UW’s 2025 Holiday Gift Guide features gift ideas from around campus that showcase Badger spirit, celebrate arts and culture, and stem from scientific research and discovery. Holiday cards and gifts from UW–Madison — including food, books, culinary and arts experiences, memberships, apparel, gift cards, and more — are available for purchase now at brand.wisc.edu/gift-guide.

LifeMatters and the Employee Assistance Office are offering a virtual webinar, How to Bring Your Best Self to Work, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, noon–1 p.m. via Zoom. This webinar provides strategies to enhance job performance, improve relationships, and contribute positively to the workplace. Participants will learn about self-awareness, work-life balance, building relationships, maintaining a positive mindset, and more. The webinar is offered at no cost to all UW–Madison employees. Register online to receive the Zoom link.

Bystander Intervention: Stepping In with Care and Confidence is a highly interactive workshop offered by Learning and Talent Development to UW–Madison employees at no charge. This workshop builds skills for identifying and interrupting behaviors that negatively impact the workplace, in order to build healthy, inclusive, and engaging workplaces. Participants will practice intervention options in real-life scenarios and will leave equipped with options to interrupt and improve concerning workplace situations when they arise. This workshop is offered virtually and in person; both formats are available in the employee course catalog. The next virtual workshop will meet for two-hour sessions on Jan. 15–16, 2026.

Feedback from our campus community is essential for guiding activities, and surveys are often an effective way to collect that information. A process for reviewing, approving, and coordinating institutional surveys has been developed. The Institutional Survey Review Committee aims to monitor the volume of institutional surveys, coordinate their timing, reduce redundancies, enhance the quality of institutional survey data, and increase response rates. The committee provides survey considerations and review guidelines at go.wisc.edu/e555a2.