Division of Academic & Student Affairs

Carol Edquist joined the Universities of Wisconsin Administration as Budget Director for the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, coming from UW-Extension where she served as the Budget Director for 11 years. Carol jointly maintained her role with UW-Extension in supporting budget operations through the close of fiscal year 2018-19, and continued to assist with the restructuring project and transition. She has over 20 years of combined budget and financial experience at UW system institutions, previously working at UW-Milwaukee as Business Manager for the Center for International Education. She has a deep knowledge of UW system budget, fiscal, and administrative processes; policies; financial and human resources systems; tools for reporting and analytics; and management best practices.

Jenna Graff began serving as International Coordinator in the Division of Academic & Student Affairs in March 2025, providing leadership, direction, planning, and support to the Universities of Wisconsin in attaining the internationalization goals outlined in the Universities of Wisconsin Strategic Plan. She administers the higher education segment of the Hessen (Germany)-Wisconsin Partnership and works closely with the UW Administration and UW academic and international colleagues in identifying, integrating, and implementing efforts to grow internationalization of higher education.
Prior to transitioning into this position, Graff served as UW-Oshkosh’s Director of the Office of International Education since its inception in 2003, overseeing study abroad and student exchange, immigration advising, National Student Exchange, an Intensive English Program, and inbound custom group programs for students and professionals from various countries. Her work involved project management, travel risk management, financial operations, contract negotiations, process development, insurance, emergency response planning, and compliance with relevant federal, state, system, and university regulations and policies.
She earned her B.A. in Spanish, graduating Magna Cum Laude from UW-Oshkosh, and her M.S. in Educational Leadership, also from UW-Oshkosh.

Sandra Kallio joined the Universities of Wisconsin Division of Academic and Student Affairs in September 2017. She provides strategic communications support for various initiatives led through that division. These initiatives have included 360 Advising, the Navigate360 student success management system, and the Math Initiative. Prior roles with UW system institutions include university relations positions with the former UW Colleges and UW-Extension to support the work of the Chancellor and Provosts. She also was a senior writer for a Lumina Foundation grant to chronicle the development of the UW Flexible Option. She started her professional career in K-12 education and subsequently worked for more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter and assistant features editor for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison. She is a graduate of UW-Madison with a B.S. in education and an M.A. in journalism.