As a result of the implementation of the Title and Total Compensation (TTC) Project on November 7, 2021, academic staff, university staff, and limited appointees will have updated job titles and new position descriptions. UW–Madison will also have a market-informed title and salary structure to attract, recruit, and retain a highly qualified workforce. Please refer …
Business Services recently updated the tips sheets for creating, modifying, and submitting expense reports in the Shared Financial System (SFS). The tip sheets can be found here: https://www.wisconsin.edu/travel/2021/09/14/how-to-create-modify-and-resubmit-an-expense-reimbursement-in-e-reimbursement/ They also created a new E-Reimbursement FAQ. The complete list of questions can be found here: https://www.wisconsin.edu/travel/2021/09/14/faqs-e-reimbursement-traveler-expense-report/ Please work with your office approvers or reach out to …
Annual Benefits Enrollment (ABE) is an annual opportunity for eligible team members to enroll in or make changes to most benefit plans for the upcoming calendar year, effective January 1, 2022. ABE takes place from September 27 through October 22, 2021. This is the only time you can make changes to certain benefits without having …
Office of Admissions and Recruitment Please join OAR in welcoming two new team members to the Office of Admissions & Recruitment. Megan Thompson, Admissions Counselor Megan joined our team on Monday, October 18. She earned a BA in Urban Studies with a minor in Educational Studies from Barnard College and an MEd from the Harvard …
October 18-22 is National Transfer Student Week (NTSW). NTSW is a week dedicated to celebrating transfer students and the diversity they add to our campus community! Our OAR Communications & Marketing team will be promoting options for transfer students and NSTW on our @uwmadisonadmissions Instagram. Encourage students to check out the transfer.wisc.edu website for more information …
John Ford considers himself still relatively new to DEM (November 2019) and yet he continues to be impressed by the ability of his colleagues, coworkers and partners to address urgent needs of campus. This academic year has been unusually disruptive and many areas in DEM have needed to focus resources on immediate changes related to …
The start of the fall semester brought a new policy to help students dealing with medical issues needing to take time away from the university. The new Medical Withdrawal Policy, approved by UW System in January 2021, was implemented at UW–Madison on September 1st. This new policy brings more transparency and visibility about medical withdrawals …
This fall semester UW System President Thompson charged universities to have 75% of their class sections in-person, giving section modality more of a spotlight across the system and state than in any other term prior to the pandemic. UW–Madison surpassed this goal and currently has 90% of our class sections in-person. This fall semester UW …
On September 18, 2021 the university held its non-commencement, commencement at Camp Randall, exactly 497 days since the Class of 2020 was supposed to celebrate. This in-person event followed the official virtual commencement ceremonies and invited students from spring 2020, summer 2020, and fall 2020 who were unable to have an in-person ceremony. More of …
International students faced a number of challenges going into the fall 2021 semester. Many international students expressed concerns to International Student Services (ISS) related to the increase in COVID variant cases around the world, as well as concerns regarding access to vaccines, U.S. consulates, visa processing time, and flight cancellations. International students faced a number …