Motivational Interviewing for Academic Advisors, Part II
Dr. Angelina Maia, Lecturer, Nutrition Management Program, CHST
At RIT, are students are our top priority, and we have many opportunities to offer them our support. Sessions in this category focus on the many ways we can help our students, both academically and professionally.
Dr. Angelina Maia, Lecturer, Nutrition Management Program, CHST
Dr. Heath P. Boice-Pardee
This session is facilitated by the the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships, the University Advising Office, and the Office of the Registrar.
Dr. Angelina Maia
Lecturer, Nutrition Management Program
Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition
Joe Johnston, Director, Center for Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution
David Reetz, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services
Elizabeth Hane
Faculty Associate to the Provost for General Education
College of Science
John Smithgall
Assistant Dean
College of Liberal Arts
Ethan Belcher: Assistant Registrar, Office of the Registrar
Stephanie Haynes: Academic Advisor, College of Liberal Arts
Gary Johnson: Associate Director, University Advising Office
Amy Powell: Academic Advisor, Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Lee Twyman - RIT Ombudsperson
Chelsea Petree - Director for Parent and Family Programs
Matt Lake - Senior Academic Advisor, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Marty Burris, Director, University Studies Program
Angelo Fuino, Assistant Director, University Studies Program
Dewey Lawrence, Senior Academic Advisor, University Studies Program
Carolyn DeHority, Assistant Director of Career Counseling, Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education
Janine Rowe, Assistant Director, Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education
Mandie Klingelhoffer, Assistant Director, RIT Veteran Services Office
Jenny Lopez, Veterans Integration to Academic Leadership
Chelsea O'Brien, Software Engineering Office Manager
Christina Rohr, Senior Academic Advisor, ctrvcs@rit.edu, 585-475-4961
Dr. Heath Boice-Pardee
Sara Bayerl - Student Support Specialist, Academic Support Center
Jenna Lenhardt, Academic Advisor
Dawn Herman, CRP Program Director
Alexander Sleeman, Associate Director of Intercollegiate Athletics/NCAA Compliance
Marty Gordon, Associate Professor, Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology
Inge Meffert, student support specialist
Justyna Oldziej, student support specialist
Daniele Brown, Student Support Specialist, Academic Support Center
Donna Rubin, Assistant Vice President for Student Wellness
Facilitated by RIT Starfish Team.
This session is facilitated by:
Laurie Ackles, Director, Spectrum Support Program
Janine Rowe, Assistant Director, Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education
Bernadette Lynch, Director of TRiO Student Support Services
Harold Fields, Assistant Director for the Center for Residence Life
This session is facilitated by RIT's Study Abroad Office.
This session is facilitated by:
This session is facilitated by Jeff Cox, Director of International Student Services and Stan Van Horn, Director of the English Language Center
Belinda Bryce, Director of the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP)
Colleen Johnson, Associate Director of the Academic Support Center
The Center for Professional Development and the University Advising Office have collaborated with the RIT Advisors Council to offer an exciting series of professional development workshops for faculty and staff with advising responsibilities. These workshops will offer interactive opportunities to learn more about our students and RIT services to better support our advisees. All workshops will be facilitated by RIT professionals with expertise in the workshop topics.
This workshop is part of the Professional Development for Advisors' series and introduces advisors to the cultural, communication and advising differences they might encounter when working with a deaf or hard-of-hearing student. Specific strategies and tips are shared during this session.
This session is open to the RIT community and all level of faculty and staff advisors who are interested in learning more about working with deaf or hard of hearing students.
Student athletes manage many competing priorities: academics, athletic schedules, and personal responsibilities. This workshop will provide an overview of RIT student athlete trends and discuss successful strategies academic and faculty advisors have utilized to support these students. Student athlete advocates will be available to share their personal experiences and the student perspective.
After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:
This session will explore the often uncertain and uneasy territory that comes with working with the parents of our students. We will explore the roles of students, parents and advisors in these relationships, discuss generational differences, offer guidance about how to coach parents and students to have adult conversations vs. parent/child conversations. In addition, specific topics such as handling email from families, having successful parent phone calls, how to handle student/parent meetings and ideas about how to document and follow-up on these interactions will be discussed. Advisors will have a chance to practice their skills through the use of case studies.
This session will offer strategies for maximizing the use of degree auditing in academic advising. Participants will learn how to incorporate this advising tool in their daily work with students. This session is ideal for primary academic advisors and support advisors.
