2024-2025 Advising Summits

Spring 2025 Advising Summit Heading link

Taking place Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 in Student Center West Thompson Rooms. (Shuttle bus service from SCE is available.)

Presentation Resources Available:

Presentation PowerPoint and Livestream Video

Transportation Provided: Bus between East and West Campus will be provided at the beginning and end:
Pick-up in front of SCE on Halstead starting at 11:45am through 12:45pm…..Return at conclusion of event
Lunch: Noon-1:00pm
Summit Programming: 1:00pm-4:00pm

Advisor Professional Development
Fireside Chat with Provost Colley
Updates and Refresh from the Office of International Services
Updates from the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships

Networking Happy Hour: 4pm at Vintage (1449 W.Taylor St.- immediately following the event)

Fall 2024 Advising Summit and Advising Awards Ceremony Heading link

The Fall 2024, Advising Summit was held on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 in Student Center East, Illinois Room. We celebrated our past year’s Advising Award Winners, ate and socialized, and grew professionally!

Fall 2024 ADVISING SUMMIT AGENDA and RESOURCES:

Video and associated resources of the day’s presentations

PowerPoint slides of the day’s presentations

Welcome and Overview of the Day
- (Joseph Chambers, CBA Advisor and PAVE Committee- Advising Summit Working Group Chair) \
Advising Awards Ceremony
- (Josephine Volpe, Associate Vice Provost – featuring special guest: Provost Colley)
Financial Aid Updates
- (Rich Hayes, Executive Director for Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships)
Disability Resource Center Updates
- (Sophia Hamilton, Director of DRC)
Panel Discussion: Senior Leadership discuss “The passion and purpose of their work and how advising intersects and impacts their practices”
- Josephine Volpe: panel moderator
- Executive Associate Vice Provost, Aisha El-Amin
- Vice Provost, Kiely Fletcher
- Vice Provost, Nikos Varelas
Behavioral Health Navigation Guide
- (Natalia Lopez-Yanez Director, UIC COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Epidemiology Program Epidemiology and Biostatistics)

Photos of Fall 2024 Advising Summit Heading link

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Left to Right: April Long (LAS), James Alford (CBA), Natalie Vesga (COED), Yazmin Rodriguez (LAS), Trisha Garcia (LAS), Rachel Schaffnit (LAS), Simona Stankevicius (AHS)
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L to R: Nikos Varelas (Exec. Vice Provost), Kiely Fletcher (Vice Provost), Aisha El-Amin (Exec. Assoc. Vice Provost), Josephine Volpe (Associate Vice Provost)