Category: Updates

News and updates about the Division of Enrollment Management.

Focus on Bias: 07.2019

The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a monthly 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. Videos of the Month: Systemic Racism Explained – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ. This video takes about 4.5 minutes …

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 …

Focus on Bias: 6.26.19

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:  Overcoming Ableism: What You Don’t Know As An Able Bodied Person …

Focus on Bias: 6.20.19

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: Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom an On Second Though Podcast – …

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 …

Focus on Bias: 6.13.19

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: Witness History: Stonewall Riots – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0087s22. This podcast is nine minutes …

Focus on Bias: 6.7.19

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: My Identity is A SuperPower – Not an Obstacle TEDTalk by …

OSFA Creates Opportunities for Transfer Students

Summer 2019 will be the Office of Student Financial Aid’s third summer offering an instantaneous scholarship for any student who transferred in the Spring 2019 term. This scholarship does not require a FAFSA and the student simply needs to enroll in 1 credit in order to receive either $500 (Resident or Minnesota) or $1000 (Non-Resident …

Focus on Bias: 5.29.19

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 Racist Practice of Mispronouncing Names from KUOW – https://kuow.org/stories/a-rose-by-any-other-name-would-not-be-me. This …