- GTAAN Updates
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GTAAN Best Practices Information - New!
- FASET Updates
- GA Legislative Requirement Update
- College & Departmental Updates
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Pre-Graduate Advising: SMART Program - New!
- Post-Graduate Fellowship Application Summer Writing Workshop Series
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Office of Undergraduate Admissions Hiring Student Assistants - New!
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Summer and Fall Global Research and Internship Programs - New!
- Carbon Reduction Challenge
- Honor's Program Assessment and Resource
- Exploratory Advising Drop-In Hours
- Job Openings
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Assistant Director for Summer and Special Session Initiatives - New!
- BME: Academic Advisor I
- Advising & Advisor Resources
- GTAAN Canvas Course
What would you like to see featured in the GTAAN Weekly? Let us know at gtaan@gatech.edu!
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GTAAN Best Practices Conference
May 22 from 8:00am to 4:10pm (tentative) at the John Lewis Student Center
Don’t forget to register for the 2023 GTAAN Best Practices Conference! Registration costs $35 (only payable via Credit Card or Check).
Conference Schedule
8:00 am Registration Opens/Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome and introduction to conference
9:15 am Keynote Speaker
10:45 am Concurrent Sessions Group #1
11:45 am Concurrent Sessions Group #2
12:30 pm Lunch
1:45 pm Concurrent Sessions #3 - affinity groups
2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions #4
3:45 pm Networking Time
4:30 pm Conference Ends
Please check the GTAAN Best Practices website for updates on the day-of schedule and program.
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FASET Advising Schedule
As a reminder, NSTP switched from using the listserv to Microsoft Groups. Please click this link, FASET Academic Advising, to be added to the group. You can use this link anytime to share with new staff who should be getting FASET Advising information.
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FASET registration for Summer First-Years opens on Wednesday at 10 AM. Fall First-Years will open on Thursday at 10 AM. For more information, you can visit our website. Please note that our iGniTe FASETS consist of two half days (virtual and in-person). In conjunction with Housing and the Summer Programs Office, we are trying something new due to the placement of the Juneteenth federal holiday. The information about the schedule and how this works can be found here.
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Here is the FASET Calendar. You can view the calendar at FASET 2023 Calendar.xlsx. There are downloadable calendar files embedded for each date. If you want to use the calendar files, you must download the Excel file to your desktop and then download the calendar files. It will not work from the web version of the calendar at all. It will also not work if you don’t download the Excel file and the individual dates.
Day of Schedule
- Academic Advising will happen from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM for every in-person FASET session. This applies to all FASET sessions.
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For all virtual sessions, except the one on Tuesday, July 18th, academic advising drop-in will be from 2 PM to 3 PM.
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The July 18th session will open first to international students to help a little bit with the time change. Academic Advising on that day will be 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
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For the iGniTe session, Academic Advising is only scheduled on virtual days (June 13th and 14th), so that will be from 2 PM to 3 PM.
For in-person days, registration will begin at 3:30 PM. For virtual days, registration begins at 3 PM.
Additionally, we are holding rooms on the second floor in the Exhibition Hall for Academic Advising. If you are interested in utilizing that space, please let us know. They will be equipped with a projector and screen. I will find out how many computers we can use from the Exhibition Hall staff. As these sessions will be the largest we’ve seen since pre-COVID, it will help not to move dozens of people throughout campus. This is not mandatory, but it would help us immensely with staffing.
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Updates on the GA Legislative Requirement | |
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Advisors: this is a correction from the information sent on 4/26/23
Updates On The Georgia Legislative Requirements
On March 31, 2023, the Office of Undergraduate Education and Office of the Registrar announced a revision to the implementation of the plan for completion of the Georgia Legislative Requirements (U.S. history, U.S. Constitution, GA history, GA Constitution).
The new implementation extends the "four-for-one" plan that has been in place since 1995 through April 30, 2023. This means that all students who first matriculated any semester before summer 2023 can fulfill all four GLR requirements with one of the following classes: HIST 2111, HIST 2112, INTA 1200, POL 1101, or PUBP 3000. This class also fulfills three of the 12 required hours for Core Area E. This policy is based on MATRICULATION YEAR, so any student who matriculates before summer 2023 needs only one of the five classes to complete all four GLRs, even if they haven't taken any of the classes yet (i.e., the policy will not apply retroactively to any students matriculating before summer 2023).
