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Calendar of Events

Fall 2023

This is a 4-part, cohort-style education series that will allow participants to self-reflect, consider the meaning of DEI in their own lives and advising, and develop a plan for intentionally incorporating DEI into their personal & professional lives. *Attendees will register once for all sessions.

Part 1: Critical Self-Reflection

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This is a 4-part, cohort-style education series that will allow participants to self-reflect, consider the meaning of DEI in their own lives and advising, and develop a plan for intentionally incorporating DEI into their personal & professional lives. *Attendees will register once for all sessions.

Part 2: Writing Your DEI Story

This in-person session provides instruction for processing exceptions in DegreeWorks. Advisors are required to attend one session offered in preparaton for the implementation of CPoS. 

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This virtual session provides instruction for processing exceptions in DegreeWorks. Advisors are required to attend one session  offered in preparaton for the implementation of CPoS. 

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This workshop will cover the background, impact, and current utilization of Flipped Advising at USC with specific examples from the Department of Biological Sciences Flipped Advising practice. The goal will be to leave with greater knowledge of the impact and process of creating a flipped advising practice as well as have time to brainstorm ideas to incorporate it into your own practice. 

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This training aims to cover the importance of student accountability in advising, guidance on how to incorporate accountability messaging, and encouraging student utilization of advising and student support resources.

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This is a 4-part, cohort-style education series that will allow participants to self-reflect, consider the meaning of DEI in their own lives and advising, and develop a plan for intentionally incorporating DEI into their personal & professional lives. *Attendees will register once for all sessions.

Part 3: Developing an Action Plan

This will session will provide an overview for the semester of all the intervention tasks and how EAB/technology can enhance and support the advisor driven outreach.

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This is a 4-part, cohort-style education series that will allow participants to self-reflect, consider the meaning of DEI in their own lives and advising, and develop a plan for intentionally incorporating DEI into their personal & professional lives. *Attendees will register once for all sessions.

Part 4: Putting Your Plan Into Action

UAAs will send messaging to identified students about their “at-risk” status in identified courses, and why success in the course is important. This session will cover how advisors can use the messaging to encourage students to to discuss options and potential referrals for the “at-risk” course.

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This virtual session will bring representatives from the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships and the Office of the Bursar together to discuss common academic decisions and resulting financial consequences. Advisors will gain an understanding of how to foster student awareness of financial consequences and make appropriate referrals.

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This virtual session provides best practice strategies on how to strategically and efficiently build advising appointment workflow and provide guidelines for entering appointment notes.

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This workshop will introduce advisors to the value of contributing to scholarship, the process of drafting and submitting manuscripts for publication, and will explore a variety of venues for publication including organization blogs, practitioner newsletters, journals, and even scholarly books.

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In this workshop, participants will learn several useful intermediate (to slightly advanced) Excel techniques that can optimize their work with data and information. Participants will practice using many of the functions and will have the opportunity to discuss when they might use each in their own work.

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This session will provide information on USC's Honors College including the students, curriculum, DegreeWorks utilization, and Honors advisement

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This workshop will introduce advisors to the value of contributing to scholarship, the process of drafting and submitting manuscripts for publication, and will explore a variety of venues for publication including organization blogs, practitioner newsletters, journals, and even scholarly books.

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Learn more about the My UofSC Experience initiative & how to incorporate it into advising conversations as it provides a more holistic view of a student’s college experience.

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This session will cover how to review student records to ensure degree-applicable credit and foster discussion of considerations and strategies to be used in this initiative.

