Advancing Practice

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...

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...

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...

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...

Building Your Socioemotional Competencies: How Your Self-Reflection Can Foster Students’ Sense of Belonging and Empowerment

Monday, November 1, 2021 | 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

This highly interactive workshop focuses on how our own emotions impact the way we interact with others. Participants will be able to identify skills and concepts that bring our thoughts and emotions into our awareness, ultimately contributing to an increased sense of empowerment and belonging for students. By the end of this session, you will be able to:

Identify at least one skill or concept that will contribute to an increased sense of empowerment and belonging for students, high degree of feeling...

Racism Isn’t Rocket Science — It’s More Complicated (with American Cultures)

Monday, December 6, 2021 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Thirty years ago, Professor Bill Simmons (architect of the American Cultures/AC requirement at UC Berkeley) asked “what could be so important? He was rhetorically positioning the teaching, learning and reflections on race in American life, at the heart of what would become the AC requirement (the only campus graduation requirement). Today, that same question still holds significance, and increasingly is the subject of intense debate from city hall, to governor’s mansions, to school boards. What is “up”...

Engaging with Alumni

Tuesday, July 27, 2021 | 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Learn about the new Office of Alumni Relations and the ways that UC Berkeley engages its alumni, including through the ...

Carcerality and Advising

Thursday, September 30, 2021 | 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

This Carcerality and Advising Panel serves as an introductory conversation on the connections between carceral logics (how the institutions of prisons and practices of imprisonment inform our daily lives, work, and relationships) and advising at the university. This panel will offer reflections from staff on-campus who are collaboratively imagining interventions to the status quo while conversations about abolition continue to grow throughout our communities.

Moderator: ...

Be Well For Our Fall Transition

Thursday, July 8, 2021 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Planning for our transition to the upcoming fall semester may be stressful for staff and students. Before you help students navigate the uncertainty and logistics of their return to campus, we urge you to take this time for yourself to make sure you are supported and have the resources you need.

Learn about the various aspects of the...