A shared understanding of what is expected between student and advisor is key to building an advising relationship that is effective. This workshop will help you clarify what is optimal in a relationship and will focus on communication skills, active listening, appropriate referral, and follow-through.
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
This session will assist advisors in developing the communication and listening skills needed to be confident with providing outreach and support to students when circumstances are uncertain. This hands on workshop will give advisors the opportunity to practice their relational skills.
Case Management: A Lean Approach for Complex Circumstances
This interactive workshop provides an opportunity for professional staff advisors, both those new to academic advising and seasoned professionals, to discuss the value, characteristics and complexity of case management in an environment where’s there’s a lot to do and not enough time. The purpose of the discussion is to identify and anticipate obstacles to student success and generate strategies and resources for a lean case management approach that serves students and stakeholders in a professional manner. Participants will share their experience and best practices, and engage in a dialogue that will inspire them to apply a lean case management approach in their work with students.
Participants should bring a specific student situation and be prepared to discuss the challenges and triumphs of applying a case management approach.
Students must maintain Federal Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) in order to remain eligible to receive federal financial aid. This session will provide advisors with the tools needed to support undergraduate students who have not maintained SAP and may need to draft federal financial aid action plans to appeal for federal aid. Through this training developed by the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships, the University Advising Office, and the Office of the Registrar, participants will be provided with a SAP overview, SAP definitions, and hands on training to collaborate with undergraduate students in drafting their SAP action plans. All primary academic advisors are required to sign up and attend one session (NTID counselor/advisors will be invited to a training scheduled by NTID).
This workshop is new this year and has been designed especially for RIT advisors. Both FERPA and RIT's Records Management policy are reviewed and the following topics are covered:
Advisors who have completed FERPA for Advisors are welcome to, but not required to complete this class for the certificate.
This session refreshes our knowledge of general characteristics about our students and provides information on being a strong supervisor; beginning with the interviewing and hiring process, through the training period and continuing to motivate your student employees to be long term, strong members of your department. Topics covered in this workshop include the use of various forms, what employer responsibilities are, new social security regulations, proper training, eligibility cards, and more.
This two-hour workshop will focus on how to respond to students who are struggling, how and when to refer them, and what other options are available to RIT advisors, faculty and academic staff to support student well-being.
With the rise of internet, gaming, and social media use and the availability of connected devices at our finger tips, there has been an increase in Internet and Video Game addiction throughout our society, and more specifically in teenage and college aged adults. Many studies show that adolescents and adults are more likely be become addicted to these video games and often play on a daily basis.
Is technology at the forefront of your degree program? Have you noticed changes in sleep schedules with your students? Do you see a change in appearance with your students? Have you noticed your students withdrawing from friends or not attending classes frequently? These might be indicators of a student with an addiction. Could that addiction be an Internet or Video Game addiction?
In this presentation we will discuss the warning signs of an Internet or Video Game addicted student, ways to guide them through their academic curriculum, resources for Advisors, students, and families, and how to better advise these students.
This session will provide an introduction to motivational interviewing, as well as the key components of this approach towards helping students work through ambivalence around topics that could be hindering their academic performance, including low engagement, low academic self-efficacy, and poor time management. There will be a discussion of skills, how you can apply them to your work, and an opportunity to practice.
After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:
This session will provide training activities and exercises to build and develop the skills needed to effectively practice Motivational Interviewing in the academic advising setting. The skills to be covered include open-ended questions, the use of affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing (OARS). Activities will include how to phrase open-ended questions, identifying qualities students possess encourage motivation and resilience, as well as discussion of case studies.
The session will provide an opportunity to learn how to use the Non-Reg Tracking page and the My Advisee list in SIS for the Non-Registered Student Outreach project. This session is targeted at primary academic advisors and support advisors for undergraduate students as well as graduate program directors and graduate program support staff that manage the non-registered project. Participants will learn how to track and prioritize outreach to students who have not registered for the upcoming term.
This session will provide advisors an overview of the general education guidelines for the university.
After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:
This session will help you explore the diversity of our student population at RIT. You will learn the benefits of having a globally diverse student population and learn how to become more involved with them through communication and understanding.
You will be introduced to some of the areas of compliance that surround international students and learn how the International Student Services Office can offer you support. This session will include a narrative from one of our international students describing their experiences at RIT.
This session will provide advisors an opportunity to learn new ways to communicate with students to gain an understanding of the cause of the student’s academic difficulties. Participants will be exposed to strategies that will help them have conversations with students about motivation and self-awareness and how they affect their academic progress.
