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2013 Summer Session Advisors’ Luncheon

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The Summer Session Advisors’ Luncheon is scheduled for March 21st.  We plan to have presenters speaking and answering questions about a range of issues pertaining to Summer Session.  If you or your colleagues have suggestions for specific topics of concern, please don’t hesitate to contact me.  We want this to be a valuable experience and networking opportunity, as well as a thank you, to our many campus partners who help make Summer Session successful every year.

Please contact::
Claire Cross
Director of Summer Session
Extended Campus
4943 The Valley Library
Corvallis, OR 97331-4504
Claire.Cross@oregonstate.edu

 

Next Coffee Talk scheduled for January 17th, 2013

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Please join us on January 17th from 2:00-3:00 pm  for some conversation around disability access and other topics of interest to advisors. Tracy Bentley-Townlin, Associate Dean of Student Life, will be available to give some updates from DAS and answer any question you might have.

Check out the topics for the rest of Winter Term under the menu link for the 2012-2013 Coffee Talk Schedule above.

OSU offers a world of opportunities

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On November 13, 2012, Lillian Read and Nick Fleury from the International Degree and Education Abroad Program (IDEA), shared information about their respective programs. Lillian is an Education Abroad Advisor and Nick is the Head Advisor for students seeking an International Degree. Both speakers provided us with very useful information about a program that literally provides students with a world of opportunities.

Here are some key details that I took from Lillian and Nick’s presentation:

• Housed in Heckart Lodge, the IDEA office recruits, enrolls, and supports prospective and current International Degree (ID) and Education Abroad students.

• There are four advisors, each specializing in a different global region, that help students choose a program of study, as well as specific courses to complete their program, utilizing MyDegrees as a starting point.

• Students are sponsored by one of three programs, those being exchanges, third-party organizations, or internships. These programs have different criteria and expectations, so IDEA advisors will help students determine which are available to them and will best facilitate their education goals.

• Credits earned during study abroad are counted toward the OSU residency requirement and that IDEA advisors make appropriate transcript articulations, not the Registrar. That being said, participating students should always return with course syllabi to assist the process.

• Before meeting with an IDEA advisor, students must participate in a First Steps Meeting at Heckart Lodge. These meetings are led by student ambassadors that have gone through the study abroad process and are held Monday through Friday at 12 PM and 4 PM.

• These opportunities are available for Ecampus students, but can be bit more challenging to coordinate.

• One term abroad is the equivalent of one year of language study.

• Students interested in participating in IDEA must have amassed 32 credits and have Sophomore standing.

Submitted by:
Banks Blair
Academic Advisor
Natural Resources Program
College of Forestry

Immigration 101 Workshop

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Workshop: Immigration 101 (two sessions)
Date/Time: Friday (Nov 16) 11-Noon & 2pm to 3pm.
Location:  ILLC Room
Hechart Lodge (2nd floor conference room)
Presenters: Cynthia Cox and Ismail Warsame
Description:

This session will be an introduction to the general immigration regulations, to which OSU students need to adhere.  We will begin with the students’ journeys prior to their arrival in the United States while introducing the different types of documents they gain/utilize throughout their study in the United States.  This is designed for general audience who do not necessary have a background in immigration regulations. The format will feature a combination of role playing and a visual presentation of key documents.

Put on your Mukluks and head to Alaska for the Region 8 NACADA Conference

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2013 NACADA Region 8 Conference
Anchorage, Alaska
April 29 – May 1, 2013

Conference Info:
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Regional_Divisions/region8/index.htm

SCHOLARSHIP applications due October 19th! You can receive up to $1000 toward your conference expense. Applications are due very soon but are simple to complete.
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Regional_Divisions/region8/AwardsInstructionsRegion8.htm

Alaska Trivia: Mukluks are a soft boot traditionally made of reindeer skin or sealskin that were originally worn by Arctic aboriginal people including the Inuit and Yupik

Sharing My Conference Experiences

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I recently had the opportunity to attend two professional conferences related to Academic Advising thanks to a professional development grant from OSU’s Ecampus. The first conference was the Student Success and Retention Conference which was hosted by the Oregon Council of Student Services Administrators. This annual conference was held Feb 2-3 in Portland and centered on the theme of “Uniting Oregon Education: Unifying Systems for Oregon Students’ Success”. The second conference was for the NACADA Region 8 members and was held in Portland on March 17-20 with a theme of “Student Success Across Cultures”. These were my first official conferences since taking my position advising Ecampus students in the Natural Resources program in the College of Forestry. As always I was impressed by the deep commitment to students by student services professionals. You can’t find a more caring, creative, organized group of people. I saw many familiar OSU faces and managed to make a few new connections with colleagues at other institutions.

As an advisor for online students I was hoping to see resources for working with this unique student population. While there were many workshops on using technology to advise students, very little emphasis was directed toward advising the fully online student. In the future I hope to see (or perhaps present!) more workshops and resources for advisors of online students. If you are interested in information about advising distance learners I suggest you checkout the links below.
NACADA Advising Distance Learners

OSU Ecampus Online Education Trends – Research and Trends in the field of online learning

One workshop that really impacted me was “Combat to College” presented by Christopher Petrone, LCSW. As an Ecampus advisor I work with a fairly large percentage of both veterans and active duty military students. This presentation gave me a new perspective and some great tools for working with these students. You can see the Powerpoint slides at the link below.

“Combat to College” Powerpoint Presentation by Christopher Petrone

One of the things that Mr. Petrone emphasized is that it is important to acknowledge and thank these students for their service to our country. One quote that really stuck with me was that students don’t come home from war, they come home with war. Mr. Petrone addressed the unique needs of veterans and included a powerful film which gives a glimpse of what it’s like to be a student with PTSD. The autobiographical film “Now, After” was created by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, a student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a former US Army Staff Sargent who served 5 years in the Army’s Airborne Infantry and as a Squad Leader/Convoy Commander in Iraq.

WARNING: Extremely Graphic Authentic Images and Footage from Iraq.
“Now, After”  a film by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes

 

I learned a great deal from my conference experiences and hope to apply this knowledge to the work I do every day. Thanks to all those at OSU who helped to bring these conferences to life!