1:55 - 2:00pm Transition Break & Door Prizes

Room #1

Academic Advising & Career Coaching

Students see academic advisors as people that help them choose classes, but they also see us as knowledgeable professionals that represent the university as a whole. Whether it comes to choosing a major or exploring transferable skills and careers that are associated with their major of choice, academic advisors are often the first place students’ go to ask for help. Skillful major/career conversations can be powerful, especially in an era where major qualification and time to degree are critical.

In this workshop Emily White, Executive Director of Career Success and Danielle Mello, Associate Director of Academic Advising, will provide advisors with a toolbox to support the integration of developmental career focused advising. In this workshop we will address the following questions:

• What is the interplay between academic advising and career coaching?

• What are some major and career exploration resources academic advisors should know about?

• What are some current trends in the career development world that academic advisors should be aware of? How can students be competitive in the world of work?

• What do we know about what our students do after graduating?

• What does major migration look like at UCSC and how can college and department academic advisors support students in this process?

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Room #2

Lines of Communication: Advisors and Faculty

It's often impossible for professional advisors to carve out time for extensive conversations with faculty about our shared responsibility for student success - and many advisors don't have a clear way to do so. We know advisors can learn a lot from faculty, and faculty can learn a lot from advisors! In this session, Jody Greene, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, and Professor of Literature, and Samara Foster, Managing Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, will lead an interactive conversation to share information with advisors, and to hear directly from you. If you've ever wanted to share your thoughts with people directly connected to the faculty experience, this is the session for you. You will also come away from the session with a better understanding of the CITL and its many initiatives to support teaching and learning.

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Room #3

Supporting Students and Each Other

How do we support students struggling with mental health issues as advisors, and how do we support ourselves both individually and in advising communities? This session will describe the struggles and mental health issues that students are and will be experiencing with the transition back to in person learning, and how advisors can provide assistance to these students. Additionally, we will focus on exploring what it is like advising in this changing climate with new platforms, and identifying individual and systemic strategies for helping advisors engaged in this critical work. This session is led by MaryJan Murphy, Ph.D., Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).

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2:45 - 2:50pm Transition Break & Door Prizes

Room #1

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum:

Deconstructing Assumptions & Improving Equity in Advising

This session, led by Dr. Aaron Jones, Interim Director of Educational Opportunity Programs (EOP), will focus on the hidden curriculum in higher education. The hidden curriculum shows up in advising, counseling, decision-making, policy development, and overall student support. We hope to create a shared understanding about this concept and discuss ways to employ inclusive and equity-minded approaches to uncover the hidden curriculum and address the equity outcomes for underrepresented students.

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Room #2

Train the Trainer:

Major Migration and Exploration Conversations

We know students struggle mentally and emotionally with needing to change their major and often feel lost, like they’ve wasted time, and may be resistant to the change. Are you wondering how advisors can support students process the “change” experience, reflect on their paths and values, build resilience after such an unexpected change, and identify possible new directions? This session will draw on the experience of Cross-College Advisors' critical work with this student population over the last year and support advisors as they consider how to best engage students in these conversations.

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Room #3

What Can We Learn from the Other UCs?

Many advising offices have responded to the last year of remote advising in different ways, and we have a lot to learn from each other! What did we learn from remote advising that we might incorporate into our future practices? Join Andrea Peeters, Director of Undergraduate Advising for the Baskin School of Engineering, as she moderates a panel of advising directors from other UC campuses. Corey Hollis, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Academic Support at UCLA, Michelle Roppeau, Director of First Year and Undeclared Advising at UC Merced, and David Spight, Director of Undergraduate Undeclared Advising at UC Irvine will share their thoughts about practices they incorporated in the last year that they plan to continue.

3:35 - 4:00pm Advising Council Update

and Listening Session

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