Tag: events

National Student Employment Week 2025

During the second full week of April each year, National Student Employment Appreciation Week is celebrated at colleges and universities across the nation. This year the Student Employment team in the Office of Student Financial Aid led a centrally coordinated effort to celebrate all UW–Madison student employees. There were free events such as headshots, crafting, resume review, bowling, …

Student Job Fairs Make Connections

At the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, the Student Employment Team kicked things off with two job fairs: the Federal Work-Study (FWS) Job Fair, in collaboration with the Bucky’s Pell Pathway and BANNER, and the UW–Madison Student Job Fair, in partnership with the Student Employment Initiatives Working Group.  The Federal Work-Study Job Fair took …

In partnership with “Our Scholarship” to Support Southeast Asian Students

The OSFA Advising and Outreach team is excited to work with a new community partner, Our Scholarship, in our efforts to support more Federal Pell Grant-eligible students in their journey to and through higher education. Our Scholarship is a non-profit organization based in Milwaukee that seeks to increase access to higher education for the Southeast …

Q&A: Looking back at RO’s Leah Meicher’s two-year term as co-chair of campus I&TLC Conference

When the Information and Technology Leadership Conference celebrated its tenth anniversary on December 5, the Office of the Registrar’s Leah Meicher took to the floor to moderate the event’s keynote address, a fireside chat with new Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr.

Helping bring spring commencement back to campus

Commencement is a big time of the year for the Office of the Registrar (RO) and campus, with planning for the event starting months in advance. Many team members from the RO enjoyed helping make the day special for students and assisting with the ceremony in various ways. Being able to help with these events …

Let’s Get Virtual – OAR Spring Events

We are excited to unveil the Office of Admissions and Recruitment’s Spring 2021 virtual event plan. After evaluating our Fall 2020 events and considering our goals for spring, we decided to develop three branded tracks of sessions (Prospective, Admitted, Counselor) that allow each audience to choose what events they will attend from a variety of …

Upcoming Virtual Admissions Events

Through the end of June, we continue to offer virtual counselor/transfer advisor events. We have offered 10 in total, and our final three include an international counselor information session and information sessions for transfer advisors in Illinois and Minnesota. We plan to continue these into July and August. These events showcase the academic and extracurricular …