ADVISING WEEKLY UPDATES for the UIC Advising Community 10-23-15
Our weekly updates are available as posts on advising.uic.edu online once sent out on the listserv. Click on each of the announcements below to go directly to the announcement you want, or scroll down to see all announcements. Each announcement title is a link to the posted version on our website.
Friday, November 6th
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
(Check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m.)
Cardinal Room, SCE
We are planning for campus update presentations including ROTC and Guaranteed Admissions Transfer (GAT). More information about our featured topic and agenda will be forthcoming.
Please RSVP for the morning of November 6th on your calendars! For more information, please contact Joey Volpe (jvolpe@uic.edu).
Please share this information and/or flyer with your students about TRIO's event this week.
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Have you thought about the what, why, and when: when it comes to grad school? Still deliberating about your major and career path? What is it that you plan to do after graduation? How about your self-reflections?
Don't worry!
Graduate and Professional School Summit is here!
Meet the experts for a dialogue regarding: Graduate School, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, College Business, College of Medicine, College of Dentistry, School of Public Health
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Student Center East
Monarch Room
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 5th at 3:30: Grant Hall 106 or
Monday, November 9th at 3:30 University Hall 1050 or
Friday, November 13th at 3pm Grant Hall 106 or
Monday, November 16th at 12pm University Hall 1050
Topics will include:
Important dates and policies
registration and class scheduling tools
academic planning and degree requirements
Refreshments will be served!
ALL undergraduate students are welcome.
Do you have other questions, concerns, curiosities?
Request an appointment with Jill Huynh, UIC AANAPISI Undergraduate Advisor: go.uic.edu/AANAPISI_Appts
Learn more about the UIC AANAPISI Initiative go.uic.eu/aanapisi Facebook.com/aanapisi
The UIC AANAPISI Initiative is fully funded by the U.S. Department of Education. UIC is federally recognized as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) through its status as a funded Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution.
On Tuesday, November 3rd from 4:00pm to 7:00pm in the Illinois Rooms of Student Center East there will be a free graduate school fair for prospective graduate and doctoral students of public health.
There will be 45 schools and programs of public health in attendance so if any of your students are considering pursuing a graduate degree in public health, this would be a great event for them to attend!
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, in conjunction with the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Honors College and the University of Illinois Alumni Association, is pleased to announce the 2016 Student Research Forum (SRF), which will be held on April 12, 2016. This important campus-wide event showcases undergraduate, graduate and professional student research covering a broad range of scholarship: Art/Design/Humanities; Business/Computer Science/Mathematics; Engineering/Physical Sciences; Life Sciences; and Social Sciences. In addition to awards in the above categories, awards will be given to the top student research projects that best reflect the principles of sustainability and those that use women, sex, and/or gender as the central focus of their study or which have a primary focus on understanding sex or gender differences related to the topic under study.
Registration for the forum will open in January. Further details on the event and specific instructions for participation are provided on the SRF website. http://www.research.uic.edu/srf
In order to help you prepare, the UIC Library, the Office of Undergraduate Research, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research are sponsoring a series of workshops designed to help students with their research. Information is below or available at the workshops page.
Student Research Forum Library Workshop Series
Getting Started with Your Research If you plan to present at the Student Research Forum or elsewhere in the Spring, now is the time to get started with your research. In this workshop librarians will work with any and all students to:
Develop Your Topic: Is your topic too broad or too narrow? Librarians will help you address this and other issues that can crop up as you develop a research topic.
Find Resources: What are the best resources in your field? How should you use them? What are effective strategies for figuring out which articles you should read?
Organize What You Find: There are tools that help you save and organize the materials you find online. They can save you a lot of time and even save you from accidental plagiarism. Librarians will briefly introduce you to these tools.
Dates and times:
October 8 from 1-2 pm
October 9 from 2-3 pm
October 27 from 3-4 pm
Location:
The IDEA Commons Classroom, Daley Library, First Floor, Room 1-010
If you have ever read a journal article, the core expression of scholarship in a wide variety of fields, you may have felt that reading and understanding journal articles is hard. You aren’t the only one. This workshop is meant to provide you with some advice and methods for breaking a journal article into manageable pieces and extracting the key information from it for your research. Open to students from all fields and all disciplines!
Dates and times:
October 28 2-3 pm
October 29 1-2 pm
Location:
The IDEA Commons Classroom, Daley Library, First Floor, Room 1-010
The Honors College is hosting an open house for advisors on Friday, November 20 from 12pm to 2pm in Burnham Hall.
At noon, we will be offering lunch and a screening of the NACADA webinar "Academic Advising for High Achieving Students: Strategies that Foster Resilience," followed by a discussion.
The webinar, adapted from a presentation by Kerry Thomas and Nova Schauss at the NACADA Region 8 Conference, provides strategies, curriculum, language, and research surrounding how to assist students through the challenges of their undergraduate career. While there will be particular relevance to high achieving students, the material will be applicable to various student populations. For more information on the webinar and/or its presenters, visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events-Programs/Events/Web-Events/Web-Events-Coming/Web-Event-Nov-2015.aspx.
Please save the date in your calendar and an RSVP link will be forthcoming!
Digest of Previous Weeks' Announcements
Did you miss announcements from the past few weeks? Take a look below...
The UARC Weekly Update Subcommittee is pleased to provide you with an easier way to submit your news/announcements and upcoming events so that UARC can share them with advisors. UARC Advising Weekly Updates will normally be sent on Fridays each week (although more frequently if the need allows), so please keep that in mind as you plan to advertise your events or share your news with the advising community. To submit an update, please use the UARC Weekly Update Request web form at http://go.uic.edu/uarcweeklyupdaterequest. Please direct questions to either Nick Ardinger (ardinger@uic.edu) or Joey Volpe (jvolpe@uic.edu).
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