What do Siracha, Death Valley, and the Student Employment Summer Summit have in common? Usually nothing. But thanks to the broken cooling pipe they all found themselves in the same conversation on June 29th at the Pyle Center. Despite the unexpected heat, 124 attendees kept their cool and stayed focused on the real reason they …
The UW–Madison LEAP (Learn, Experience, Advance, Participate) Forward Internship wrapped up its sixth successful summer of the program. LEAP was piloted in the summer of 2018 as a part of UW–Madison’s Anchor Partner Commitment to the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and the Personalized Pathways Program. LEAP Forward has been designed as an equitable opportunity …
This May, the Basic Needs team in the Office of Student Financial Aid joined forces with Mad City Moving and University Housing Sustainability to launch Badger Reclaim. This initiative aims to provide UW–Madison students with essential housing items at no cost, promoting sustainability and community support. Badger Reclaim builds off the successes of the Sustainable …
The Student Employment Team piloted a Site-Visit Initiative in the Fall of 2022. Now in 2024, the team has conducted over 12 visits, seven of which took place in the 23-24 AY. The goal of the initiative was to connect with our off-campus Federal Work-Study (FWS) Partners to better understand how we can improve our …
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 …
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 …
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.
The UW–Madison LEAP (Learn, Experience, Advance, Participate) Forward Internship wrapped up it’s fourth successful summer of the program. LEAP was piloted in the summer of 2018 as a part of UW–Madison’s Anchor Partner Commitment to the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and the Personalized Pathways Program. LEAP Forward has been designed as an equitable opportunity …
The Office of Student Financial Aid’s Wisconsin Scholarship Hub (WiSH) Support Team hosted an exciting event that fostered collaboration, knowledge exchange, and innovation within the realm of scholarship management. As part of the ongoing efforts to enhance scholarship processes across the Wisconsin higher education institutions, the Wisconsin Blackbaud Award Management (BAM) User Group gathered for …
The Student Employment team is excited to share the highlights of our recent Federal Work Study Partner Site Visit Initiative from May. During our visit with the Department of Administration tour guides, we discovered their mission of providing unique guided tours of the capital, with UW–Madison student employees serving as essential tour guides. In addition, …