Thank You and Meet the New Class of 2025

Congratulations to everyone in the Division for helping recruit, admit, award, and enroll the largest class in UW history. As we prepare for a new application cycle, take a moment to meet the class of 2025. Highlights from the UW–Madison press release include: The freshman class includes 8,465 students and is the largest in UW …

Welcoming New Team Members – September

Office of Admissions and Recruitment Please join OAR in welcoming Hyewon Chung – our newest Operations Team member. Hyewon joined the team last Wednesday, September 8th. Hyewon is originally from southern California, and moved to Madison a few years ago. She is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and earned a bachelor of …

OSFA’s Using #Hashtags

The first question some of you might be asking yourself is what is a hashtag? In its simplest form, it’s a word or phrase that is preceded by the pound (#) symbol. But why it’s actually used is to serve as indicator that the piece of content relates to a specific topic or is part …

DEM Annual Report 2021

The 2020-21 DEM Annual Report is out!  Want to see highlights of what we accomplished together this past year? The 2020-21 DEM Annual Report is out!  Want to see highlights of what we accomplished together this past year?

Face Covering De-Escalation Training

Recently DEM invited UWPD Community Officers Jake Lepper and Barrett Erwin to train the DEM Team on face covering de-escalation. Jake and Barrett talked about general tips for interacting with the public, your safety, and how to react if a person becomes hostile. Thank you to everyone who attended! You can still view the training …

Putting the Finesse in Cisco Finesse

The Office of the Registrar Student Services team spent the summer months transitioning our phone response technology to Cisco Finesse. Following in the footsteps of the Office of Admissions, the DoIT Help Desk, the Office of Student Financial Aid and the Bursar’s Office, who have also implemented this technology, we were very excited to utilize …

Return to In Person Services

On August 2, 2021, the Office of Student Financial Aid returned to offering in-person services from 8:00am-4:00pm Monday through Friday.  While services at the start of the month were slow, they quickly changed with the start of the semester approaching.  Over the course of August, the front lines team answered over 1,700 emails and over …

OSFA/AmeriCorps VISTA Partnership

Welcome, Satiya Samlal! The Office of Student Financial Aid is proud to report that we applied and have been chosen by Serve Wisconsin as one of 20 sites across the state of Wisconsin to host an AmeriCorps VISTAmember. Satiya Samlal is serving in this new role full time for a year, with a focus on …

Adding Students to the RO Team and Improving Their Training

This has been an exciting semester for the RO Student Services team as we have doubled our student employee team. In an effort to support the expansion of the student services scope, we needed to increase our student staff. This Fall, student employees will be trained on student records & enrollment, credit evaluation services, and …

Hires and Departures – August

Stay up-to-date on the coming and going of DEM Team Members. The following names are individuals with position updates or interim title changes that had a start date or last day on payroll during August.   NEW HIRE/NEW POSITION Office of Admissions and Recruitment Joi Adams, Admissions Counselor, African American Outreach & Recruitment Office of …