International students attending UW–Madison on an F-1 or J-1 visa are usually in the United States, studying on our campus, in person. To avoid termination of their visa, they are required to enroll in a full-time course load each semester. If they drop below full-time, we have a SIS process that automatically sets a minimum …
The Office of the Registrar and School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) have been working together to correct, define, and create necessary data integration between their OASIS (Online Access to Student Information and Scheduling) and the campus SIS (Student Information System). This project expands across campus and will work to ensure accurate, reliable data …
In August 2018, the Division of Continuing Studies and the Division of Enrollment Management began partnering as an Oracle Early Adopter of the Student Cloud SIS product called Oracle Student Management Cloud (OSM). In August 2018, the Division of Continuing Studies and the Division of Enrollment Management began partnering as an Oracle Early Adopter of …
OSFA’s conundrum – the information we need from the Department of Education about the Federal Pell Grant isn’t typically available until February (if we’re lucky!) but we begin to admit the incoming freshmen class in December. These past few years, our team has provided students their financial aid offer in December, but often that original …
The Student Information System (SIS) is the backbone and data source for much of what the Division of Enrollment Management does: academic records, curricular schedule build, and much more. Recently, several working groups have been developed to help prioritize initiatives and implement improvements within SIS. The Student Information System (SIS) is the backbone and data …
With the upgrade to the 9.2 environment in SIS many upgrades and enhancements occurred, and are still occurring. For instance, when the university transitioned to using the delivered transcript in SIS 9.2, an associated decision was made to align with AACRAO best practices to consistently and permanently display academic standing on the transcript. The enhancement …
Originally developed by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1980, Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes are assigned to every academic plan in SIS as a way to enable an “apples to apples” comparison of programs across the country, since relying on the institutional program names don’t always align. …
Do you hear the buzz of summer? No, it is not cicadas in late summer. The buzz is the eForms project powered by GT eForms from Gideon-Taylor. DEM implemented the software last month and is excited to leverage it for a simplified and improved experience for students, staff, and faculty. The new eForms allow DEM, …