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Conference attendance is a first in many ways

This year, Ally attended her first National Student Employment Conference. The National Student Employment Association hosts a conference every year for student employment professionals across the country. This year’s conference was in Baltimore, Maryland. At the conference Ally was able to network with and meet folks from different institutions. Some topics Ally learned about were …

Registrars…Assemble

This year, on October 2 – 4, four members of the Office of the Registrar leadership team attended the annual Big Ten Registrars meeting at The Ohio State University. This gathering, like many over the past year, was the first in-person meeting in three years – for the past two years Northwestern hosted the meeting …

Engaging with the campus community through trainings

The Office of the Registrar continues to foster and grow its relationships with campus partners through learning opportunities and trainings. Our team has found that these frequent touch points not only provide those we work with necessary information to complete their work effectively, but also build relationships and strengthen partnerships. The Office of the Registrar …

Welcoming student employees back with a DEI-focused orientation

At the start of the semester Ally Bartelme, Client Services Specialist, coordinated the orientation of the Office of the Registrar student employee team. This orientation was held for all student employees, but especially for students returning to campus after the summer off and our newly hired students.  At the start of the semester Ally Bartelme, …

Expanding inclusive language with the new EApp

“Allowing respondents to indicate their identities gives an organization a clearer picture of the people it serves and can be an indicator of an organization’s inclusivity of people across the sex, gender, and sexual orientation spectrums.” (Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, Recommendations: collecting information on sex, gender, and sexual orientation) “Allowing respondents to indicate their …

Helping students transition to the university at SOAR

SOAR (Student Orientation, Advising and Registration) is one of the first ways students transition to UW–Madison. Hosted by the Center for First-Year Experience (CFYE), several offices across campus help with the transition process as consultants while students begin learning about academic advising, degree requirements, enrollment, and campus resources. The RO helped students, faculty and staff …

Registrar helps UW-Madison Libraries expand student services

This summer the Office of the Registrar and UW–Madison Libraries worked closely together to implement a way to identify undergraduate students who are in fully-online programs to ensure they receive the appropriate, remotely-delivered, resources from the university library. UW–Madison Libraries currently offer remote delivery to all faculty, graduate students, and staff, but this will now …

UW-Madison welcomes in a new class, and a little extra work

As we are all aware, this year brought UW–Madison its second-consecutive, largest incoming class yet and it is exciting to have so many new Badgers on campus. With the excitement of a new, largest class there is also an increased workload in our units. The Office of the Registrar is very proud of its team …

Madison hosts UW System Registrars and Admissions Officers Meeting

Representatives from UW–Madison’s Office of Admissions and Recruitment and Office of the Registrar collaborated to host the annual UW-System Registrars and Admissions Officers hybrid meeting from Wednesday, July 27th to Thursday, July 28th. The meeting kicked off with special guest, the new UW-System President Jay O. Rothman, delivering a brief address on his vision for …

Continuing the move into the digital age

Katie Paar worked closely with Diana Maki, the Council on Academic Advising, and undergraduate academic dean’s offices to create a simple Qualtrics survey to replace a long-standing paper/pdf form.  Katie Paar worked closely with Diana Maki, the Council on Academic Advising, and undergraduate academic dean’s offices to create a simple Qualtrics survey to replace a …