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Below is the list of the Master Advisor Workshops for FALL 2023
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Time: 1:00-4:00PM
Location: UC Ballroom
The pandemic put a pause on how we offered professional development, but now we would love to welcome all the advisors and student support staff who joined us in the past few years for networking and development. More information is below. This seminar is a requirement for anyone seeking initial Master Advisor Certification and will count as an event for anyone seeking recertification.
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30PM
Location: UC 204
We will view the webinar together and finish with a brief discussion. If you are unable to attend in person, feel free to register to view live on your own or on-demand on the Go2Knowledge website.
Ensuring students' total well-being and success is a priority in higher education. With counseling centers becoming increasingly overwhelmed by demand, the call for more preventive strategies has become urgent. Motivational Interviewing presents a reservoir of vital strategies and techniques that can be employed by faculty and staff, enabling them to provide support to students before a crisis arises. Challenges can range from roommate conflicts and academic advancement to mental health issues, so facilitating holistic student success is more critical than ever.
Coaching, centered around sparking motivation and guiding action toward individual goals, is emerging as a pivotal movement within higher education. However, embracing change can be complex. Students, faculty, staff, and fellow students often feel trapped in a behavior change cycle. This webinar will distill the fundamental concepts of coaching and Motivational Interviewing, offering specific strategies and inquisitive techniques that faculty, staff, or students could utilize to support a student navigating campus life and equip participants with practical takeaways for everyday campus conversations.
Objectives
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30PM
Location: UC 204
We will view the webinar together and finish with a brief discussion. If you are unable to attend in person, feel free to register to view live on your own or on-demand on the Go2Knowledge website.
Addressing academic challenges and supporting students' paths to success can be complex for both students and the support staff working with them. Success coaching equips academically challenged students with tools to reshape behaviors and cultivate resilience. Recently, student success coaching has become more popular and has the potential to be a significant campus tool. However, attempting to assess a success coaching program can be very daunting and frustrating, as it is difficult to measure concepts such as growth in learning strategies, motivation, and goal setting.
Join our webinar to explore UCA success coaches' pivotal role in guiding struggling students. Participants will also gain tangible skills for assessing and improving their coaching programs such as:
• Uncover the importance of seamlessly integrating assessment into coaching program structures.
• Gain insights to leverage Success Coaches for honing capabilities and fostering learning habits.
• Acquire practical skills to evaluate and enhance your coaching initiatives.
Objectives
• Identify key components of a Success Coaching Program
• Describe ways success coaches can help students improve their academic performance
• Examine current resources and future opportunities to aid in creating programs/services for students struggling academically
• Identify the purpose of assessing a success coaching program
• Understand the assessment cycle
• Adapt an assessment plan for their program
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30PM
Location: SU 104
Facilitated by Frank Robinson and Megan LaDow
This workshop will provide personal insight to our own story, implicit bias, and to help us understand cultural identity. In order to provide a comfortable and safe space for sharing and growth, we will only be offering this workshop live this semester. No recording will be available.
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Time: 2:00-3:00PM
Location: UC 135 and ZOOM
Facilitated by Mike Irvin
New to Navigate or need a refresher on the essential functions? This workshop is for you! During this event we will cover everything you need to know to effectively use Navigate, including:
• Setting up appointment availability
• User settings
• Student Profiles
• Syncing your Outlook and Navigate calendars
• Appointment Reports and Notes
• Setting up an appointment campaign
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 2:00-3:00PM
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Mike Irvin
*It is strongly recommended that you either attended the “Back to Basics” workshop or are already trained on Navigate before attending this session.
Have you conquered the Navigate essentials, but are left wanting more? During this workshop we will explore features you can leverage to support students and share best practices! These include:
• Advanced Search
• Student Lists and Saved Searches
• Alerts and Cases
• Reports and Analytics
• Automations
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Time: 1:00-2:30PM
Location: UC 204
We will view the webinar together and finish with a brief discussion. If you are unable to attend in person, feel free to register to view live on your own or on-demand on the Go2Knowledge website.
