The Advisor Training Workgroup has planned a series of Zoom webinars for academic advisors ‘Focusing on Essential Needs for Students.’ Given our current pandemics, this training series is inspired by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs starting with a webinar focusing on campus resources for students’ most basic survival needs and moving towards resources for students’ more complex needs. At these sessions, you can expect to get updated information about how campus services are being offered so you can make effective referrals for students.

The Advisor Training Workgroup has planned a series of Zoom webinars for academic advisors ‘Focusing on Essential Needs for Students.’ Given our current pandemics, this training series is inspired by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs starting with a webinar focusing on campus resources for students’ most basic survival needs and moving towards resources for students’ more complex needs. At these sessions, you can expect to get updated information about how campus services are being offered so you can make effective referrals for students.

This session provides advisors new to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities a big-picture look at undergraduate advising on campus. We will discuss the organization of the campus and introduce the key groups and players in undergraduate education. What are the roles and goals of advising? What are some of the key campus resources and tools for advisors? Who are these people or groups that are sending me all kinds of email? When do things happen during the year?

The New Advisors Group is a great way to build community and skills across the campus advising community. We welcome all advisors who consider themselves new or new-ish (be that new to campus, new to academic advising, or both)! The New Advisors Group typically gathers once a month, often near a resource or in a space which advisors regularly discuss with students. This session features an end-of-semester lunch and St Paul campus tour, including a visit to the Meat and Dairy store.

Our world is becoming increasingly rich and complex as more and more individuals become open about the challenges they face as people with disabilities. Whether the barrier is physical, academic, employment-related, or attitudinal, we are all responsible for understanding how barriers diminish access for some University community members. In this workshop, participants learn strategies for advancing access for everyone on our campuses.

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For many people, religion and spirituality are deeply personal, and create values that offer a sense of purpose and community. However, in public contexts, religion may be seen as either impolite to talk about or as dangerously divisive. In this workshop, we will explore how religious, spiritual, and humanist identities interact with other social identities in a historical and modern context shaped by power and privilege, and address the complexity of balancing religious and spiritual expression with the separation of church and state within a public context.

This session provides advisors new to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities a big-picture look at undergraduate advising on campus. We will discuss the organization of the campus and introduce the key groups and players in undergraduate education. What are the roles and goals of advising? What are some of the key campus resources and tools for advisors? Who are these people or groups that are sending me all kinds of email? When do things happen during the year?

Our world is becoming increasingly rich and complex as more and more individuals become open about the challenges they face as people with disabilities. Whether the barrier is physical, academic, employment-related, or attitudinal, we are all responsible for understanding how barriers diminish access for some University community members. In this workshop, participants learn strategies for advancing access for everyone on our campuses.

Register now!

When attempting to navigate new systems at the University of Minnesota, international students can be confused by the American approach to conversations, instructions, and explanations. Likewise, staff and faculty often wish they understood the cultural expectations, communication styles, and accents of international students.