Month: January 2025

Graduate Pathways Panel

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Good afternoon advising colleagues,

 

During Winter term, the CAS advising team has been participating in a training series called Graduate Pathways, designed to help us advise students who may be interested in grad school. This series is culminating in a panel on February 5th in Pacific Hall 030 from 3-4:30, and you are all invited to attend!

 

The Graduate Pathways Panel will feature participants who have different kinds of investments in and experiences with graduate school, from senior administrators to current students.

 

The panelists are all affiliated with UO and are:

  • Lara Bovilsky, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English
  • Patricia Lambert, Professor and Interim PhD Director in PPPM
  • Dee Jolly, PhD Student in Anthropology
  • Sofia Carlson, PhD Student in Biochemistry

 

This moderated panel will begin with set questions about the panelists’ experiences with graduate school, after which we hope to have a robust Q&A. Please feel free to bring your own burning questions about how to help students who have expressed interest in grad school!

 

Pacific 030 is a tight space, so we would appreciate having a head count in advance. Please RSVP to this event invitation in Outlook if you hope to or plan to attend.

 

In anticipation,

 

The Grad Pathways Planning team:

Ellen Fields

Sam Smith

Nate Wilkerson

ACAA Kudos and February 7th Virtual event: Coffee and Puzzle!

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Hello ACAA Family,

 

It was wonderful to connect with so many of you yesterday! A few updates and reminders from the Community Building Committee:

 

  • We wanted to share out the 45 kudos (!!) that were submitted! We of course did not have time to read all of them yesterday, so see attached to read all of the wonderful shoutouts to the advising committee! (ACAA Winter Kudos)

Virtual Coffee Chat & Puzzle Flyer

  • Our next event of Winter term will be a Virtual Coffee Chat & Puzzle on February 7th!

 

Mark your calendars for: Friday February 7th from 9am-10am to gather with advisors from across campus to socialize virtually! We don’t have an agenda for the meeting, but we encourage you all to bring your own coffee, tea, etc. and join us for a midterm break!

There will be a collaborative virtual puzzle happening in the background that you can work on or you can just chat and connect with colleagues.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/6826683354

Meeting ID: 682 668 3354

 

 

 

 

With love from your ACAA Community Building Committee,

 

Bethany Runsten

Emily Henkelman

Mariah Helm

Natalie Smith

Sarah Harder

Sinthiya Isalm

Save the Date for Our Winter Advising Workshop

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Winter Advising Workshop Flyer - Accessible PDF linked in blog post
 

Hello ACAA Members,

The Professional Development Committee is excited to announce the first event in our forthcoming series “Practice to Presentation.” The series is designed to help advisors turn their advising practice and experience into something they can share at a regional or national advising conference. The series will culminate in an advising conference at UO for folks to:

  • Share their advising knowledge
  • Learn new advising processes and approaches
  • Connect with other advisors on campus
  • Practice presenting their research in a safe and welcoming space

Our first event, “Turning Advising Practice into Shareable Knowledge” will be held on March 13th from 9:00 -11:00 am in Tykeson Commons. 

Breakfast will be included, and seats are limited to 40, so please RSVP by Feb 14 via this link.

In our winter workshop, we’ll reflect on our advising practices, brainstorm potential research questions, and collaborate on presentation projects. We will also discuss what “research” means in a professional advising context. No experience or familiarity with research, advising or otherwise, is required or expected!

We hope to see you there!

 

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Call for Nominations: 2025 All-Campus Advising Awards

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The All-Campus Advising Association welcomes nominations for the 2024-25 ACAA Awards! The awards recognize excellence in undergraduate advising provided by staff, faculty, and student-workers at the UO. To honor the university’s wide variety of advisors and their diverse contributions to student success, we invite students, faculty, staff, and alumni to nominate undergraduate advisors or mentors who demonstrate the qualities associated with outstanding advising. The criteria for each award can be found on the ACAA website. Nominations are due by Friday, January 31, 2025.

 

  • Outstanding Professional Advisor
  • Outstanding Faculty Advisor
  • Outstanding New Advisor
  • Excellence in Advising Special Populations
  • Excellence in Career Support Services
  • Excellence in Undergraduate Peer Advising*
  • Distinguished Service to Advising at UO**

 

*Nominations for this award must come from the nominee’s supervisor.

**Nominations for this award come from leadership of the various colleges, divisions, and programs at UO.

Please note: nominators may submit only one nomination per award.