While a complete picture of Generation Z is still emerging, some common characteristics are clear; Gen Z students are cynical, private, entrepreneurial and hyper-aware. Also, like Millennials that came before them, Gen Z is technology-reliant and exceptionally skilled at multitasking. Recognizing the skills, traits, and preferences of the Gen Z learner, reliance on traditional instructional strategies is simply ineffective. In this webinar, we will explore challenges associated with teaching Gen Z students and identify innovative (and effective) instructional approaches to create a stimulating, engaging learning environment. Further, we will examine how technology can be integrated into the classroom to create a collaborative, dynamic learning experience that meets the needs of Gen Z students.
Objectives
• Examine strategies for creating interactive learning environments that meet the needs and preferences of Gen Z students
• Design learning activities that engage students as collaborators in the teaching-learning dynamic
• Integrate technology to engage and stimulate learning for Gen Z students
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30PM
Location: SU 109
Facilitated by Frank Robinson and Megan LaDow
Based on the research and work of Dr. Donna Hicks, we will take a deep-dive into dignity and how it affects our interactions, worldview, and culture. In order to provide a comfortable and safe space for sharing and growth, we will only be offering this workshop live this semester. No recording will be available.
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 1:00-3:00PM
Location: UC 204
We will view the webinar together and finish with a brief discussion. If you are unable to attend in person, feel free to register to view live on your own or on-demand on the Go2Knowledge website.
"There are so many factors that play into why students are coming to college as "undecided." It isn't just because they can't decide what to study; much of it has to do with societal pressures to obtain a college degree and the hundreds of majors from which students can choose. Keep in mind that most careers don't require students have a degree in something specific." ~ The University of Arizona
In this interactive webinar, we will explore the characteristics of undecided (undeclared/open/exploring) college students, discuss the advising challenges unique to this population as well as how to overcome them, and provide evidence-based best practices for helping these students with the decision-making process and thus retaining them to graduation. We will also explain the various roles that all members of the campus community can play in responding to the advising needs of undecided students. Moreover, we'll examine successful programs and initiatives from across the nation that are currently being used to respond effectively and cost-efficiently to the advising needs of undecided students – and how these programs and initiatives can be adapted to a variety of higher education environments. Equal emphasis will be placed on helping both institutions, as well as individual students, achieve their mutually-complementary objective: graduation and job placement.
Objectives
• Review the general characteristics of undecided college students, with an emphasis on their advising needs
• Review the general characteristics of undecided college students from various subpopulations including first generation, veteran, minority, LGBTQIA, rural, urban and suburban, lower socioeconomic, transfer, international, immigrant, and nontraditional
• Investigate the role of leadership in identifying and responding to the advising needs of undecided college students
• Conduct a needs analysis to determine how well their institution is doing at identifying and responding to the advising needs of undecided college students
• Discuss what can be done before undecided college students arrive on campus, including how to partner with elementary, middle and secondary schools to achieve the best possible outcome for these students concerning their advising needs
• Assess and anticipate the evolving advising needs of undecided college students about academic preparation, social integration, mental and emotional health considerations, and financial support
• Investigate the available platforms and applications that can be used to facilitate the process of career exploration and academic advising with undecided college students
• Explore evidence-based best practices in coordinating comprehensive retention initiatives related to academic advising for undecided college students
• Examine mechanisms for keeping everyone at the institution on the same page concerning meeting the advising needs of undecided college students
• Critique real-life examples of effective and ineffective ways of responding to the advising needs of undecided college students
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Time: 3:30-4:15PM
Location: UC 135 and zoom
Facilitated by Dr. Brooke Buckley
This workshop will be recorded and available on the Master Advisor Canvas page afterwards.
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30PM
Location: SU 104
Facilitated by Frank Robinson and Megan LaDow
Supported by the book, “We Can’t Talk about that at Work” by Mary-Frances Winters, this interactive workshop will provide tools that will give you the courage and confidence to engage in challenging conversations with others about race, religion, politics, and other bold topics. In order to provide a comfortable and safe space for sharing and growth, we will only be offering this workshop live this semester. No recording will be available.
Northern Kentucky University
University Center 120
Nunn Drive
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Phone: 859-572-7876
E-mail: advising@nku.edu
