The campus Student Information System (SIS) – or Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions – will be down beginning July 1st at 5:00PM for an upgrade to PeopleTools version 8.60, with a target of Wednesday, July 5 10:00 p.m. for SIS to be available again to all users. During this outage period, users, including students, will not …
In July 2020, Transferology replaced UW Systems’ (UWS) homegrown Transfer Information System (TIS). UW System purchased Transferlolgy as a web-based tool to share transfer credit data among all public colleges and universities in the state and to recruit students from across the country. TIS was limited to sharing freshman/sophomore-level courses and only updated six times …
Do you use Jira or Confluence as part of your job or project tracking? Both platforms will no longer be available after January 31, 2025. Currently, Jira and Confluence are both maintained by DoIT using on-premise servers, which will no longer be an option due to large pricing increases. All users will need to migrate …
During the week of March 27th many members of the Office of the Registrar team attended the annual AACRAO (American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Offices) meeting. The AACRAO Annual Meeting is an opportunity to learn, network, and advance higher education. During the week of March 27th many members of the Office of the …
At the last American Association of University’s Registrars meeting there were a series of discussions focused around professional development, succession planning, and providing growth opportunities to create a leadership pipeline amongst Deputy/Senior/Associate Registrar positions. At the last American Association of University’s Registrars meeting there were a series of discussions focused around professional development, succession planning, …
The Credit Evaluation Services (CES) Team automated the process of adding transcript text notes to the credit evaluation, which tell transfer applicants what placement tests to take after they are admitted. Tracy Mores, Scott Golueke, and Greg Mehlert developed logic that the Student Information System (SIS) uses to tell whether or not a student needs …
Recently there were changes made to the processing of transfer credit by the Office of the Registrar’s Credit Evaluation Services team. Students transferring credits from institutions on a different academic calendar or within a different educational system (e.g. quarter and international institutions) will have their credits converted to semester hours as exact credit values, using …
Traveling to a conference to represent the Registrar’s Office? Know before you go! This quick guide to conference travel policies will help you understand some of the policies and requirements for UW–Madison travelers so ensure you get reimbursed for all personal funds spent. You can access all UW travel policies in full on the Business …
Recently the University Council tasked campus partners to evaluate their concern that students with less opportunity for external test credits in their high schools are systematically disadvantaged in the assignment of enrollment appointments and have less opportunity for enrollment in their preferred courses and at their preferred days/times. So, a group was formed and got …
A few years ago, UW–Madison implemented CourseLeaf’s CAT and CIM, which we refer to as Lumen, to manage our course and program additions, changes, and discontinuations. Lumen is managed by the Office of the Registrar along with the Data Academic Planning and Institutional Research Office. Course and program proposals have a lot of moving parts. …