Join members of the Discovery Advising & Student Services Staff Council to hear about strategies you can implement into your daily practice to enhance the student discovery process, using an engaged approach to deepen purpose-driven experiences, make reflective observations, construct critical inquiries, and partake in active experiments. Participants will walk away with an understanding of student opportunity windows for accessing relevant and impactful projects, advancing intellectual agency and power,...
Our care for students is often what drives and fulfills us as university professionals. However, this work can also drain us and lead to tension within ourselves and among our teams. Caring for ourselves is essential to the sustainability of our mission, but this must be met by a system that is equally committed to our care. Today's session will help us clarify what we need to thrive in our work as individuals and how to foster a culture of care that nurtures us as a collective. When we co-create a more healthy...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
As this unprecedented semester nears its end, our students are facing very challenging decisions, in addition to navigating complex issues around family, basic needs, well-being, and academics. We are being called upon to assist students through these difficult decisions which are unlike any we have faced before. Please join us as we think together as a community about how best to support our students. We will grapple with some challenging student scenarios and learn from each other and our panel of...
In this session tailored to student-facing staff and faculty, learn about the Center for Support and Intervention's campus community prevention initiatives, how to recognize indicators of distress in students, and about how to refer students to key campus resources. For situations that are more intense or concerning, learn how...
