UofSC Academic Advisor Training

The Minor Spotlight is intended to provide advisors with an overview of different academic minors at USC. Minor Spotlights will be 30-minutes, remote via Teams, and will cover the following: Who to recommend for the minor (common students/majors who choose the minor).

This session will provide an overview of Air Force ROTC at USC, the student experience & requirements, and specific advising considerations. This session will take place virtually via Microsoft Teams. The link to join will be emailed to participants in a reminder email the day before the event.

Intentional Advisement of Transfers. Participants will: 1. Provide feedback regarding common issues when advising transfer students, and, 2. Develop an action plan for transfer advising. Presenter. Amanda Shores. Director of Transfer Advising & Retention Initiatives. University Advising Center.

Transfer Series Discussion - What do we do now?. Presenters. Amanda Lucas, Director of Transfer Advising & Retention Initiatives - University Advising Center. Bill Brown, Coordinator of Transfer Advising and Online Programs Support - University Advising Center.

All University of South Carolina advisors who are interested in writing are encouraged to contribute to the expanding professional literature on the field of academic advising, the first-year experience, and student transitions. This workshop will introduce advisors to the value of contributing to scholarship, the process of drafting and submitting manuscripts for publication, and will explore a variety of venues for publication including organization blogs, practitioner newsletters, journals, and even scholarly books.

The Major Spotlight is intended to provide advisors with an overview of different academic majors at USC. Major Spotlights will be 30-minutes, remote via Teams, and will cover general information about the major and what the student can expect to learn. Featured Major: Cyber Ethics and Policy.

The Major Spotlight is intended to provide advisors with an overview of different academic majors at USC. Major Spotlight will be 30-minutes, remote via Teams, and will cover general information about the major and what the student can expect to learn. Featured Major: Global Studies.

In partnership with the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, academic advisors reach out to students who are at risk of losing their LIFE Scholarship, Palmetto Fellows Scholarship, or General University Scholarships. This session will cover the logistics of this initiative and offer participants an opportunity to ask questions and brainstorm effective strategies. View more information about this intervention here.

Academic advisors intervene with students who have not registered for the upcoming term in a timely manner—after students have been advised and the opening week or two of registration has passed. This session will cover how advisors can send gentle nudges through email and text messages that seek to identify students’ barriers to registration.

FERPA is a complicated federal regulation that academic advisors are responsible for understanding and upholding. This session will will cover the FAQs and facts that academic advisors need to consider related to release of student information. Recommended best practices for release of student information to ensure compliance with FERPA will be identified.

This in-person workshop will focus on providing an overview of this exciting movement within the academic advising community called Appreciative Advising. The presentation is based on the book titled, The Appreciative Advising Revolution. The six phases of Appreciative Advising – Disarm, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver, and Don't Settle – will be defined. Participants will not only learn what each phase means, but they will also have the opportunity to learn how to implement each of these phases.