• Applying for Scholarships: An Opportunity and a Process
• Assisting Cal's New Commuters in Transition
• E-Learn Berkeley
• Got Internships? An overview of the Career Center's "Internship Initiative"
• Haas Scholars Program

• Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Minor in Global Poverty & Practice
• Summer Sessions - Because Bears Don't Hibernate in the Summer
• SURF: Summer Research for a Richer Thesis Experience
• Transfer Online Orientation for Letters & Science: A Preview
• Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program

Disputes and disagreements often disrupt the workplace and damage relationships. Learn how to approach and analyze conflict in a new way and discover how to deal with disputes and disagreements constructively. This workshop will explore the underlying causes of conflict and provide skills and strategies to bring about a positive resolution.

This workshop addresses how UC Berkeley is transitioning into an “immigrant university” in which sixty three percent of Berkeley students have at least one parent who was born in another country. We will translate the university’s own statistics by focusing on key immigrant data and student perspectives, highlighting the complexity of the immigrant student campus populations, paying particular attention to “AB540” documented and undocumented immigrant students.

This interactive workshop combines the components of speed dating with an agricultural concept to produce a human working ecosystem that will support diversity work through connections. Participants are asked to talk to each other about their particular needs and also to highlight resources that they can provide to each, other resulting in a visual diversity ecosystem map.

This roundtable provides a forum to explore our shared roles and responsibilities and discuss opportunities for professional dialogue and community building among student service staff. The intent is to improve the accuracy, consistency and appropriateness of information and referrals given to students and ultimately, create a more seamless and positive undergraduate experience for all students.

The state of flourishing is your birthright. This interactive activational session will introduce practices that allow you to foster trusting, effective, high performance, and collaborative teams; communicate in ways that activates the flourishing performance in yourself and others; complete projects and tasks in shorter time frames and with less effort; and attract resources and talent to fulfill your intentions

Mindfulness training is a form of meditation that has been adapted for use in everyday life. Participants will learn a variety of practical methods to increase their focus and awareness through stress reduction exercises and mindful meditation. These simple and powerful techniques can be useful tools for promoting wellness in your daily work and personal lives.

Berkeley’s pool of low-income and first-generation undergraduates continues to increase. How do we effectively identify and address the needs and challenges of these populations? What are the “best practices” we can share to better serve students? We will lead a discussion to help answer these questions and identify follow-up action.

This session introduces the Cal Independent Scholars Network Program (CISN) and Cal Veterans Student Services—both part of the Transfer, Re-entry, and Student Parent Center (TRSP). By dispelling stereotypes, we will advance participants’ understanding, heighten their appreciaton of the unique issues that impact these students, and highlight the array of services and resources available.

The presenters will describe some of the barriers to academic access and success encountered by students with disabilities at UC Berkeley and will examine how three campus units are working to develop and enhance collaborative partnerships to address these barriers. Workshop participants will be asked to reflect upon case studies of students with disabilities and to identify strategies to support student success.

What do you want students to know? This basic question is often overlooked in the day-to-day tasks of working in a student advising or support service. At this facilitated roundtable, we will describe our work with and share a set of Student Learning Outcomes. We will also provide time for you to draft some of your own.

While many graduate students with disabilities do not require academic accommodations, there are times when they need to request such accommodations. This workshop addresses the unique challenges faced by advising staff when responding to requests for academic accommodations by grad students wth hidden and/or visible disabilities.

One of the themes of this conference is networking. Along those lines, we will hold a workshop for new and experienced student service professionals who want to break out of their silos and reach beyond the bounds of their departmental walls.

This presentation includes both a discussion of issues affecting Asian/Pacific Islander pre-med and business students and a case study exercise for participants. Pressenters will facilitate Q and A and discussion, giving attendees the opportunity to share their best practices and learn effective interventions for working with this population.

Advisors and faculty are more frequently requesting assistance with disruptive students. Who is an appropriate advisor to call…UCPD…CPS…or the Dean of Students office? Are disruptive students part of the campus legal system, mental health system or the conduct system? This session will give advisors tools for working with disruptive students and information about campus resources.

This session provides staff an opportunity to share information and experience around sponsoring student-facilitated courses. Specifically, participants will discuss benefits of student-facilitated courses, explore connections among campus entities involved in student-facilitated courses, and share best practices.

Entering transfer students wait through two registration cycles for an official transfer credit evaluation. Sixteen team members from seven campus entities worked with an external consultant to examine the credit evaluation process. Presenters will share their findings and recommendations and engage the audience in discussion.

Want to do the "right thing" when advising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or intersex students? Not sure what that is or how to do that? Join us in a safe and supportive, professional but fun conversation featuring stories about advising experiences and student interactions people have had...bring your own to share, as well as questions and concerns.

The Graduate Division partners with over 100 graduate academic programs and departments across campus. This presentation will enable attendees to reacquaint or learn for the first time many of the services the Graduate Division provides, not only to graduate students, but also staff, faculty and the public. Presenters will explain their roles, some of the challenges faced by graduate education and how we will continue to meet the future needs of the campus.

In an effort to educate staff and faculty about depression and suicide, University Health Services has developed an on-line training module. This module focuses on suicide warning signs, how to offer help, what questions to ask, how to refer to CPS. Come view the training, provide feedback and discuss implementation.

