Author: mnewton

Good afternoon and happy Monday ACAAers,

We are excited to kick off the term with information for our fall ACAA Community Building events 😊 Save the dates and watch for calendar invites to come!

1. Coffee & Kvetch – Week 2

   1. Thursday, Oct 9th @ 9-10:30am in Allan Price Science Commons

   2. This will be an informal, come/go as needed event to be in community with other advisors while UO goes through some serious budget pains. We want to really lean on our community in times of change. Bring or buy your own coffee/tea/beverage!

2. Virtual Brown Bag Lunch – Week 5

   1. Monday, Oct 27th @ Noon to 1pm on Zoom

   2. This fall we are going full show and tell time! The theme for our first Virtual Brown Bag will be “show off your baby or fur baby or plant baby or anything else you are proud of!” So grab your lunch, a photo of what you plan to share (or the real thing if you are able), and hop on Zoom!

3. Campus Tour – Week 10

   1. We are bringing back our Campus Advising Tours! This fall we will tour the School of Music and Dance and the College of Education on Thursday, December 4 @ 3pm.

   2. Optional happy hour to follow @ Agate Alley!

4. Fall Colleague Connections

   1. As we head into the new academic year, we will be restarting Colleague Connections–a great way to connect with your colleagues across campus. 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!

   2. If you would like to be matched with a colleague, please fill out this form by Friday September 26th: https://forms.office.com/r/nN6RrsZgcX. If you participated last year and would like to sign up again, please fill out the form so we can match you with a new colleague. We will be accepting new signups winter term, if fall term is busy for you!

   3. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Sarah Harder (sharde@uoregon.edu)

5. But wait, there’s more!

   1. This year we are going to offer some additional events and opportunities! Such events will be paid for on your own but go with fellow advisors. These will be released as we plan them and may include but are not limited to:

      1. Haunted Campus Tour

      2. Escape Room

      3. University Theater show(s)

Here’s to another term of building community and connections with other advisors! Please let us know if you have any questions or ideas for other events 😊

In kindness and community,
The ACAA Community Building Team
Natalie, Sarah, Emma, & Shari

Hello ACAA Colleagues,

I hope everyone is doing well and is looking forward to the start of Fall term!

I am writing on behalf of the ACAA Professional Development committee to tell you about our Fall event, Writing Your Conference Proposal, which will take place on October 22^nd from 2-4pm in Lillis 440.

This event is part of our Practice to Presentation series that we began last year and which will culminate in Winter term with the UO Advising Conference. However, it is not at all required that you have attended any of our previous events!

Please RSVP by Friday, October 10th by filling out this short form. We will send a calendar invite to the folks who are able to attend.

In this workshop, we will be discussing how to craft a successful conference presentation proposal. We will discuss common elements of successful proposals, different formats for conference presentations in higher ed, proposal evaluation rubrics and review processes, and more! We will also be working through some activities designed to get participants thinking about crafting a proposal of their own, either for the upcoming UO Advising Conference or for a regional or national conference. Even if you don’t have a particular topic or conference in mind, we hope that this workshop will help you think through some ideas and possibilities of things you could propose in the future.

If you have started thinking about a presentation you would like to propose, please feel free to bring any drafts or ideas to the event! There will be space to discuss proposals that are at any stage of the process.

Finally, we are excited to be able to offer this event with a robust hybrid modality. Virtual participants can expect to be given opportunities to participate in the discussion happening in the room and to have the chance to interact with each other in a virtual space with a dedicated virtual presenter/moderator.

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you in October!

The ACAA Professional Development Committee

Emma, Angela, Lauren, Jennifer, Cat, Myrna, Sam

Sam Smith, PhD (he/him)
Academic and Career Advisor
“Social” Social Sciences; College of Arts and Sciences
CAS Advising | University of Oregon