All faculty and staff are invited to come and build your understanding of resources and opportunities for international student development, academic and career support. We hope you will join us to connect with other staff and faculty on these topics, and have the opportunity to consult with experts. This is a drop-in space, we recommend joining for at least 30-45 minutes but we hope you will stay as long as you would like! Questions to get answered here: 

The Lindahl Academic Center is hosting a Campus Advisor Event and would like to invite you and your advising staff to join us to learn more about your partnership with the Lindahl Academic Center and Athletics. We will discuss the various ways we collaborate with you and our campus partners, identify academic resources within our office used to support our students, and highlight pertinent NCAA changes and eligibility rules. We will guide you through a tour of various Athletic facilities here at Minnesota, provide pizza for lunch, and host a free raffle for various Gopher gear items!

The Pre-Health Student Resource Center would like to invite advisors, career staff, faculty, and other student services staff who work with pre-health students on campus to join us on Thursday, May 8th for our Spring Pre-Health Enrichment Session!

This information session will give a quick overview of the NSE program and then dive deeper into the credit transfer process and other things relevant to academic advisors.

See Advising Training & Events Google Calendar

As the advising community ramps up for another busy summer, the Advisor Training Work Group is planning annual training events to help prepare advisors for new student orientation. There will be two virtual sessions available focusing on orienting both first-year and transfer students. Part 1 will focus on updates from campus partners. Part 2 will focus on registration preparation. Training topics include: 

Part 2:

Description 

You are invited to join a presentation discussing the various types of employment-based visas (including H-1B) and paths to permanent residency (“green card”). The presentation will be done by a local, experienced immigration attorney, Jesse Goldfarb at the firm Nilan Johnson Lewis.

Handshake is the UMN's career management platform giving students and alumni access to internships, jobs, events, fairs, and networking opportunities. We want all our students to have access to this valuable resource, so we need your help! Join us to learn about the student experience in Handshake, and how you can help students make the most out of Handshake. 

*Please note, this is our second introductory Handshake training of the year and will cover much of the same information as the October webinar.