Advancing Practice

Building Transfer Student Community in an Online Environment

Monday, July 27, 2020 | 10:00 - 10:45 a.m.

Join campus experts and a panel of students for a discussion about how to facilitate community-building for incoming transfer students in our current remote learning environment. We will focus on a few specific programs and practices so you have ideas for concrete steps to take to welcome your transfer students to campus and get them started building their community at Cal.

Lorena Valdez is the Director of the Transfer Student Center in the Centers for Educational Equity and Excellence Michele Rabkin...

Building Community and Combating Social Isolation

Monday, March 8, 2021 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

How might we help Berkeley students feel belonging and connection while being physically isolated? Find out from a panel of Fung Fellows who will share their insights and innovative solutions from their 2020 fall semester Human-Centered Design Challenge addressing student isolation. Brief demonstrations and Q&A...

Appreciations and Updates for Our Student Services Community

Monday, June 8, 2020 | 10:00 - 11:15 a.m.

Please join us for this very special student services community event with Chancellor Carol Christ, EVCP Paul Alivisatos, VC Cathy Koshland, VC Steve Sutton, VC Oscar Dubon, Vice Provost and Dean Lisa Garcia Bedolla, and Academic Senate Chair Oliver O’Reilly. Let's come together as a community to mark the end of the semester and to take a moment to reflect on all we have accomplished together. We will also provide updates on what we know about the Fall 2020 semester.

Basic Needs Update: What have we learned from COVID-19?

Monday, June 1, 2020 | 10:00 - 11:00am

Presenters: Kiyoko Thomas, Basic Needs Manager, Ruben Canedo, Basic Needs Committee Chair, and others

During SP20, many students struggled with finding adequate housing and food, health/medical care, and basic technology. Even before COVID-19, many students in our community were in crisis. The pandemic exacerbated their situation and brought additional students into crisis. What have we learned from this semester and how can the campus incorporate these lessons for the future?

Learn how the...

Advising for Discovery: Entrepreneurship and Creative Projects at UC Berkeley

Monday, November 7, 2022 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Great numbers of students seek to get involved in entrepreneurial and creative projects, and UC Berkeley has a growing collection of opportunities to support these students. This session brings together faculty and staff experts in these domains to help you understand HOW to discuss entrepreneurial and creative project pathways with your students and WHERE to direct your students to help them get started.

Moderator: Sean Burns, Discovery Hub

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Advising for Discovery Part 2: Engaging Underrepresented Students in Meaningful Discovery

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Join us to hear advising colleagues share ideas on how to meaningfully engage underrepresented students in discovery experiences. Panelists will offer approaches to breaking down a range of barriers by engaging students about their lived experiences in relation to valuable co-curricular projects. Participants will walk away with tools to initiate and sustain meaningful conversations with students via the golden intersection of passion, purpose, planning and process: What they love and care about; What...

Advising for Discovery Part 1: Advising Undergraduate Students on their Discovery Journey

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Advisors and student services staff across campus are uniquely positioned to initiate and sustain meaningful conversations with undergraduate students about how to envision and implement discovery projects - immersive experiential learning projects in research, service, the arts, and entrepreneurship. This advising work fits within a campus-wide Discovery Initiative to transform undergraduate education to support all students on a journey of engaged creativity and self-actualization. In this...

A Blueprint for Academic Success: Transformative Academic Development

Monday, April 11, 2022 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

The Athletic Study Center has operationalized its practices, connected to its mission, values and goals, leading to the organic development of a departmental strategic plan. This presentation will focus on our conceptual framework and some of the practical methods we use to achieve academic success for Berkeley's exemplary student athletes...

Post Pandemic Advising: Imagining a Hybrid Approach from Lessons Learned

Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Featuring the Student Advisory Council on Undergraduate Education (SACUE)

How have remote student services impacted the Undergraduate Experience? Come learn about our panelists' experience this year navigating virtual services, advising and more! Hear from members of the Student Advisory Council on Undergraduate Education, who will...

Personal Writing for Self-Care

Thursday, December 16, 2021 |10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Today’s Advancing Practice session is just for YOU and your emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. During our time together, we will practice a variety of personal writing exercises as a way of tuning in to our inner voices of wisdom and creativity. In a...