PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Spring 2019 Advising Summit Documents available on advising.uic.edu!
Our Spring 2019 Advising Summit was held on Friday, February 22nd and continued our pursuit to provide updated essential information including updates on our integrated planning and advising system (iAdvise), financial aid and summer session, a new exciting minor in the area of biomedical visualization, and a continuation of learning about our students with a presentation on retention.
Thank you so very much to our presenters and to you for spending the morning learning with us! The agenda, presentations, and materials from our speakers can be downloaded below and are available next week on advising.uic.edu:
- Summit Agenda
- Financial Aid Update (Kiely Fletcher)
- Life Science Visualization Minor (Sam Bond)
- Student Success - Data on Retention (Nikos Varelas)
- iAdvise Update (Josephine Volpe)
We had a fantastically fun time surprising our 2019 Provost's Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award winners and celebrating all of our nominees as excerpts of their nominations were displayed throughout breakfast. Congratulate this year's winners:
Massiel De los Santos (Honors College)
Bradley Mueller (LAS Pre-Professional Advising)
Rachel Najdzin (Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, Applied Health Sciences)
After ending our Summit with a surprise celebration, everyone went back to do more hard work! Then we had a great time at our the basketball game - go Flames!
If you attended Summit, we want to hear from you. Your feedback is valuable, so please complete a survey for our planning team at http://go.uic.edu/advisingsummitfeedback.