Transportation Services wants to know how members of the UW‒Madison community travel to and from campus. Selected employees will receive an email on February 2 as part of a random sampling of UW students and employees. Not everyone on campus will receive an invitation to complete the survey. The survey is available in English, Spanish, Hmong, Tibetan, Chinese, and Nepali. Survey respondents will help shape the future of the UW‒Madison transportation system. For more information, visit transportation.wisc.edu.

The Foundation Data Model (FDM) is used across Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, and Financials to establish a baseline for Workday transaction processing and reporting. On February 9, 3–4 p.m., the Administrative Transformation Program (ATP) team will discuss FDM and the concept of worktags, a key feature of Workday’s finance system that has versatile search options. This concept will be featured in a demonstration of expense reporting in Workday. In July 2024, UW‒Madison will make the transition to Workday, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that will replace the Human Resource System (HRS) and Shared Financial System (SFS) across the UW System. Live demos of different features of Workday will be offered online on the second Thursday of every month.

This year’s Academic Staff Institute (ASI) will be held Tuesday, April 4, 8:15 a.m.–1:30 p.m. at Union South. ASI is an annual professional development conference for UW–Madison academic staff. This year’s conference will feature a keynote address by Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director of the Public History Project, as well as breakout sessions on topics including wellbeing in the workplace, sustainability, retirement benefits, networking skills, an Administrative Transformation Project (ATP) update, and more. The $18 registration fee includes light breakfast and lunch. Registration is open through March 20 at go.wisc.edu/8de5wc.

The College of Agricultural & Life Sciences (CALS) Wellness Committee is partnering with LifeMatters to offer free, online webinars that are open to all UW‒Madison employees. On Thursday, Feb. 16, 1‒2 p.m., the topic will be Managing Life: Clutter Busters. On Thursday, March 9, 11 a.m.‒noon, LifeMatters will present Stress Management: Personal Resilience. Registration is required; the Zoom link will be sent to all registrants.