Most UW–Madison employees are familiar with the heavily discounted bus pass available through Transportation Services, but how familiar are you with lesser known benefits on campus? For example, keeping on the theme of transportation, do you know about the Red Bike rental program or the discounts available for Madison BCycle? Thanks to various campus units …
Sometimes we may not need more hours in the day, but rather more hours dedicated to completing our tasks. Below are a few ideas and if you have any others that work for you, talk about them with your colleagues! Make a plan for your day: ● Prioritize your tasks after looking through your calendar. …
Tell us a bit about your role and responsibilities at UW–Madison. I am an academic advisor in the School of Education where we work with students in majors as diverse as the arts, education, and health. I have been involved in freshman orientation programming, diversity and equity initiatives, global education, and scholarship work in the …
Academic Staff at UW–Madison can often find themselves in an alphabet soup of acronyms. Can you find the Academic Staff acronyms in the word search below? You can use the Alphabet Soup Decoder Ring to learn more about each acronym. Download a PDF for printing. Solution
Would you like to see a colleague recognized for their hard work, dedication and general excellence? Nominate them for a UW–Madison Academic Staff Excellence Award! Ten prestigious awards in eight categories will be awarded this year to academic staff members. Included this year is the newly created WISCIENCE Lillian Tong Teaching Award. This award will …
Annually in October, a series of activities ranging from events, email drives, and important announcements to exciting polar plunges are organized. These are all part of the Partners in Giving Campaign, a significant initiative that began in 1973. Over the years, it has raised upwards of $85 million for various charities, a feat made possible …
Every issue of Cornerstone will feature an Academic Staff Profile. These profiles will share the breadth and depth of Academic Staff positions at UW–Madison and highlight their contributions. In this issue we feature Steve Bialek, an internal consultant with the Office of Strategic Consulting. Tell us a bit about your role and responsibilities at UW–Madison. …
12th Annual Frozen Assets Festival, February 3-4 Guess when the lakes are going to freeze highlight Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing City of Madison Parks cross-country skiing page The Madison Nordic Ski Club offers area trail maps and trail conditions Check out trail options through the Wisconsin State Park Snowshoe Trails: Devil’s Lake, The Glacial Drumlin State Trail, The Ice Age …
A quick scan of Wisconsin newspapers from September 1923 reveals that UW-Madison has always been newsworthy and that reporting from one hundred years ago may sound familiar to readers today.
When you first joined UW-Madison as an academic staff member, you may have heard the term “shared governance” mentioned as a benefit of working here. Maybe you were curious and delved further into what this means. Or maybe, like many of us juggling busy work and home lives, you accepted it as a good thing but remained vague on the details.