OAR All Team Retreat: Reimagining Our Work: Teamwork and Wellness

On Monday, August 17, the entire Office of Admissions & Recruitment professional staff came together for our annual retreat. It was offered in a virtual format for the first time. This year’s programming was centered around the theme: Reimagining Our Work: Teamwork and Wellness. Our goals were building community, engaging in shared learning that contributes …

Welcoming New Team Members – August!

With the essential nature of our work, the Division of Enrollment Management has been able to continue to add new members to our teams and units. We are excited about the expertise, insight, and experiences these individuals will bring to their new roles. Please join us in welcoming our newest team members! With the essential …

Disbursing Financial Aid – How Do Students Get Their $$? Spring 2022 Update

We joke that it happens auto-magically, but that’s not totally untrue.  We’ll describe it in two ways. First – what do students need to know? Financial aid disburses about a week before classes begin each semester.  Students will start to see their spring semester financial aid apply to their student account (tuition, fees, on-campus housing …

Hello from Helen Faith!

Hello to the Division of Enrollment Management! I am thrilled to join your team at UW–Madison. I’ve had the privilege of meeting many of you virtually in the past two weeks, and I’m grateful for your warm welcome.  My family and I are preparing for our upcoming move, and plan to hit the road in …

Fall Service Plans

As DEM begins the Fall semester mostly virtual, we wanted to check in with each office for their public service plans: Office of Admissions and Recruitment Beginning in September, OAR will offer phone and email coverage Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We are excited for our student staff to return to …

08.12.20 Mental Health Wellness Update

While we all are telecommuting, OSFA will be sharing some ideas to boost your mental health during these difficult times. If you know of any videos, podcasts, articles, events, ideas, etc. that would be perfect to include in these emails, please send them along to Erica Tisdale at erica.tisdale@wisc.edu.   One Way to Improve Your …

RO Implements Project Portfolio

After the entire team worked to complete the SIS 9.2 Upgrade, the Registrar’s Office began a journey in fiscal year 2020 (FY20) to create a project portfolio from the ground up. Due to various competing project and task priorities and a commitment to deliver to the campus community, they brought in a project portfolio manager, …

Fall Recruitment Goes Virtual

We are officially launching our 2021 recruitment season! As we know, both the Common Application and the UW System Application went live this past Saturday, August 1. While we will not begin to process or read applications until later this month, it is officially fall recruitment season. We are officially launching our 2021 recruitment season! …

On(line) Wisconsin!

UW Madison will welcome its first class of (fully) online undergraduate students this fall. The program is open to transfer and re-entry students with at least 24 transferable college credits and a 2.0 minimum GPA. The pilot program is a Bachelor of Science in Personal Finance within the School of Human Ecology.  The online program …

CourseLeaf Updates Enhance Lumen

This summer the Curricular and Academic Management Services team worked with CourseLeaf to make updates and enhancements to software. CourseLeaf is the academic catalog software that is used to gather information about courses. UW–Madison refers to the faculty-facing interface for the software as Lumen. Lumen is the gateway for faculty, curricular representatives, and governance bodies …