Advising Coordinating Committee
Thursday, February 7, 2002
MINUTES
Attending:
John Mortensen (conducting), Nazih Al-Rashid, Cara Allen, Kathy
Bayn, Heidi Beck, Melinda Beck, Karen Bindrup, Debbie Buck,
Christine
Christensen, Donna Crow, Krystin Deschamps, Paul Ermer, Brian
Evans, Penny
Findlay, Vicki Fowler, James Gordon, Amy Greenway, Fawn Groves,
Tressa
Haderlie, Hyrum Hall, Lisa Hamblin, Harry Heap, Joslyn Heiniger,
Trisha
Henderson-Northcutt, Judy Hendrickson, Jill Hoffmann, Janet
Karren, Peter
Kolesar, Marilyn Kruse, Vince Lafferty, Rachel Lewis, Christine
Lord, Cathy
Myers-Roche, Sheri Noble, Wade Oliver, Vernon Parker, Darcie
Peterson, Sally
Peterson, Karen Ranson, Deborah Reece, Mary Lou Reynolds, Sylvia
Robinson,
Terry Robinson, Carol Rosenthal, Isobel Roskelley, Carol Sainsbury,
Danene
Smith, Judy Swaner, Madeline Thimmes, Maureen Wagner
Extension sites: Brigham City
1. SOAR
Dates - John Mortensen
The Office of Recruitment/Enrollment Services is sponsoring
a Transfer
Student Bash on Friday, April 12. This day may end up taking
the place of
orientation for many of these students. John will notify advisors
when more
information becomes available. SOAR will be held on Tuesday,
March 26 for
students who will begin attending classes in the summer. Below
are the SOAR
dates for students who will begin attending classes in the fall.
All
advising times are at 1:00 p.m.
Monday, June 10 (Transfer Students)
Thursday, June 13 (Two-Day)
Monday, June 17
Tuesday, June 18
Thursday, June 20
Friday, June 21
Monday, June 24
Wednesday, June 26
Thursday, June 27
2. Academic
Advising Survey - Joan Kleinke
The only current University advising assessment is included
in the
Graduating Student Survey and also a survey tive given to a
random sample of
sophomores and juniors. These surveys are being revised. The
old advising
questions will be replaced. Advisors were e-mailed a list of
questions and
asked to send their feedback to John. John will forward those
responses to
Joan. Suggestions from the group included: dividing questions
into
categories, dividing advisor names into colleges, and making
the survey much
shorter. Students with more than one advisor may only evaluate
one of them.
3. Department
Web Addresses - Wade Oliver
Wade passed around a sign-up sheet of department advising web
sites. Wade
will make links from the Advising and Transition Services website
to these
other sites.
4. Career
Fair - Donna Crow
The Career Fair is March 13th. There are student host opportunities.
Donna
passed around fliers for advisors to post in their offices.
5. Summer
Credit Workshops - Danene Smith
This summer there will be approximately 60 workshops. For details,
look in
summer schedule or on the web site at extension.usu.edu/confer.
Students may register for workshops through the normal registration
processes. To register for summer conferences, students must
register at
Conference Services in Eccles Conference Center.
6. Tutor
Advertiser/ARC website - Carol Rosenthal
Students who would like to provide tutoring services may advertise
their
services at the ARC website. Students who want to hire a private
tutor in a
particular subject may use the site to see tutor availability
and costs.
Students must have earned at least a B+ in the class to advertise
to be a
tutor.
7. Evening
School Tution and Policies - Terry Robinson.
Evening school is a good option for out-of-state students who
can't afford
out-of-state tuition. Terry may code any student as an Evening
student if
all of their classes meet one of the following conditions: 1)
taught after
3:30 pm, 2) distance education course, 3) independent study
course, or 4)
online course (through Continuing Education. Students do not
have to be
admitted to go to evening school, but DO have to be admitted
if they are
applying for financial aid.
8. Change
of Major and Automatic Repeats - Heidi Jo Beck
Heidi passed around a proposed new Change of Major form. Please
e-mail any
comments to Heidi (heidi@cc.usu.edu). Heidi asked the advisors
if they
would like the process of repeated courses to be automated.
The advisors
are very much in favor of this. If implemented, another form
would be
eliminated.
9. Freshmen
Retention and Registration - Heidi Jo Beck
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on how to improve
freshmen
retention. One proposal is to give priority registration to
freshman and
allow them to register the same day as seniors. Please send
comments and
concerns to Heidi (heidi@cc.usu.edu).
10. Data
Warehouse Workshop - John Mortensen
Rory Weaver will be conduct a workshop on using the Data Warehouse.
Benefits of using warehouse include: ability to download student
e-mail
addresses, looking up student pictures, and better access away
from campus.
John will notify advisors when the workshop will be taught.
Next Meeting: March 7, 2002