2023 Schedule of Events

We will be learning together all week, taking a break and relaxing together, and spending time in this special week for advisors! Our OAD team and Advisor Week planning partners have put together the full agenda (https://go.uic.edu/AdvisorWeek2023Schedule) for you with descriptions of our sessions that are centered in five different foci -

• Core Competencies
• Expanding Expertise
• Student Success
• Self-Care, Service & Social
• Wellness and Well-being

Access the full agenda and descriptions to learn more!

Session Descriptions

Tuesday, March 21st

Session:              Having focused career conversations with students
Virtual| 9:00-10:30am
Presenter(s):     Career Leadership Council
Description:       Building on the discussion from Advising Summit, the Career Leadership Council will deliver an interactive experience for attendees to gain firsthand knowledge of the career advising conversation. This presentation provides resources and tools to connect advisors to career development best practices.

Session:              Student Success Lecture - Accelerate Your Success and Summer Session
Virtual | 11:00-12:30pm
Presenter(s):     Dr. Lindsey Back and Natalie Kokorudz
Description:       Undergraduate students’ enrollment in summer courses facilitates timely degree attainment, whether they are making up courses from a previous term or speeding up their time to degree. This Advisor Week-focused Lecture Series presentation will describe Summer Session benefits and logistics in general, with a special emphasis on the Accelerate Your Success program and another new summer initiative for academic recovery. Accelerate Your Success, which began in Summer 2018, offers undergraduates an opportunity to earn a scholarship up to $2300 toward summer tuition when enrolling in at least 5 credit hours in UIC’s Summer Session. Presenters will share outcome data on the Accelerate Your Success program, as well as plans for Summer 2023.

LUNCH BREAK – Virtual| 12:30-1:30pm (Join the OAD team and others to continue conversation over Zoom lunch hour)

Session:              TAC Transferology Training
Virtual| 1:30-3:00pm
Presenter(s):     Dena Lawrence the Senior Project Coordinator, Illinois MyCreditsTransfer.
Description:       Attendees should join if you are interested in learning the in’s and outs of transferologylab. Please join us for a deep dive into transferology lab and how it is best used to guide our prospective transfer students.  You need a current transferology lab account and plan to follow along on your computer throughout the presentation in case you have any questions. If you do not have a lab account, simply go to transferologylab.com and click the "Request Lab account" link.

Session:              UIC Summer College: Creating Opportunities to Reinforce Success, Build Community, and Diminish the Achievement Gap
Virtual| 3:00-4:00pm
Presenter(s):     Liz Houlihan, Director, Academic Center for Excellence
Description:       Summer College is a collection of programs designed to enhance the incoming, first-year student’s experience. With two main objectives, Summer College is among the first programs that may influence a student’s academic journey before the start of the fall semester. Learn about Summer College, compelling data that demonstrate impact, and how academic advisors play a critical role in the recruitment and registration process.

Session:              Tips for finding your Zen
Virtual| 4:00-4:30pm
Presenter(s):     Rachel Najdzin, Assistant Director for Student Affairs, AHS
Description:       This quick half hour session will guide you back to your inner peace. You will utilize guided techniques from the instructor, utilizing your chair, and surroundings to relax and reset. The practice will give you tools to utilize in your office for fining your inner Zen.

Wednesday, March 22nd

Session:              Wellness and Well-being Tour
Meet in SCE lobby bookstore entrance |9:00-9:50am
Presenter(s):     Our partners in Health and Well-being
Description:       Start your morning with us on the Wellbeing Bus for this event touring some of our health and well-being spaces. We will provide some morning sustenance and start our day with our Health and Well-being partners as a great follow up to Advising Summit!

Session:              Advisor Conference - Navigating Math Placement
Burnham Hall 208 | 10:00-10:50am
Presenter(s):     Josh Fletcher, Director of Advising, Outreach, and Math Placement
Description:       Mathematics placement testing through ALEKS on UIC's campus can be a challenge to navigate. With the help of new videos showcasing the student experience, this presentation will answer questions advisors may have regarding placement, additional attempts, and recommendations for students. Additionally, the presenter will show syllabi and grade breakdowns to help advisors when working with students on mathematics and statistics courses at UIC.

Session:              Advisor Conference - Dissecting Student Success: Anatomy and Physiology at UIC
Burnham Hall 208 | 11:00-11:50 am
Presenter(s):     Kinesiology Senior Academic Advisor, Jo Wagner and Clinical Assistant Professor, Dr. Tom Kanan
Description:       In this presentation, attendees will get an overview of anatomy and physiology at UIC, a course required for most pre-health professions. From how the course is structured (hint: don’t believe what you see in XE Registration!), benefits and skills our students walk away with, to strategies for helping students succeed in the course, we hope to provide you with all the tools you need to successfully advise students thinking about taking the course and support those currently enrolled.

Session:              Lunchtime Roundtable Discussion - Poster without the Poster Lunch Time Chats
Honors College – Burnham Hall (Multiple Rooms)
Presenter(s):     Viviana Kabbabe-Thompson, Josh Fletcher, Joseph Chambers, Sharon Hayes, Honors College Team Members – Sally Blechschmidt, Kathryn Burns-Howard, and Brandon Ishikata
Description:       Our lunch-time roundtable discussions are going to be on an exciting range of topics and we hope you can join us! More info to come on these great open-ended round table topics-based discussions designed to be for you! The Honors College is co-sponsoring lunch for us in Burnham Hall for our discussion tables "Poster without the Poster" Session. It's also a time to pick-up your UIC Advising t-shirt if you haven't gotten it yet!

