Category: Office of Student Financial Aid

Notes, highlights, and other updates from the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Focus on Bias: 5.14.19

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows. Video of the Week: Practical Diversity: Taking Inclusion from Theory to Practice TED Talk by …

Welcome Micaela Salas to OSFA

Micaela worked in the Office of Student Financial Aid as a FASTrack/BANNER Peer Advisor, but began her new position of Advisor on March 26. She completed her bachelor’s degree at UW–Madison in 2012, majoring in Social Welfare and American Indian Studies. During her time as an undergraduate student she worked as an information specialist for …

Welcome Emma Crawford to OSFA

Emma joined the Office of Student Financial Aid on March 26. She serves as a Financial Aid Advisor and works especially close with the School of Medicine and Public Health. She is passionate about financial wellness, college affordability, and access to higher education and is excited to be part of an office that encourages her …

Focus on Bias: 5.8.19

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows. Video of the Week: How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This …

Focus on Bias: 5.1.19

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows. Video of the Week: Children in Persistent Poverty – https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/low-income-working-families/projects/children-persistent-poverty. This video is about 6 …

Focus on Bias: 4.23.19

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows. Podcast of the Week: The Fifteenth Amendment a Civics Podcast – https://www.civics101podcast.org/civics-101-episodes/ep103. This podcast is …

Focus on Bias: 4.16.19

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows. Podcast of the Week: What’s The Breaking Point at the Border? From the 1A NPR …

Focus on Bias: 4.9.19

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows. Podcast of the Week: The Leesburg Stockade Girls a NPR StoryCorps Podcast – https://storycorps.org/podcast/the-leesburg-stockade-girls/. This …

OSFA Team Represents UW-Madison at Counselor Conference

Greg Offerman, Kari Temkin, and Alyssa Geldernick represented OSFA at the WSCA Conference hosted at Monona Terrace in Madison. Their presence at this event epitomizes the traction we’ve gained with supporting the school counselors in Wisconsin. The three members of the Advising and Outreach team talked to at least 500 counselors over the course of …

Congratulations to Financial Aid on a Record Number of FAFSAs!

Derek & the OSFA Team – Congratulations on the record number of FAFSAs you have received! This is great news! I applaud your efforts and the strategies that you’ve implemented to boost the number; clearly, they are paying off. Your efforts are providing more opportunities for students to attend the UW. I appreciate your creative …