In February 2023, members from the Office of the Registrar’s Degree Audit and Academic Programs (DAAP) team attended the Leepfrog User Community Conference. The conference focused on building technical skills within CourseLeaf, the curricular management software that we refer to as Lumen on campus, as well as learning new ways to leverage CourseLeaf for student …
This past year UW–Madison experienced tremendous growth in the number of students who requested and were approved for accommodations for exams in their courses. Although an overall increase in the number of students on campus may have partly contributed to this, there has been a multi-year trend of increasing numbers of students with disabilities seeking …
In response to the College of Letters & Science request to get more comprehensive curricular and student enrollment information, Phil Hull created an Institutional Data Exporter (IDE) for Fall Course Access. The IDE will be utilized during SOAR for Course Access Planning. In response to the College of Letters & Science request to get more …
June marked the official publication of the 2023-2024 edition of Guide. This edition is the culmination of the work that departmental and school/college representatives, academic planners, faculty, and governance bodies have been working toward all year. Over 800 Lumen Programs and Structures updates were processed and implemented in this catalog cycle. June marked the official …
In July 2020, Transferology replaced UW Systems’ (UWS) homegrown Transfer Information System (TIS). UW System purchased Transferlolgy as a web-based tool to share transfer credit data among all public colleges and universities in the state and to recruit students from across the country. TIS was limited to sharing freshman/sophomore-level courses and only updated six times …
Campus has set a goal of 5,000 students enrolled in our online undergraduate programs within the next 5 years. To support this growth in a competitive landscape, campus leadership is investigating multiple pathways to attract, retain, and graduate students, while ensuring they have access to financial aid and other student success services. One mechanism to …
The Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) has partnered with the Division of Recreation & Wellbeing (Rec Well) on a pilot effort to offer fee waivers for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This pilot with Rec Well is a part of OSFA’s broader No Fees project and will offer fee waivers to over 6,000 undergraduate …
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 …
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 …
Eric MacKay (Assistant Registrar for Degree Audit and Academic Programs, Office of the Registrar) collaborated with Kala Grove (Coordinator for New Advisor Training, Office of Undergraduate Advising), Emily Schmidt (Assistant Director, Cross-College Advising Service), and Jeff Shokler (Director for Technology & Assessment, Office of Undergraduate Advising) to provide a “DARS and Tech Overview” virtual training …