timeless principles.

Build strong relationships with faculty, staff, students, and all stakeholders, promoting a sense of unity in advancing the mission of formation.

Strives for accuracy, clarity, and ongoing improvement in its work, ensuring that all services meet the highest standards of professionalism.

Respects each person’s dignity by maintaining confidentiality of necessary information, treating everyone with respect and care, and adhering to FERPA, HIPAA, and internal and external policies.

Services

For students and faculty, we manage all academic and enrollment processes, including scheduling, registration, and reporting. We also handle degree verifications for employers and transcript requests for alumni.

All these services are provided in accordance with standards from the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), of which the university is a member. The office, also guided by the Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), follows the specific retention policies outlined in AACRAO’s 2010 guide.

Contact

University of Saint Mary of the Lake-Mundelein Seminary
Office of Registration and Records
1000 East Maple Avenue
Mundelein, IL 60060

Building 500P – 102

Phone: (847) 970-4803
Fax: (847) 932-3305
Email: registrar@usml.edu