Stories indexed under: Center for the First Year Experience
Total: 8
- Student feedback helps drive placement testing changes Feb. 2, 2012 UW-Madison, after carefully listening to students, is adjusting the way it administers placement testing, beginning this year.
- Transfer Transition Program: Providing innovative ways to serve transfer students Jan. 24, 2012 Hundreds of students transfer to UW-Madison in the spring semester, and thousands more do it in the fall.
- Singer named campus advising director Dec. 21, 2011 As part of a comprehensive plan to improve student academic advising services, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has named Wren Singer to the new position of director of undergraduate advising.
- Four honored for first-year student work Nov. 15, 2011 The Center for the First-Year Experience (CFYE) honored the accomplishments of four individuals who have worked to improve the campus for new students during the Friday, Nov. 11 First-Year Conference.
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Center turns to innovative methods with first-year students
Nov. 8, 2011
Inside UW–Madison talks with Center for the First-Year Experience Director Wren Singer ahead of the center's annual conference about how the university has shifted to a more comprehensive approach to serving the needs of first-year students.
- Convocation to welcome new students, celebrate legacy Aug. 30, 2011 On Thursday, Sept. 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward will welcome first-year and transfer students to the university at the Chancellor’s Convocation for New Students.
- SOAR previews college life, provides tools for success July 26, 2011 With a home base for the first time at the new Union South, the summer Student Orientation, Advising and Registration program has produced a sense of ease and enthusiasm for students and their parents.
- Campus welcomes new transfer students Jan. 18, 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is welcoming approximately 375 transfer students and 40 new freshmen beginning classes for the first time today, Tuesday, Jan. 18.