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* 'New Advisor Series' training


Past Events & Available Recordings

Summer 2022

July 12, 2022 | Caseload Scrub Intervention - A 'How To' for Advisors

Fall 2022

August 8, 2022 | Career Champions for Advisors

August 10, 2022 | Opportunity Scholars Program: What Advisors Need to Know

August 30, 2022 | Student Disability Resource Center: What Advisors Need to Know

August 31, 2022 | Progress Reports/Alerts Intervention - A 'How To' for Advisors

September 14, 2022 | Part One: Transfer Student Series

September 14, 2022 | Advising Workflow & Appointment Notes

October 4, 2022 | Academic Common Market for Advisors

October 6, 2022 | Advising Technology Overview

October 12, 2022 | Part Two: Transfer Student Series

November 2, 2022 | Transfer Student Advising & Retention Updates

November 4, 2022 | Developing Your Personal Advising Philosophy

November 9, 2022 | Non-Registered Intervention - A 'How To' for Advisors

November 10, 2022 | My USC Experience for Advisors

November 30, 2022 | Part Three: Transfer Student Series

December 1, 2022 | DegreeWorks Exceptions Management

December 7, 2022 | DEI Self-Development Series, Part Two: Writing your DEI Story

December 13, 2022 | DEI Self-Development Series, Part Three: Developing an Action Plan

December 16, 2022 | Appreciative Advising Workshop*

December 21, 2022 | DEI Self-Development Series, Part Four: Putting Your Plan Into Action

Spring 2023

January 11, 2023 | A Workshop on Building a Pre-Advising Worksheet

January 12, 2023 | Cases in EAB - Technology for Academic Interventions: A 'How To' for Advisors

January 17, 2023 | Pre-Professional Advising (OPPA): What Advisors Need to Know

January 18, 2023 | Transfer Student Series: Part Four

January 19, 2023 | Writing for Scholarly Publications Series: Part One

January 25, 2023 | Education Abroad: What Advisors Need to Know

January 26, 2023 | Progress Reports/Alerts Intervention: A 'How To' for Advisors

January 31, 2023 | Advising International Accelerator Program (IAP) Students: What Advisors Need to Know

February 1, 2023 | Minor Spotlight: Music

February 1, 2023 | Transfer Student Series: Part One

February 2, 2023 | Safe Zone for Advisors

February 6, 2023 | Advising Workflow & Appointment Notes*

February 7, 2023 | Overview of Veteran & Miliary Services & Green Zone for Advisors

February 8, 2023 | Office of Undergraduate Research: What Advisors Need to Know

February 8, 2023 | Utilizing Data Warehouse as an Advisor

February 9, 2023 | Be the Change You Wish to See: Fostering Resiliency in Advising

February 10, 2023 | Minor Spotlight: Informatics

February 14, 2023 | Orientation: Using VZ to Pull Reports - Tips and Tricks for Advisors

February 15, 2023 | Growing With Your Sophomores: Sophomore Advising Strategies

February 21, 2023 | Writing for Scholarly Publications Series: Part Two

February 21, 2023 | Army ROTC @ USC: What Advisors Need to Know

February 24, 2023 | Anne Frank Center Tour

February 28, 2023 | Navy ROTC @ USC: What Advisors Need to Know

March 2, 2023 | Transfer Student Series: Part Two

March 14, 2023 |Developing Your Personal Philosophy Workshop

March 15, 2023 |Intermediate Excel Use for Advisors

March 16, 2023 | My USC Experience for Advisors

March 21, 2023 | The Student Experience with New Student Orientation

March 22, 2023 | Minor Spotlight: Forensics

March 28, 2023 | Minor Spotlight: Education

March 29, 2023 | Air Force ROTC @ USC: What Advisors Need to Know

March 30, 2023 | Transfer Student Series: Part Three

April 6, 2023 | Transfer Student Series: Part Four

April 24, 2023 | Major Spotlight: Cyber Policy & Ethics

May 1, 2023 | Major Spotlight: Global Studies

May 10, 2023 | Scholarship Risk Intervention: A 'How To' for Advisors

May 10, 2023 | Non-Registered Intervention: A 'How To' for Advisors

May 16, 2023 | FERPA Considerations in Advisement

May 24, 2023 | Appreciative Advising Workshop

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