Scheduled Events
Winter 2012
Undergraduate Advising Basics
This free 6-hour workshop is intended to provide new undergraduate advisers (those on the job a year or less) with the essentials in getting started advising on the UW campus—an overview of advising and critical student support offices on campus; an introduction to FERPA, EARS, SDB, and the Adviser Information File; and the ins and outs of general education requirements, majors, minors, and graduation procedures.
How Do My Students See Me?
In this workshop, we will explore the ways in which our individual and social identities matter in our work environment, especially in the contexts of our interactions with students. Our main objectives will be to raise our consciousness about identities in relationship to others, challenge the power of stereotypes, and examine the consequences of making decisions that are based on notions of difference and diversity. In the course of fulfilling these objectives, we will dedicate opportunities to think about advising practices that enable conditions of fairness and equality.
Our workshop facilitator is Rick Bonus. Rick is primarily an associate professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, but he also has strong interests in the conjunctions among Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies, particularly as they deal with the historical and contemporary phenomena of migration, transnationalism, interdisciplinary work, and multicultural pedagogy. He teaches courses pertaining to U.S. multiracial society, Filipino American history and culture, ethnographies of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian America, and education in relationship to race. Rick conducts workshops on teaching for the UW Faculty Fellows program and was a recipient of the UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003.
This workshop has already filled. Please email Megan McConnell to be placed on a wait list and to indicate your interest, as we will be looking into the feasibility of offering a second session at another time.
Spring 2012
The Fine Art of Giving Bad News Constructively
While the bad news advisers are often charged with giving isn’t typically life-and-death type stuff, for many students, it is utterly heart-rending. What can we advisers learn from the folks who do give life-and-death bad news, health care workers, about the fine art of giving it humanely? And how can we help negative news become constructive for our students?
Master Adviser Workshop
For advisers with 9 months to 35 years of advising experience at the UW. This $30 workshop includes lunch and is a required component of the Master Adviser Program.
