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Concurrent Session 1 ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵics and Presenters

John Harrelson

Sign-in to complete the in-person Module 3 Advisor Training component. Attendance will be shared with Carolyn Haynes. 

Location: 162 Upham Hall

Emily Akil, Academic Advisor, & Natalie Meyer, Academic Advisor Farmer School of Business

Efforts to provide truly holistic advising are often stifled by the Inaccessibility of data that lives within decentralized institutional silos. This interactive session will enable participants to identify and prioritize sources of potentially untapped data, explore strategies for collaborating with campus stakeholders to harness it, and examine the tradeoffs between using data for proactive and reactive interventions and outreach. Examples of departmental data being used to improve advising and ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ success outcomes will also be presented.

Location: Pavilion B

Carol Olausen, Director, & Sara Pate, Administrative Assistant American Culture and English (ACE)

In this session, we will present the role of ACE on campus as well as the manner in which ACE has leveraged its use of the social networking platform WeChat to connect with ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs and support transition to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ. Participants will see how to set up their own WeChat accounts and invite others to participate with them, as well as how to promote events and reach ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs both individually and in groups. [smartphone recommended for this session]

Location: 2042 Wiikiaami Rm

Hope Sweeney, Accommodation Coordinator, & Mark Gross, Associate Director Office of Student Disability Services

Student Disability Services (SDS) is the responsible party for qualifying ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs for accommodations and services at ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ. Using its new online case management system which is called Students Accessing Miami (SAM), SDS is now able to track and serve ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs in ways that support the recruitment and retention efforts of the institution. In this session, participants will gain an understanding of the processes followed from the time a ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ completes an application for accommodations and services to the point of communicating with instructors through the faculty notification letter email that is sent, scheduling a test, and requesting alternative formats. Using the data captured through SAM, participants will gain an understanding of how staffing has changed to allow the director to focus on more outreach to the campus community, change the model of how ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs with dual diagnosis and ADHD are served, and provide the framework of why SDS accommodation coordinators reach out to the advising community to help facilitate changes to a ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ's schedule when appropriate

Location: Pavilion A

Concurrent Session 2 ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵics and Presenters

John Harrelson

Sign-in to complete the in-person Module 3 Advisor Training component. Attendance will be shared with Carolyn Haynes.

Location: 162 Upham Hall

Christina Carrubba-Whetstine, Director of the Rinella Learning Center

I will present data from the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI). This instrument is administered to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs on academic warning and academic probation to assess primary areas of learning concern. Strategies for talking with ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs about these learning concerns will be discussed.

Location: Pavilion B

Pathways to Student Success

Cathy Moore, Academic Advisor - Pathways Program & College Credit Plus

Pathways is a short-term, intensive program designed to develop and promote alternatives for ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs placed on the wait list when seeking admission to ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ's selective Oxford campus. Students invited to participate in Pathways have solid academic records. Rather than lose them to another institution, they are given the opportunity to begin on a regional campus. The program allows ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs to move from a regional campus to the Oxford campus after one semester. Pathways ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs enjoy benefits such as mentoring, priority class registration, guaranteed housing assignments, a dedicated academic advisor, and special scholarship opportunities.

Location: 2042 Wiikiaami Rm

Rose Marie Ward, Professor and Director, Center for Teaching Excellence

In spring 2016, data were collected from faculty and staff concerning Miami's alcohol climate. A small percentage of classroom situations and office hours were impacted by substance use. In response, many respondents reported that the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ was asked to leave and police were called. Themes from the data will be discussed as will ways to address this in the advising situation

Location: Pavilion A