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. …
Legal Holidays—There are 9 days of paid legal holidays during the fiscal year July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. When a legal holiday falls on a Saturday, eligible team members are granted 8 hours of floating legal holiday to use any time during the current fiscal year (including prior to the date of the …
The WRS annual statement of benefits is a summary of a team member’s year-end retirement account information, including the effective rate of interest applied to the account. The statement includes your calendar-year earnings, retirement benefit projections, primary beneficiary designation(s) for your WRS account, and more. Team members can expect their WRS 2022 calendar year statements …
Stay up-to-date on the comings and goings of DEM Team Members. The following names are individuals with position updates or interim title changes that had a start date or last day on payroll in February. NEW HIRE/NEW POSITION Office of the Vice Provost Eric Weycker, HR Rotational Program [6 months placement within DEM] Office …
The Office of the Registrar is excited to announce that students now have the option to select whether they want their name in use or their legal name on their diploma. Previously, only legal name was allowed. However, most importantly, it is one small but meaningful step for a more inclusive experience for our students, …
In October 2019, the Office of the Registrar embarked on a project after attending the Big Ten Academic Alliance Registrar meeting and seeing what University of Minnesota was doing to warehouse uAchieve (DARS) data for use in NCAA eligibility checks. Members of our office returned to Madison with the questions, “What if we could see …
The Student Information System (SIS) is widely utilized across campus for a variety of roles. Previously, the Office of the Registrar (RO) hosted instructor-led trainings and maintained PDF documentation and resources for campus users on how to complete tasks in SIS. In June 2021 the RO began a project to evaluate SIS training needs across …
The Office of Admissions and Recruitment released Early Action application decisions Friday, January 27. The 40,000+ total decisions included nearly 15,000 admits, over 17,000 defer decisions, and just over 8,000 denies. As you may be getting questions about the process, our numbers, and even decisions of people you may know or work with, we want …
Stay up-to-date on the comings and goings of DEM Team Members. The following names are individuals with position updates or interim title changes that had a start date or last day on payroll in January. NEW HIRE/NEW POSITION Office of the Registrar Maya Benhamo (late-December), CES Specialist Kelly Higgins, Assistant Registrar—Reporting and Eligibility Katie …