Poster without a Poster Lunch topics are as follows:

• "Tools for Maximizing and Personalizing Student Support" with Sharon Hayes
• “Using iAdvise Filters to Maximize Student Outreach” with Viviana Kabbabe-Thompson
• “Why Honors? High-Performing Students and the UIC Honors College” with Kathryn Burns-Howard, Sally Blechschmidt, and Brandon Ishikata
• “Navigating Math Placement Follow-Up and Focus” with Josh Fletcher
• “Learning to Log Off: Navigating Realistic Expectations between Passion and Burnout” with Joseph Chambers

Session:              Advisor Conference - Ask a Recruiter: Bridging the Gap Between Recruitment and Advising
Burnham Hall 208 | 1:00-1:50 pm
Presenter(s):     Ashley Jarrell, LAS Assistant Director, Recruitment & Engagement;  Patricia Francey, Director of Transfer Assistance Center;  Marilyn Diaz, LARES Academic Advisor and Recruitment Coordinator and Recruitment; and Kevin Price, Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Description:       Exploring the role that recruiters and admissions advisors play in the process of applying to and enrolling at UIC via a panel session. Panel members will share experiences and discuss answers to a series of real world questions in an open format.

Session:              Advisor Conference - International Student Advising
Burnham Hall 208 | 2:00-2:50 pm
Presenter(s):     Jessica Justmann, Associate Academic Director
Description:       As undergraduate international populations continue to grow at UIC, this session will address an international student cycle from before they arrive to the university to their first semester experience. By the end of the session, participants can expect to: 1) have a greater awareness of language use when advising a student, 2) the initial expectation of the student’s advisor relationship, 3) share best practices for advising international students.

Session:              Advisor Conference - High Impact Student Engagement & YOU!
Burnham Hall 208 | 3:00-3:50 pm
Presenter(s):     Allen Womble, Director High Impact Student Engagement
Description:       Discover how to integrate high-impact practices to develop students in experiential learning experiences. Utilizing research on our UIC students, this session will explore how High Impact Student Engagement looks on our campus for our students and the unique roles advisors play in high impact engagement for UIC students.

NETWORKING EVENT AT HAWKEYE’S BEGINS AFTER ADVISOR CONFERENCE
4:00 pm Hawkeye’s - End the day, with socializing, snacks, and sips! We will provide food and beverages at Hawkeye's on Taylor St. at the conclusion of Advisor Conference. Joey will provide some transportation in her "Little Red Wagon" aka her red Nissan Versa to and from, should it be needed. There is also a free parking lot for Hawkeye's at the corner of Laflin and Fillmore Streets.

Thursday, March 23rd

Session:              Start Your Day with Coffee and a Reading
Student Recreation Facility 8:30-9:30 am
Presenter(s):     OAD and our Partners in Health and Well-being
Description:       We’re starting our day with learning together with a common reading on well-being and mental health. Our own well-being in the workplace is significantly important and reading together, gathering together and learning together is a strength of our advising community.

Session:               Building your Advising Practice using The Core Competencies
SCE Cardinal Room | 10:00am-12:00 pm
Presenter(s):     Teri Farr, President of NACADA and Charlie Nutt, Executive Director Emeritus of NACADA
Description:       Teri Farr, current President of NACADA and Charlie Nutt will be joining us for this incredibly special opportunity to learn together with them and expand our work on our advising practice using the framework of the NACADA Core Competencies. We’re incredibly excited about this opportunity and the special visit from advising leaders who have contributed so much to our profession. Our UIC advising community is truly special and we will work in an interactive way with Teri and Charlie. Teri is a part of our U of I System family and advises as University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Session:               Luncheon – Your Path to Involvement
SCE Cardinal Room | 12:00-1:30 pm
Presenter(s):     Teri Farr, President of NACADA and Charlie Nutt, Executive Director Emeritus of NACADA
Description:       Teri and Charlie will be joining us for lunch, and after enjoying time having lunch and continuing our conversations from our workshop, we get a SECOND presentation from Teri and Charlie about how to become more involved as an advisor in NACADA, etc. We will also have some surprises for you if you can join us (hint, hint…this might be your advisor gifts…).

Session:              Strategies for Practicing Trauma Informed Advising
ARC 240 | 2:00-3:30 pm
Presenter(s):     Kelly Maginot Campus Advocacy Network and Jamey Arnold, Women’s Leadership and Resource Center
Description:       Following up on the Campus Advocacy Network presentation at Advising Summit, we’re pleased to be continuing with this deeper dive into practicing trauma-informed advising with our partners from WLRC/CAN.

Session:              Advisors Light the Spark for our Youngest Flames
Presenter:          OAD Community helping UI Health Child Life Services
ARC 240 | 3:30pm - until finished
Description:       Add the spark to a child in need: come assist in creating and assembling coping bags and blankets for children in the pediatric unit at UI Health. We couldn’t think of a better way to end our formal Advisor Week activities than service and we hope you can join us.