Tag: data

RO team’s work highlighted during Love Data Week

Two reports from the Office of the Registrar (RO) were featured on Feb. 16 as part of the annual Love Data Week. Each year, the Big Ten Academic Alliance hosts Love Data Week. As part of this event, the University of Wisconsin–Madison celebrates the analysis and underlying statistics that quantify success and provide key context …

RO delivers on campus partner requests for SOAR

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 …

An idea becomes reality with the new DARS Tableau workbook

In October 2019, the Office of the Registrar embarked on a project after attending the Big Ten Academic Alliance Registrar meeting and seeing what University of Minnesota was doing to warehouse uAchieve (DARS) data for use in NCAA eligibility checks. Members of our office returned to Madison with the questions, “What if we could see …

Report rewrite: Update National Student Clearinghouse reports

Electronic transmissions of enrollment, program, and other student information is sent to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)  multiple times each term. The NSC provides educational reporting (including data to the National Student Loan Data System), verification and research and includes a large national network of colleges, making up 97 percent of postsecondary enrollment.  Electronic transmissions …

Cutting edge page combines data

The Student Athletic Summary (SAS) Page project was started because the Athletic Certification process needed a tool to streamline the process and provide a central location for data and document storage. The Office of the Registrar needed to develop a tool that met the needs of the Academic Eligibility staff and worked within the technical …

Registrar helps UW-Madison Libraries expand student services

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 …