UofSC Academic Advisor Training

This is a 4-part, cohort-style education series that will allow participants to self-reflect, consider the meaning of DEI in their own lives and advising, and develop a plan for intentionally incorporating DEI into their personal & professional lives. Part 1: Critical Self-Reflection.

This session provides instruction for processing exceptions in DegreeWorks. Presenters: BJ Beckham, Associate Registrar. Amanda Shores, Director of Transfer Advising & Retention Initiatives.

This session provides instruction for processing exceptions in DegreeWorks. Presenters: BJ Beckham, Associate Registrar. Amanda Shores, Director of Transfer Advising & Retention Initiatives. Microsoft Teams meeting. Join on your computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting.

This workshop will cover the background, impact, and current utilization of Flipped Advising at USC with specific examples from the Department of Biological Sciences Flipped Advising practice. The goal will be to leave with greater knowledge of the impact and process of creating a flipped advising practice as well as have time to brainstorm ideas to incorporate it into your own practice.

As advisors, we have the ability to cultivate a culture of student accountability in our advising practices to empower students to engage in responsible decision-making about their academic and professional goals. This training aims to cover the importance of student accountability in advising, guidance on how to incorporate accountability messaging, and encouraging student utilization of advising and student support resources.

This will session will provide an overview for the semester of all the intervention tasks and how EAB/technology can enhance and support the advisor driven outreach. Click to view link to Intervention Repository. Presenters: Alyssa Stephens & the Academic Intervention Community of Practice.

UAAs will send messaging to identified students about their “at-risk” status in identified courses, and why success in the course is important. This session will cover how advisors can use the messaging to encourage students to to discuss options and potential referrals for the “at-risk” course.

Students need to consider the financial implications of their academic related decisions such as adding/dropping courses, changing majors, withdrawing from the University, etc. This session will bring representatives from the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships and the Office of the Bursar together to discuss common academic decisions and resulting financial consequences. Advisors will gain an understanding of how to foster student awareness of financial consequences and make appropriate referrals.

This session provides best practice strategies on how to strategically and efficiently build advising appointment workflow and provide guidelines for entering appointment notes. Presenters: Jane Bouknight, Sr. Program Manager of Advisor Training & Development.

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.

Event Description & Learning Outcomes Coming Soon... Presenters: Amanda Heinsman, Academic Advisor and First Generation Coordinator. Paulia Williams, Gamecock Guarantee Coordinator, TRIO Opportunity Scholars Program.

Many professionals within and outside of higher education don't utilize Excel to its full potential. Some just don't know what Excel can do for them. Others may be intimated by the idea of memorizing complex formulas and functions. In this workshop, participants will learn several useful intermediate (to slightly advanced) Excel techniques that can optimize their work with data and information. Participants will practice using many of the functions and will have the opportunity to discuss when they might use each in their own work.

This session will provide information on USC's Honors College including the students, curriculum, DegreeWorks utilization, and Honors advisement. Learning Outcomes: Understand how Honors College requirements can be integrated into course selection and advisement for Honors students.

A review of processes and procedures of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Office of the Registrar. Presenters: Undergraduate Admissions. Office of the University Registrar. Amanda Shores, Director of Transfer Advising & Retention Initiatives - 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.

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.

Learn more about the My UofSC Experience initiative & how to incorporate it into advising conversations as it provides a more holistic view of a student’s college experience. **(Please bring a laptop to this presentation if you are able)**. After this presentation, you will be able to:

UAAs will review assigned advisees’ course registrations each semester to ensure enrollment in degree-applicable courses, prerequisites met, and sufficient credit hours. This session will cover how to review student records to ensure degree-applicable credit and foster discussion of considerations and strategies to be used in this initiative.