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. Videos of the Week: Explosive Cheating Scandal Illuminates Hidden Inequities of College Admissions – …
Transfer Student Pipelines are being considered by Andre Philips working in collaboration with Derek Kindle and Lo Klink. The cross-divisional team is finalizing an agreement with Dougherty Family College in Minnesota to provide tuition and fees to all transferring students who are Pell-eligible and/or public assistance recipients. With the success of this model, Andre is …
UW–Madison was randomly selected by the NCAA for a regular audit of the annual reports, eligibility certification processes and documentation. The most recent NCAA audit of UW–Madison was completed in 2007. In partnership with compliance staff in Athletics, Tristin Marotz and Ryan Allen, athletic academic eligibility specialists, have successfully completed phase 1 of the audit …
OSFA hosted four FAFSA Frenzy events in February in our new SSTAR Lab that served 85 students. These events have contributed directly to our increased FAFSA filing rates, as students that attend head back to their campus community and encourage others to file their FAFSA as well. FAFSA filing for all undergraduates is up 4.2% …
Dale Redmond, Katie Gagliano and Beth Warner have been collaborating with our IAP colleagues to test the integration between the IAP system supporting the administration of study abroad enrollment and credit articulation processes and SIS. The IAP system is being upgraded and the new version will go live on March 4th.
I am pleased to announce my team will release final admission decisions for the freshman cohort for fall 2019 March 20 starting around 7:00 p.m. We ask that you refrain from communicating anything regarding the release of admission decisions until after 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, so all applicants receive their email directing them …
As part of an ongoing partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Advising (OUA) and the RO to improve the integrity and accuracy of advisor assignment data within SIS, we distributed the results of two audits to the Academic Advising Policy Leaders (AAPL) for their review and correction: 1) A list of all students declared in …
Greg Offerman and Alyssa Geldernick have pulled together the Financial Wellness Working Group on campus with representation from the Center for Financial Security, SoHE, ASM, School of Business, Dean of Students Office, and UW Credit Union. One of the main topics the Working Group has focused on is how students seek and receive crisis loans …
The Veteran Services & Military Assistance Center hosted a resource event for new military-affiliated students on February 6th. Campus colleagues Lea Polizzi (Financial Aid), Shelby Knuth (Transfer Transitions), and Lori Christianson (Admissions) were available to answer student questions and provide information. Representatives from five local organizations, including the Madison Vet Center, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, and …
Campus use of Class Section Builder/CSB (the name given to UW–Madison’s implementation of the CourseLeaf CLSS module) was officially suspended on February 18. To support the campus transition back to relying solely on SIS to create and maintain the Schedule of Classes, five half-day SIS trainings were held throughout February, along with two open labs …