Week 1: Advising Support

To support faculty advisors, there will be a session every day - see agenda for details. Recordings of the sessions will be distributed on the following day.

Week 2: Meet with your Advisees

All faculty should reach out and connect with their advisees if they haven’t already this quarter and help students register for winter classes. If a student asks you something that you don’t know the answer to, use Microsoft Teams to connect with advising staff for just-in-time support 8am to 5pm.

Week 3: Debrief and Reporting Out with your Pathway

Look for a Zoom invite for this. Let’s chat about how it went - what successes, challenges, and surprises were encountered during Advising Weeks.

Monday 11/1, 2:30-4:00 pm

Kick-Off Session:

Welcome! Pathway Leads, along with our expert partners from Registration and the Advising Center, will give an overview of Advising Weeks expectations and student registration nuts-and-bolts that all faculty advisors need to know. Learn how students find their registration time and enroll in winter classes, what registration blocks or quirks to watch for, and how to address those blocks. Also learn when and how to refer students to counseling.

Facilitators: Advising, Counseling and Registration Staff

Outcomes:

• Learn the advising checklist for connecting with a new advisee

• Learn how to help advisees register for winter registration

• Interpret and solve possible registration blocks

• Learn when and how to refer students to Counseling

Zoom: https://highline.zoom.us/j/89152660268

Tuesday 11/2, 2:30-4:00 pm

Tech Tools for Making Advising Easier:

Learn and practice using Microsoft Teams to access professional advising staff in the moment, while advising students, for burning advising questions that you don’t know how to answer. Also, explore and practice a few other tools for streamlining communication with advisees, such as Bookings technology and the Remind app for group texting without exposing your personal phone number.

Facilitators: Pathway Leads, Advising Staff and Educational Technology Team

Outcomes:

• Access professional advisors in the moment, using the appropriate Microsoft Teams channel

• Use technological tools for streamlining and simplifying communication with advisees

Zoom: https://highline.zoom.us/j/88659615778

Wednesday 11/3, 2:30-4:00 pm

Learn About Transfer Requirements:

Get a refresher and a deeper dive into what the AA-DTA is, the key features, requirements, and restrictions as well as student messaging around it.

Facilitators: Raegan Copeland and Graduation Team

Outcome:

• Understand the AA-DTA degrees

Zoom: https://highline.zoom.us/j/82171179125

Thursday 11/4, 2:30-4:00 pm

Learn What Highline Offers:

Get a refresher and a deeper dive into Highline’s degree types and their key features, requirements, and restrictions.

Facilitators: Raegan Copeland and Advising Staff

Outcome:

• Understand the different degree types offered

Zoom: https://highline.zoom.us/j/86960893428

Friday 11/5, 2:30-4:00 pm

Program Maps - Faculty Advisor’s Best Friend:

Learn about Program Maps, how they can be used for advising purposes, and how to access them.

Facilitator: Liz Word

Outcome:

• Locate and use program maps to identify appropriate courses for each advisee for Winter 2022 registration

Zoom: https://highline.zoom.us/j/85301211756

Monday 11/8 - Friday 11/12 (Except Thursday 11/11 Holiday)

All faculty will use this week to connect with advisees and help them with winter registration. If you have new advisees, to begin building relationships, the meeting should be in person or on Zoom. Professional advisors will be available on Microsoft Teams, 8am to 5pm, to support faculty advisors.

Note: keep advising notes on ctcLink for each advisee with next steps for connecting again. For more info on taking notes, click here.

Monday 11/15 or Tuesday 11/16

Let’s chat about how it went - what successes, challenges, and surprises were encountered during Advising Weeks. Your Pathway Leads will send a zoom invite for this.

Advising Center Faculty and Staff Resources

https://advising.highline.edu/facultystaff-tools/

For questions, please email facultyadvising@highline.edu.