Incorporating graduate-level interns and undergraduate peer advisors into the advising team allows for more in-depth advising, as well as providing valuable experience to future colleagues. Participants will learn about the benefits to the various players involved in the advising process, and the structure and framework of similiar programs on campus.

This workshop will introduce you to a career development model that you can use to simplify the process of taking control and managing your professional life. You will take an assessment to discover where your career development efforts can best be focused in order to reach your goals. You will leave with valuable knowledge of campus resources to aid in your career development and work with others.

Transfer students face a steep learning curve and therefore their first advising experiences in their major departments are extremely significant. Major advisors are essential to the transfer process. This workshop will benefit advisors who have developed effective CalSO sessions, and those who are looking for new ways to engage with transfer students.

From cross-discipline and academic support perspectives, Student Learning Center Program Coordinators will discuss some particularly challenging course combinations and the sometimes hidden cognitive and skill demands of such combinations. This session will provide advisors insight into how better to understand particular course demands and advise students with whom they work.

What are some of the challenges - physical, emotional, practical - faced by Cal students with chronic medical conditions? We will discuss the range of illnesses encountered, the impact of such conditions, and provide resources and helpful information on how to best work with and support students.

In this session, participants will identify the mentoring needs of graduate students and articulate steps they can take to assist graduate students in getting the mentoring they need. Participants will be introduced to resources they can draw on to help create a departmental and campus culture that supports graduate student mentoring.

Many advising interactions go well, but others don't. It is specifically hard when we have bad news to deliver to a student, or when we find the student to be "pushy" or "irritating" or frustrating. This roundtable is a chance for us to come together as caring advisors to share our best practices for working with students in these difficult cases and circumstances.

Do you eat poorly at the office? Do you constantly crash at 3 PM and want to understand why? Would you like to gain control without deprivation or willpower? This session will focus specifically on healthful ways to eat at the office and more broadly on general approaches for healthy eating and making sound lifestyle choices.

Are you curious about your leadership style? Have you always wondered about others' communication style? Would like to find out how others see you? Using self-assessments, participants in this workshop will discover their own behavioral tendencies as well and learn about strategies for working successfully with different leadership and communication styles.

This roundtable will act primarily as a forum for Minor advisors across campus to share best practices for pre-advising students before their submissions of "Minor verifications." Additioinally, presenters will discuss the implementation of new procedures for verification.

Berkeley's minority undergraduates are just as likely to participate in faculty-supervised research as non-minority students, according to surveys and campus records. But science and engineering majors are far more likely to participate than are humanities and social science majors. Attendees will discuss the findings and explore ways to broaden participation in undergraduate research.

Writing Effectively on the Job. What does good writing at Berkeley look like? How can we craft the best letters, reports, and memos (email and hard copy)? What are some of the grammar and style points we should be aware of? In this workshop, we will look at examples, both good and ugly, and run through a few exercises to help you hone your writing skills. Plenty of time for questions.

Presenters will facilitate a discussion about the unique help-seeking behaviors of diverse male students, including a) mental health risks specific to men, b) gender roles, c) culture, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; and d) techniques and approaches that can facilitate help-seeking.

Do you know students who feel the need to do everything in order to get the most out of their Berkeley experience? This session will explore how we can utilize effective coaching strategies in assisting students to pursue experiences that are consistent with what they value. Participants will share their own strategies and will have the opportunity to practice new techniques.

How can we create deeper and longer lasting opportunities for faculty and students interested in community-based coursework and research? We will focus on the methods and resources faculty and researchers have to craft successful community-based work, as well as the opportunities for students in their learning and development of career paths.

This workshop addresses the critical aspects of what a successful interview entails, and how best to prepare oneself based on an individual's specific background and objectives.Attendees are encouraged to bring a current resume and cover letter to the session (not required).

Presenters will share a handout that provides a concise visual aid mapping the complex process of simultaneously engaging in a liberal arts major and exploring careers. This tool will show students how they can major in what they love and still get a great job by using campus resources.

This workshop will provide a general overview of trends related to international students with a focus on this population's unique transition to U.C. Berkeley. New and veteran advisors will discover an/or refine specific techniques for improving their cross-cultural advising skills. Facilitators will review common cross-cultural advising scenarios, the impact of campus "culture shock" and "top ten tips" for advisors.

Medicine and healthcare involve more than science; the humanities can help in fostering self-reflection, critical thinking, a social and historical perspective, and an understanding of the importance of culture in health. Presenters will facilitate discussion on developing a major or minor in the Medical Humanities and solicit input from attendees.

Student Systems 2012 is a project that calls for the creation of a new student-centered systems environment. It iincludes the Kuali Student Systems Project, an international joint effort to provide higher education with an innovative alternative to the traditional vendor products. Panelists will facilitate discussion about student systems needs, wants, opportunities, and dreams.

Students face many situations that can lead to disappointment. We will facilitate a discussion on how to assist students in handling disappointment in order to make it easier for them to accept an outcome gracefully.

Are you a new supervisor, or a seasoned veteran? Would you like to meet and get to know colleagues who share similar work responsibilities and challenges? As a small group of supervisors of advising professionals, who formed an informal network to help each other manage their supervisory duties, we will facilitate a forum for sharing ideas about the supervisory role at Cal.

Learn about a new Student Learning Center course to support undergraduates who are preparing for or are currently pursuing a senior thesis or "capstone" project in their major(s). We will lead a roundtable discussion about what we've learned from our students and what information we hope to gather from campus partners as we mentor students considering or engaged in capstone projects.