Category: Office of the Registrar

Notes, highlights, and other updates from the Office of the Registrar.

October Outreach – Curricular & Enrollment Event

On October 24, Outreach Specialists Kate Kurek (CAMS) and Katie Paar (Student Services) collaborated to host the Fall 2019 Curricular and Enrollment Representative Event. Over 100 curricular and enrollment staff from across campus came together to learn about relevant current and future initiatives. Topics covered included the transition to 25Live Pro, an updated version of …

Spring 2020 Schedule of Classes released

The Spring 2020 Schedule of Classes was released on October 18. At the time of release, the schedule included 23,042 class sections across 4,815 courses. Also at this time, 17 subject listings completed requisite amnesty and enforced course catalog requisites for all courses beginning in Spring 2020.

October Outreach – Big Ten Registrar’s meeting

Katie Block, Beth Warner, Jeff Kirschling, Eric MacKay and Will Lipske attended the Big Ten Academic Alliance Registrars’ Conference from October 13-15, 2019 in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Representatives from Big Ten institutions engaged in spirited conversation around topics ranging from micro-credentials to transfer credit services to degree audit. Through this network, the RO is excited …

Assistant Registrar for Transfer Credit Services

Scott Golueke will be the first Assistant Registrar for Transfer Credit Services for this new team and will begin in late October. Scott has worked as the Course Specialist in the Office of the Registrar for the few years but also brings 10+ years of experience in transfer credit processing when he worked in the …

L&S New Advisor Training Session by Katie Paar

At the invitation of Liane Kosaki, Director of L&S Academic Advising Services, Katie Paar conducted a session of the L&S New Advisor Training in October. Katie spent the 90-minute session educating 20 new advisors about the ways in which the Office of Registrar interacts with and supports their work. Topics included transcripts, certifications, enrollment, grade …

RO welcomes Jeff Kirschling

Welcome to our new Associate Registrar of Compliance, Reporting and Eligibility Services (CRES), Jeff Kirschling. Jeff Kirschling began his role as the Associate Registrar of Compliance, Reporting and Eligibility Services (CRES) in late September 2019. Jeff possesses 20+ years of experience in registration and records management across the UW System, most recently at UW-Superior where …

Reminder: All expense reports must be submitted or deleted from GET by Friday, September 27

Hello All,   The Guided Expense Tool (GET) will be decommissioned on September 30th, 2019. Please clean-up your queue by submitting or deleting any outstanding reports in GET by end of day Friday, September 27, 2019. Attached you will find a document containing instructions on how to clean-up your GET queue. All unsubmitted expense reports will be …

RO welcomes Eric MacKay!

Eric MacKay joined the Office of the Registrar on July 29, 2019 as Assistant Registrar for Degree Audit and Academic Programs. Eric was previously the Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Human Ecology. Prior to that role, he served as a graduate program coordinator and residence life coordinator at UW–Madison and as an …

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 …