These two trainings are the first of many opportunities for UHP and campus colleagues to collaborate and share knowledge about Honors students and the curricular and program information that will be helpful for advisors and advising supervisors:

The New Advisor Group is an informal way to meet other new and new-ish advisors while learning more about the UMNTC campus. They meet monthly and their approach is to include both group discussion and connection time, in addition to visiting many of the offices across campus to which we often refer our students. This session will feature Smart Learning Commons & Student Academic Success Services.

The New Advisor Group is an informal way to meet other new and new-ish advisors while learning more about the UMNTC campus. They meet monthly and their approach is to include both group discussion and connection time, in addition to visiting many of the offices across campus to which we often refer our students. This session will feature Athletics and Land O' Lakes Center for Excellence.

The Learning Abroad Center offers a training each semester for new and newish academic advisers, career counselors, and student services staff who work with undergraduate students interested in studying abroad. 

In the training we cover the typical advising, application, and enrollment processes.  We will also discuss academic, financial, and personal planning as well as related advising resources to help students find an appropriate program and prepare for an experience abroad.

Presenters:

Please join a conversation hosted by representatives from the Academic Advising Network (AAN), the Advising Steering Committee (ASC), and the Advising Coordinators Group (ACG). This conversation-based session will focus on gathering input from the advising community about advisor experiences.

You have likely heard about the importance of getting to know your students and incorporating their linguistic and cultural backgrounds in the classroom. You may be less sure about ways to do that or you are looking for new ways to do this. In this workshop you will learn about an activity for inviting students to reflect on and share their linguistic and cultural identities and brainstorm ways you can build on these new understandings.

In this session, a panel of multilingual students will share their experiences on a monolingual campus. Students will respond to a series of pre-set questions, and there will also be time for Q and A. Students are experts of their own experiences in their classes and on campus. Hearing from them directly provides valuable insight and ideas for improving their experiences and learning.

Ready, set, let’s focus on fun! We’ll turn to current trends in higher education of infusing more play in instruction. Lisa Forbes, Professors at Play, states that “Play has the ability to create connections, reduce stress, is student-centered and humanistic, allows students to overcome anxiety and fear of vulnerability, primes them for learning, is a vehicle for application of theory and skill acquisition, and produces longer-lasting learning.”

This will be an open conversation to discuss challenges and opportunities afforded by having international and multilingual students on campus and in classrooms. Come with questions and observations to share and discuss with colleagues. This session is part of a series of Conversations on Centering International Students: Supporting Multilingual and Intercultural Learning.