9:55 - 10:00am Transition Break & Door Prizes

Room #1

HSI Initiatives: An Advising Philosophy that Promotes a Culture of Serving

The HSI Initiatives proposes to achieve our student success 2030 goals through innovative and equity-oriented educational practices. Through advising initiatives over the years, we have accelerated the holistic success of Latinx, low-income, and first-generation undergraduate, transfer, and graduate students at UCSC. Several of our practitioners, Francia Cruz, Cultivamos Excelencia Program Coordinator; Angel Dominguez, GANAS Graduate Services Counselor; Alma Orozco, GANAS Career Internship Coordinator, and Maya Woolfe, Assistant Director of EOP STEM Advising, will delve in various theories that create the HSI advising philosophy such as bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress & All about Love, and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Come learn about various ways that these theories and our advising philosophies can be rooted into your advising practice.

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Room #2

Building a Scaffolding for Student Success:

Exploring Procrastination & Effective Time Management

Students sometimes struggle with procrastination, affecting their choices and progress towards graduation. This session will review some root causes of procrastination in our student populations, suggest some tips and tools you can provide to students, and provide an opportunity for advisors to discuss best practices, using familiar scenarios. Facilitator Susan Burrowes is the Organizational Communication Consultant and Assistant Manager for the Learning & Development Department at UC Santa Cruz. She has a Masters degree in Communication, specializing in organizational communication and embedded training, and has taught as a lecturer at Santa Clara and San Jose State. Susan has also done consulting and in non-profit and tech sectors in addition to higher education.

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Room #3

Student Panel: The "New Normal" as our Students See It

To say our students have been through a lot the past few years is an understatement. This panel offers the opportunity to hear from some of our students who will reflect on their academic journeys in light of the pandemic and the uncertainty it brought. We will also reflect on how the experience of remote learning and the gradual return to mostly in-person classes has shifted or changed student’s expectations of support and guidance at UCSC.

Facilitated by Sean Malone, Advising Programs Coordinator for the Office of Campus Advising Coordination.

10:45 - 10:50am Transition Break & Door Prizes

Room #1

UCSC Faculty Panel on Student Engagement

Are you wondering what faculty have been seeing in terms of student engagement over the last two years? How have they sought to create community and belonging in the classroom? This faculty panel will share lessons learned and approaches that advisors may consider when looking for ways to support students’ academic engagement. The panel members are all recent recipients of the Excellence in Teaching Award and include Dr. Amanda Smith, Associate Professor (Literature), Dr. Daniel Wirls, Professor (Politics), Dr. Alegra Eroy-Reveles, Associate Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry).

Facilitated by Verónica López-Durán, Assistant Director for Programs Advising.

Room #2

Engaging in Conversation:

First Year Advising Across the University of California

Although our campus cultures, structures, and students are all a little different, we share the goal of supporting the success and graduation of undergraduates in meaningful ways, and for our frosh this starts with the first year. This session will feature a panel including Roseanne Fong, Director of Undergraduate Advising in the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley, Doug Easterly, Dean of Academic Advising for John Muir College at UC San Diego, and Michell Roppeau, Director of First Year and Undeclared Advising at UC Merced. Join us to learn how first year students are advised in different programs at different UC campuses, and how we might incorporate some of these approaches in our own programs.

Facilitated by Molly Segale, Lead Advisor for the Division of Social Sciences.

Room #3

Major Migration at UC Santa Cruz:

How a Look at the Data Can Influence our Advising Practice

Most UCSC advisors have worked with multiple students who have changed their majors before graduating or before leaving UC Santa Cruz. How typical is it for students at UC Santa Cruz to change their major? Are our students’ major-changing patterns consistent with other institutions? What role might major choice and declaration play in retention and graduation? Join Stacey Sketo-Rosener, Asst. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Advising, in exploring how the answers to these questions might inform our advising approach.

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11:35 - 12:00pm

Elizabeth Boretz: Towards a Racially and Culturally Sensitive Renaming of 'Academic Probation'

Dr. Elizabeth Boretz currently serves as the inaugural Assistant Vice President for Student Success since 2016 at California State University-Fullerton. She began her career as traditional tenure track faculty in the Oregon state system, where she became intrigued by her students’ academic struggles. After tenure she returned to graduate school to earn a degree is college student development. In 2005 she resigned from the faculty to embark on a new pathway dedicated supporting Student Success outside of the classroom. She spent ten years on the Founding Team of UC Merced, where she originated the Calvin E. Bright Student Success Center. This housed some ten different programs to support student transitions, special populations and learning support. Now with a focus on the CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025 goals, she leads a number of initiatives to remove administrative barriers toward elimination of achievement gaps that affect underrepresented students.

3:30 - 4:30pm

Social Hour at the Cowell Provost House Back Patio