Brown Bags, Coffee Talks, and Common Readings
The OAD Steering Committee Brown Bag/Coffee Talks Subcommittee organizes brown bag lunches and coffee hours for advisors throughout the academic year.
Brown Bags, Coffee Talks, and Common Readings Series
-
Brown Bag/Coffee Talks
The OAD Steering Committee Brown Bag/Coffee Talks Subcommittee organizes brown bag lunches and coffee hours for advisors throughout the academic year.
Brown bags and coffee talks for 2018-2019 are continuously being organized throughout the year. Save the dates will be out soon!
For Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 a few of the brown bags we planned were:
- OAD Brown Bag/Coffee Talk – October 23, 2017 – My.UIC Portal
- OAD Brown Bag/Coffee Talk – January 10, 2018 – “Immigration under the new administration: How can we prepare?” with Student Legal Services
In 2016 – 2017 our events were:
- OAD Brown Bag/Coffee Talk – December 7, 2016 – “Financial Literacy: Advisors and Our Students”
- OAD Brown Bag/Coffee Talk – April 6th, 2017 – 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – NACADA Webinar “Nudging Students to Success: The Integration of Academic Advising and Motivational Psychology”
- OAD Brown Bag/Coffee Talk – April 12th, 2017 – 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Optimizing Impact II: More Student Research Experiences
- OAD Brown Bag/Coffee Talk – May 24th, 2017 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – NACADA Webinar “When Students are Sad and Stay Sad: Best Practices in Advising Students with Depression”
-
Tuesday/Thursday Topics: Common Readings
The Tuesday/Thursday Topics Advisor Common Readings deliver a monthly series of advisor-to-advisor discussions.
Save the dates for 2018 – 2019:
September 11
October 11
November 15
January 29
February 21
March 26 and 28 (Advisor Week)
April 18All discussions will be held from 12:05-12:50 p.m. and will be held in LIB I-470.
For more information about the Advisor Common Reading, sign up for emails at http://go.uic.edu/TT_emails. Questions or comments? Email co-chair Alex Sainvillier, asainv1@uic.edu, or Kevin Price, kevprice@uic.edu.
The Common Readings Committee’s Mission Statement that guides their activities and discussions is:
The Common Reading Committee aims to cultivate a collaborative and student-centered forum for the exchange of ideas, resources, and best practices while fostering a sense of community among UIC advisors. This advisor-to-advisor opportunity for continued education and networking includes monthly common reading discussions (“Tuesday/Thursday Topics”).
The 2017-2018 schedule and topics were:
- September 19: Faculty Relationships (Daley Library conference room 1-470)
- October 17: Advising Undeclared Students (Daley Library conference room 1-470)
- November 16: Standardized Testing Culture (BH 121, Honors College)
- February 15: Under-prepared Students (Daley Library conference room 1-470)
- March 27: Social Media and Advising (Daley Library conference room 1-470)
- March 29: New Advisors/Wiz of Oz (BH 121, Honors College)
- April 17: Parent Interactions (Daley Library conference room 1-470)