Category: Office of Admissions & Recruitment

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

Takeaways from AACRAO 2025

DEM team members traded one isthmus for another as they headed to Seattle for AACRAO’s 2025 Annual Meeting.

New tool automates college transcript processing at UW–Madison

A new tool is helping the University of Wisconsin–Madison review and process students’ college transcripts more efficiently.

A note from André Phillips: Yielding brilliant Badgers is a team effort

Yield—the number of admitted students who enroll—is much more than a number. Yield efforts are about showing students that UW–Madison is where they belong. In OAR, this means high-touch outreach, strategic communications, answering questions, processing transcripts, and hosting events that help students take their next steps as #FutureBadgers.  The OAR does an outstanding job with …

DEM lends a helping hand to support students affected by California wildfires

As wildfires continue to burn across portions of southern California, team members from across the Division of Enrollment Management are working to support students affected by the disasters.

Your DEM News gets a new look for 2025!

As we begin 2025, you’ll notice the monthly Your DEM News email looks a bit different. We have made a number of changes to ensure this newsletter aligns with UW–Madison accessibility and brand standards. Most notably, the font is now larger and easier to read on smaller devices. We’ve also updated the formatting to make …

DEM team shares lessons around the bonfire at Camp WACRAO 🏕️

More than two dozen UW-Madison staff members trekked to Pewaukee from Nov. 6-8 for “Camp WACRAO.”

OAR Fall Event Successes

This fall, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment hosted a number of on-campus events including our largest one to date. The fall Experience Wisconsin Open House took place on Friday, October 18, and was the largest on-campus event OAR has hosted to date, with 1,551 students and guests. Experience Wisconsin Open House is a full-day …

OAR Attends NACAC in LA

This September, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment had the opportunity to represent DEM and UW–Madison at the National Conference for the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in Los Angeles, California. Several of our functional areas were able to meet new colleagues, see old coworkers, and hear from a variety of speakers from …

Meet the 8th Cohort of King-Morgridge Scholars

The Global Initiatives Team in the Office of Admissions & Recruitment helped welcome the newest cohort of King-Morgridge Scholars to campus this August. This group of six students, representing four different world regions, was selected from the most competitive pool to date, with over 800 scholarship applications submitted through WiSH. Members of the Global Initiatives …

Work group shares recommendations on aligning systems with campus guidelines on using legal sex, gender

A work group consisting of members of the Office of Admissions and Recruitment, the Office of the Registrar, the Graduate School, and the Division of Information Technology has drafted its recommendations on how to align the many campus tools that use student data with updated institutional guidelines on legal sex and gender.