 

A committee of faculty members and professional advisors will review nominations over Winter term according to a scoring rubric that can be viewed on the ACAA website. To help determine the recipient of each award, the committee will work with finalists to solicit testimonials from close colleagues or supervisors. Each awardee will receive a prize and recognition at the ACAA’s End-of-Year Celebration and Awards Ceremony on Friday, June 6 at 10am-12pm, location TBA.

 

We could use your help to spread the word, so please make use of the attached visuals. Questions can be sent to any member of the committee at the addresses listed below. Thank you for helping us celebrate our excellent colleagues!

 

Your 2025 ACAA Awards & Advisor Recognition Committee

Annie Reiva, SOJC (anner@uoregon.edu)

Jagdeep Bala, Psychology (jagdeep@uoregon.edu)

Mariah Deguzman, College of Education (mariahrd@uoregon.edu)

Greg Brock, College of Education (gbrock@uoregon.edu)

Will Brown, PathwayOregon (wbro@uoregon.edu)

 

Ducks on Track – Utilization Survey for Advising Community (with corrected link)

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Greetings!

 

Please provide valuable feedback regarding your experience using Ducks on Track. We’d appreciate it if you could complete this brief survey by January 28, 2025. Thank you for your input so we can best serve you serving students!

 

Link:  https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3dznoFu4KpWxxky

QR Code:

 

As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.

 

Sincerely,

 

Erica Abbe and Celena Simpson

 

Erica L. Abbe, MS   (She/Her)

Degree Progression Manager

Degree Progression Team | Division of Undergraduate Education and Student Success

University of Oregon

eabbe@uoregon.edu | 541.346.2206

New Year, New Colleague Connections

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Hello, and welcome back to a new term!

As we head into a new term, we will be continuing Colleague Connections—with the same connections as fall term. If, for any reason, you cannot continue with colleague connections this term, or it you need to switch connections, email Sarah at sharde@uoregon.edu. 

If you did not have the chance to sign up in the fall, but would like to now, fill out the attached (and short) survey by this Friday, January 17th: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/389d0f3f88bd4c84b12b97a73d37d86a

Colleague Connections matches two advisors from different departments, in order to get to know colleagues that you don’t work with regularly. These meetings are informal–they are not tracked and you can chat about anything you would like. You’re welcome to connect at other ACAA events throughout the fall term, but we hope that you will meet up on your own as well!

From your ACAA Community Building Committee,

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Advice: DuckWeb Maintenance this Weekend

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From Heather Gustafson on the Advising Teams Channel: O365_IntroDUCKtion and General Advising

 

DuckWeb Maintenance this Weekend

 

Thank you for reaching out about DuckWeb being down this weekend and it being a deadline that students have strong feelings about.

DuckWeb will have an updated message, but sometimes students are so frustrated by the first words that DuckWeb is down that they do not read everything or scroll down on their device.

 

We are encouraging advisors/advising groups to use OOO messages this weekend that include something like:

DuckWeb is down for extended maintenance from 7pm on Friday, 10 January, to 10pm on Saturday, 11 January.  If you are trying to drop any or all courses email registrar@uoregon.edu from your UO email and Include all course information such as:  I want to drop MATH 100 – Beginning College Math in Winter 2024.

 

If a student emails you over the weekend and does nothing else advisors can submit supporting statements for a student’s petition for missing the deadline and share the original email.  We would expect a timely petition if this situation occurs.

Jesse Nelson’s farewell reception – January 14

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Dear Colleagues,

 

As many of you may already be aware, Jesse Nelson, Assistant Vice-Provost for Advising and Accessibility, will be leaving the University of Oregon to become the Executive Director of Connected Lane County. This local non-profit supports underserved youth in their preparation for postsecondary opportunities.

 

I am grateful for Jesse’s leadership over the past four years. He joined UESS during the pandemic, fully remote, amidst endless back-to-back Zoom meetings. Even then, Jesse’s warmth, positive outlook, and collaborative approach to supporting students came through clearly. In his role, Jesse oversaw the Office of Academic Advising, TRIO Student Support Services, and the Accessible Education Center, and has been instrumental in advancing student success through policy revision, coordination of shared advising practices, and building partnerships with stakeholders at all levels of the institution. For so many across campus, including myself, Jesse has been a thoughtful, caring, and trusted colleague.

 

Please drop in for a farewell reception for Jesse Nelson on January 14, between 3:00 – 4:30pm in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge.  I hope you will join us to wish Jesse well!

 

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