Meet the Team
The Registrar's Office is charged with communicating and ensuring adherence to academic policy, preserving academic integrity and protecting the security of academic records. We aspire to maintain the highest levels of ethical behavior, professionalism and service and work collaboratively with students to meet their needs. The Registrar’s Office is dedicated to providing exemplary customer service to current students, alumni and future students in an effort to help them achieve their academic goals at WPI.
Email: smiles@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4180
As University Registrar, Sarah leads a team of professionals dedicated to supporting the educational goals of WPI by upholding academic policy and the integrity of student information, while striving to provide excellent customer service to all members of the WPI community. After ten years in various roles within higher education, she joined WPI in February 2014 and became University Registrar in June 2016. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Towson University and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College.
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Email: clb@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6002
As the Academic Scheduler, Cathy is responsible for course implementation and maintenance, along with academic space scheduling. She works closely with academic affairs and the academic departments. Cathy started working at WPI in 2000 and joined the Registrar’s Office in the Fall of 2013. Outside of work, she enjoys gardening, crafting, and spending time with her family.
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Email: mkborowski@wpi.edu
Michelle joined the WPI community in the Summer of 2018, and began in Academic Scheduling in August of 2019. As Assistant Registrar, she enjoys the opportunity to work with faculty and staff throughout campus in all matters of course scheduling and allocation of academic space. Michelle earned both her Undergraduate and Graduate degrees in Art History and her interests include writing, art, music, epic poetry, and commedia dell'arte theater. She also teaches as an Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Arts and as an Affiliate in WPI’s CWB (Center for ...
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Email: smdenette@wpi.edu
Susan joined WPI's Registrar's Office in September of 2013. In her role supporting the graduate program, she assists with the degree clearing process for the three conferral dates. She also processes graduate student project registrations and maintains record management for the graduate students, which includes those in the BS/MS program, along with managing the credit conversion report for both the undergraduate and graduate students. Susan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Nichols College.
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Email: kgilbert2@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6653
Katie Joined WPI’s Registrar’s Office in March of 2012. In her role as Senior Associate Registrar, she oversees all aspects of systems used by the office, including Workday, reporting tools and implementations of new applications. She also evaluates and implements processes and procedures to support the mission of WPI.
view profileEmail: plariviere@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6756
Email: jmccarthy@wpi.edu
Jennifer joined WPI’s Registrar’s Office in July of 2008. As an Associate Registrar, she leads the undergraduate and graduate degree clearance teams in reviewing students' degree requirements as they apply for graduation for the May, August and December conferral dates. In addition, Jennifer reviews undergraduate candidates for all three conferral dates to ensure that they have fulfilled their specific BA/BS degree requirements. She also builds Academic Progress Reports (APRs) in Workday for all newly developed undergraduate programs at WPI and maintains the APRs for the existing undergraduate ...
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Email: rfparedes@wpi.edu
Rhiannon joined WPI in February of 2016. As Assistant Registrar of Undergraduate Records, she is charged with reviewing degree requirements for undergraduate students in May, August and December. She works closely with faculty and departments to ensure degree requirements are accurate and up to date within Workday. She assists with all curriculum changes such as minors, majors, and concentrations as well as substitutions. Rhiannon is charged with the posting of AP and IB scores as well as transfer credits for current and matriculating WPI students. She also completes registrations for students ...
view profileEmail: jrooney1@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5834
Jay joined WPI's Registrar's Office in February of 2022. In his role he assists with reviewing degree requirements of graduate students applying for graduation. Jay oversees the posting of transfer credit requests for graduate students. He also assists with managing the academic progress reports for all graduate programs. Jay received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Keene State College and his Master of Education in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Salem State University.
view profileEmail: esgariglia@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4920