“Allowing respondents to indicate their identities gives an organization a clearer picture of the people it serves and can be an indicator of an organization’s inclusivity of people across the sex, gender, and sexual orientation spectrums.” (Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, Recommendations: collecting information on sex, gender, and sexual orientation) “Allowing respondents to indicate their …
SOAR (Student Orientation, Advising and Registration) is one of the first ways students transition to UW–Madison. Hosted by the Center for First-Year Experience (CFYE), several offices across campus help with the transition process as consultants while students begin learning about academic advising, degree requirements, enrollment, and campus resources. The RO helped students, faculty and staff …
This summer the Office of the Registrar and UW–Madison Libraries worked closely together to implement a way to identify undergraduate students who are in fully-online programs to ensure they receive the appropriate, remotely-delivered, resources from the university library. UW–Madison Libraries currently offer remote delivery to all faculty, graduate students, and staff, but this will now …
As we are all aware, this year brought UW–Madison its second-consecutive, largest incoming class yet and it is exciting to have so many new Badgers on campus. With the excitement of a new, largest class there is also an increased workload in our units. The Office of the Registrar is very proud of its team …
Representatives from UW–Madison’s Office of Admissions and Recruitment and Office of the Registrar collaborated to host the annual UW-System Registrars and Admissions Officers hybrid meeting from Wednesday, July 27th to Thursday, July 28th. The meeting kicked off with special guest, the new UW-System President Jay O. Rothman, delivering a brief address on his vision for …
Katie Paar worked closely with Diana Maki, the Council on Academic Advising, and undergraduate academic dean’s offices to create a simple Qualtrics survey to replace a long-standing paper/pdf form. Katie Paar worked closely with Diana Maki, the Council on Academic Advising, and undergraduate academic dean’s offices to create a simple Qualtrics survey to replace a …
There is an extra “ding” in the elevator for RO Student Services team members now as they listen to the elevator go past the tenth floor and up to the eleventh. The Office of the Registrar (RO) is no longer dispersed across two floors and instead all team members are together on the top floor …
The Records and Enrollment team within the Office of the Registrar’s Student Services participated in a joint, collaborative meeting with their counterpart unit at CU Boulder. The meeting was held virtually on June 7th and was a space to share best practices that the units are utilizing, brainstorm ideas, and ask each other questions. The …
In 2016 UW–Madison entered a partnership with Leepfrog to produce an enhanced version of our catalogs – Guide. Branded as the “single source of truth,” Guide serves as the repository for undergraduate, graduate, and nondegree curricular information. Prior to using Leepfrog as UW–Madison’s catalog publication tool, the graduate and undergraduate catalogs were published every two …
The WI Idea Seminar is an annual program and tour put on by the Provost Office. Originally scheduled for 2020, the Bay Tour was postponed due to the pandemic and recently occurred from May 16 – 20, 2022. Started in 1985, this was the first time since its inception that the tour had to be …