Janet Marie Ansert, former deputy registrar and a longtime employee of Penn’s department of Student Registration & Financial Services (SRFS), passed away recently. She was 72.

Ms. Ansert joined Penn’s staff in 1970 as a scheduling assistant and ADP coordinator in the department of data processing. She continued to move upward at Penn, becoming the supervisor of scheduling in 1974. In 1978, she moved departments, to Student Information Services, to serve as the assistant registrar for academic records. She was promoted to deputy registrar in 2009, a position she held until retiring in 2016. After retiring, Ms. Ansert continued to work in SRFS, consulting on the NGSS Student Records Project.

Around campus, Ms. Ansert served as vice-chair of the Penn Professional Staff Assembly in 1996 (and continued to serve on PPSA committees for the next two decades). The same year, she joined Penn’s 25-Year Club. In 2003, she joined the Board of Governors of Penn’s University Club, a role in which she served until 2015. In the 2000s, she also served as a point person for the annual Penn’s Way campaign.

“Janet was a mentor and a friend to multiple generations of School and Program based registrars,” said Adam Sherr, Senior Advisor/Analyst in SRFS. “From her leadership in running Penn’s Center for University of Pennsylvania ID (CUPID), to the Fall New Student Orientation Center in Hutchinson Gym to her guidance with issues with student records and student systems, Janet was a steady influence and true Penn Citizen.”