2ndAgvisors Meeting–Spring 2015

Tuesday February 24

11:00am-1:00pm

Saguaro Hall 219

Agenda:

  • Welcome
  • Department/School highlight – Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Plant Systems
  • Recruitment – Frank Santiago
  • UA Retention Effort
  • Spring 2015 non-enrolled FR that left in good academic standing will receive email encouraging them to return (approx.460 did not enroll; approx. 200 )
  • Wildcat Academy
  • New Transfer StudentOrientations
  • UAccess Analytics – Agents (student reports)
  • On-Line Degree Audit process
  • Degree Audit Worksheet (DAW) workflow and process
  • Will start working on a workflow list with list of advisors and role (this will affect what access will be given)
  • Reports (UAccess Analytics)
  • Online process currently being tested
  • Reminder: CALS Commencement information is not on the application. Students will be sent commencement information via snail mail and email in March. In the meantime direct students to the following link for general information: and to Cecilia Mazon for specific questions ( * 520-621-3613 * Saguaro Hall 210). If interested in volunteering, contact Cecilia Mazon.
  • CALS Convocation Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 9:00am at McKale Center
  • UACommencement Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 7:30pm at Arizona Stadium
  • Graduation filing deadlines: Feb 1 for May and August; Sept 1 for December and Winter.
  • If the 1st falls on a weekend the deadline will default to the following business day. For Spring 2015 the deadline for May and August candidates was Monday 2/2.
  • March 23rdstudent list will be run to get list of names for commencement booklet. April 2nd by noon is the absolute deadline to have name listed on the university wide May commencement booklet.
  • General Education proposal change
  • General University Petitions - feedback on current process
  • Email announcements and Newsletter
  • CALS PALS Peer Mentors (application available in March)
  • Announcements
  • For April meeting our guest speaker will be Mike Staten, Assistant Dean, Career Center - Industry and Commerce, Director, Take Charge America Institute and Professor for Norton School of FCS: Commerce competency

Save the Dates:

  • Spring 2015Agvisor Meeting Dates:
  • Jan. 27, Feb. 24, March 24, April 28(Tuesdays) from 11:00am-1:00pm at Saguaro Hall 219
  • May 12 Retreat from 9:00am-1:00pmat TBD
  • Summer 2015 Orientation Dates (save the dates):

Freshmen: May 27,29, June 1, 8,12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, 29, August 14, 18 (Advising: 2-4pm)

Honors sessions underlined above for your reference

International: August 11-13 with advising on either the 12th or 13th (TBD)

Announcements:

  • NACADA National Advising Conference will be in Las Vegas, NV from Oct. 4-7, 2015 (proposal submission deadline is Feb. 26)
  • NACADA Regional Advising Conference will be in Boulder, CO from March 9-11, 2015
  • Career and Academic Services:
  • Temporary locations (Nov. 2014 – early June 2015):
  • Saguaro Hall 210: Joy Winzerling, Elaine Marchello, Cecilia Mazon, Audrey Levine, Jim Hunt
  • Saguaro Hall 206: Frank Santiago
  • Saguaro Hall 221: Nancy Rodriguez-Lorta, Kristen Geary, Kyle Sharp, Maria Bueno, Dari Trujillo, Julie Adkins
  • Renovation completion no later than June 5, 2014 in time for the Summer Semester starting June 8, 2015.
  • Relocation back to Forbes will take place the week commencing Monday, June 1, 2015