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
This training will introduce the Starfish Early Alert system. The training is designed for both undergraduate course instructors, academic advisors, faculty advisors, and support advisors. The session will take an in-depth look at the process for sending an academic alert to a student and the follow-up process that occurs with students. This one hour session allows time to answer questions and provide hands-on guidance.
How can my advising be multi-culturally inclusive when I only have 10 minutes?
This program can help us re-think how to be effective advisors for students of multicultural and demographic backgrounds, when the realities of time constraints can sometimes prevent us from effective interaction or intervention. The program will provide practical tools to help advisers consider possible assessment, interaction, application, action and referral (AIAAR), and heighten sensitivities to students of different races, gender, ethnicities, physical abilities, sexual orientations and other demographic differences that distinguish them from other mainstreamed students…10 minutes at a time.
The RIT student conduct process addresses student misconduct in an educational manner. This session focuses on educating staff and faculty on how they can assist students as advocates and mentors throughout this process. A description of the conduct process is reviewed throughout the session, along with expectations and self-care for advocates.
Motivation has a significant impact on student success. However, the components and ways to impact motivation remain elusive and ambiguous, making it one of the more difficult subjects to address with students. In this session, participants will be exposed to theories that identify a variety of factors impacting student motivation. Then, through active discussion, participants will list and develop strategies that can positively influence motivation.
In this session, participants will learn tips on how to bring up study abroad opportunities with their advisees, as well as some of the major barriers that keep students from studying abroad and how the RIT Global Office can help overcome them. Through group discussion, participants will be given the opportunity brainstorm ideas and detail best practices.
This workshop will offer advisors an overview of the history of the GI bill, including recent updates, and will share information and strategies to support students who are also veterans.
After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:
With the incidence of autism rising, a growing number of college students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are choosing to pursue their college degree at RIT. We value these students as part of our diverse community and acknowledge that some individuals may need additional support in transitioning to college. This workshop will discuss the strengths and challenges students with ASD bring to the college experience and some strategies that can be used to support their collegiate success.
The Academic Support Center (ASC) provides a variety of individual, small group, and classroom programs and services to assist and empower RIT students along the academic success continuum in reaching their academic goals. Students along the academic success continuum may be “B” students striving for an A or students at risk of being suspended, and everyone in between.
This session will focus primarily on defining and discussing warning signs of students whose academic performance is concerning, and the programs and services that would be especially beneficial for this population.
In this workshop participants will gain information about the mission, functions and procedures of the RIT Disability Services Office (DSO). Information discussed will include the differences between K-12 and post-secondary services, how a student with a disability or medical condition requests academic adjustments and/or modifications to housing or diet, and how adjustments are determined. An overview of DSO test center policies and procedures will also be presented. The workshop will conclude with an opportunity for questions.
Even though we work with students every day, it is not always easy to understand why they act the way they do or make certain decisions. This session will offer insight from psychosocial student development theories to assist staff and faculty in better understanding students and how to work with them. Psychosocial theories include how students define themselves, their relationships with others, and what they want to do with their lives.
As we work with students, it is important for us to recognize the issues they face as they learn and grow. This session will offer insight from intellectual and moral student development theories to assist staff and faculty in better understanding students and how to work with them. Theories covered in this session include how students think, how they make decisions, and cognitive and emotional development.
This workshop will shed light on the challenges facing first generation/low income college students; in particular, it will help increase your awareness of these students at RIT. This workshop will provide you with helpful strategies and useful tools to use in your work with first generation/low income students, as well as the larger population of students we serve.
After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:
This session will provide RIT Advisors with an overview of wellness issues that impact academic success and mental health. Mental health trends and precipitating and contributing factors to mental illness in college students. The following will be discussed:
· The advisor’s particular point of view and role
· Lifestyle impacts on academic performance and emotional functioning
· What we are seeing in young adults
· National Mental Health trends
· Treatment Issues
· Challenges for Advisors
Partnering with RIT Resources- how and when to access them if time permits
After completing this workshop, learners will be able to:
What do you want to be when you grow up? For some students, this answer comes easily. Others may need more guidance and support in finding the path that is best for them. This workshop will describe strategies for advisors to encourage students’ self-exploration, understanding of their career and/or major options, and to become aware of the campus resources available to assist them.
This workshop will provide information and resources for participants and will include a fun, interactive activity.
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