Category: Office of Admissions & Recruitment

Notes, highlights, and other updates from the Office of Admissions & Recruitment.

What Does Deferred Enrollment Really Mean?

UW–Madison’s Deferred Enrollment Process allows incoming freshmen—and in unique situations, transfer students—an opportunity to take up to one year away from education to become involved in unique experiences and opportunities. For example, we see many students interested in enrichment programs abroad, junior hockey commitments, military obligations, volunteering opportunities, or other non-credit programs for a “gap …

Spring 2020 High School Counselor and College Advisor Events

The Office of Admissions and Recruitment will be hosting ten virtual counselor/advisor events in May and June to connect with high school counselors and two-year college advisors. We will host two high school counselor events specifically for Wisconsin high school counselors, one specifically for Illinois counselors, and one specifically for Minnesota counselors. The Office of …

Spring 2020 Admitted and Prospective Student Events

As we continue to admit students off of the wait list and work to finalize decisions for students who requested an extension to June 1, our admitted student programming has continued throughout May and will run throughout June and July. We will offer weekly Admitted Student Information Sessions along with weekly Next Steps Panels, which …

Please RSVP – DEM Holiday Lunch 12-16-19

You are invited to the DEM Holiday Lunch on Monday, December 16th beginning at 11:30 a.m. on the 9th floor in the Systems Area (Room 9401). Our lunch will be catered from Beef Butter BBQ.  A vegan option is also available.  Please RSVP by using this link https://go.wisc.edu/ff894a before December 10th with your food preference. …

Partners in Giving – Week Seven Update

The Partners in Giving Campaign is chugging along and we’d like to give everyone an update on how the campaign is going. Our goal this year is to increase participation across DEM to 50%. With just two weeks left of the campaign, we are currently at 38.41%. This is the highest percentage of participation we’ve …

Reminder: All expense reports must be submitted or deleted from GET by Friday, September 27

Hello All,   The Guided Expense Tool (GET) will be decommissioned on September 30th, 2019. Please clean-up your queue by submitting or deleting any outstanding reports in GET by end of day Friday, September 27, 2019. Attached you will find a document containing instructions on how to clean-up your GET queue. All unsubmitted expense reports will be …

New Date Announced for August DEM All Staff Meeting

Good Afternoon, The DEM All Staff Meeting has been rescheduled (due to a large number of staff who will be out).  Please mark your calendars for Monday, August 5 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. at Lowell Hall.  The meeting will be held in the Dining Room on the lower level.  We look forward to seeing …

50th Anniversary of Stonewall

Dear Colleagues, Today marks the 50th anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York that brought continued attention to the marginalization and discrimination – in all forms – of our LGTBQIA+ community. Although Stonewall was not the first such event of those taking a stand against the laws and actions that sought …

Welcome New Admissions Counselors

The Office of Admissions and Recruitment welcomed 3 new counselors on June 10! Gabrielle (Gabby) Knauer is coming to us from UW-Eau Claire, where she has just finished her B.A. in Organizational Communication. She worked in the UW-Eau Claire admissions office and has coordinated travel schedules, conducted school visits, and led on-campus tours and information …

Madison Metropolitan School District Outstanding Experiential Learning Host Award

The University of Wisconsin – Madison won the award for Outstanding Experiential Learning Host from the Madison Metropolitan School District. Key offices were the Office of Student Financial Aid, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment, and Campus and Visitor Relations. Special thanks to Leslie Orrantia, Justin Mumford, Todd Reck, Helena Mannig, Emily Henken, Josh Hanson, …