Beginning May 1, 2023, students can complete the four required Georgia Legislative Requirements in a variety of ways, through combinations of AP/IB/dual enrollment/transfer credit, coursework at Georgia Tech, and/or examination through a non-credit, non-tuition bearing Canvas course. The most notable change in the revised implementation is that HIST 2111 and HIST 2112 taken at Georgia Tech will now fulfill both the U.S. history and GA history GLR, while INTA 1200, POL 1101, and PUBP 3000 will now fulfill both the U.S. Constitution and GA Constitution GLR. It should also be noted that the requirements for Core Area E remain the same: all students MUST earn credit for HIST 2111, HIST 2112, INTA 1200, POL 1101, or PUBP 3000.
Canvas courses with the learning modules and examinations will be rolled out in May, once the students matriculating in summer 2023 have arrived, as they will be the first cohort who would need to access the exams.
There are a variety of resources to assist advisors and students in learning more about the Georgia Legislative Requirements and we encourage you to include this information in your FASET orientation materials.
If you have any questions or concerns, or if you find a student who matriculated before summer 2023 who is missing GLR credit, please reach out to Amy D'Unger at amy.dunger@gatech.edu.
GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENT RESOURCES
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College & Departmental Updates | |
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Advisors: Please share with interested students.
SMART Program
The SMART Program, part of the Department of Defense (DoD) science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) portfolio, provides STEM students with the tools needed to pursue higher education and begin a rewarding career with the DoD.
Undergraduates, those about to start graduate school, and those in graduate school in particular disciplines are eligible. See the full description of eligibility .
With a full scholarship, students pursuing STEM degrees will be able to focus on complex research to further the DoD's mission and create a lasting impact. Summer internships are performed at DoD facilities alongside scientists and engineers; these experiences prepare scholars for full-time employment and get them accustomed to working with the DoD. SMART is a one-for-one commitment; for every year of degree funding, the scholar commits to working for a year with the DoD as a civilian employee.
The DoD civilian workforce is responsible for solving our Nation's most complex challenges by developing the next generation of defense technologies. Click the flyer for more information about the DoD civilian employee benefits.
For full details and how to apply:
https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart?id=about_smart
Questions?
Contact Susan Belmonte, Asst. Director, Pre-Graduate Advising, sbelmonte@gatech.edu
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Advisors: Please share with interested students.
Post-Graduate Fellowship Application Summer Writing Workshop Series
Drafting a Post-Grad Fellowship Application in Four Easy Steps
Workshop Series: A series to maximize your potential to achieve prestigious fellowships or scholarships. A hands-on series using homework, guest presenters, group work, and discussions.
Objectives: By the end of the course, you will: 1. Gain a greater awareness of fellowship and scholarship opportunities. 2. Understand the application and review processes. 3. Successfully draft a personal statement and a project synopsis/statement of grant purpose.
Class Schedule
- May 30, 2023 5:00-6:30 PM – Introductions Overview of Fellowships and Post-Grad Opportunities
- June 6, 2023 5:00-6:30 PM – Application Processes, Letters of Rec, and Personal Statements Brainstorming Activity
- June 13, 2023 5:00-6:30 PM – Workshop Session – First Draft of PS due Statements of Grant Purpose or Project Proposals
- June 20, 2023 5:00-6:30 PM – Workshop Session - Statements of Grant Purpose/ Project Proposals due
- June 27, 2023 5:00-7:00 PM – Writing Bootcamp
Register Today!
Questions? Email karen.mura@gatech.edu
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Advisors: Please share with interested students.
Office of Undergraduate Admissions Hiring Student Assistants
OUA is seeking student assistants to work for our office starting this summer. Please share the attached employment opportunity with interested students.
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Advisors: This is for you.
Summer and Fall Global Research and Internship Programs
Advisors, if you know of a student who's doing research or an internship in an international location that meets the following criteria--they can register that internship with the Office of International Education to ensure they have adequate insurance coverage and to ensure that it shows on their transcript. For international students, this also maintains their US immigration status.
- Full time (35+ hours/week)
- 14 weeks (fall/spring), 10 weeks (summer)
- Is related to major/career interests
- In good academic/disciplinary standing
- Has completed 2 full-time degree seeking semesters
Please send any questions to jrivera@oie.gatech.edu or elizabeth.reese@oie.gatech.edu.
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Advisors: Please share with students.
Carbon Reduction Challenge
The Carbon Reduction Challenge, An initiative of the GT College of Sciences and, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, in collaboration with the Georgia Climate Project, is a competition focused on empowering students to become part of the climate change solution. Interning and co-op students work with an organization, during their internship, on a project that achieves significant reductions in carbon emissions and yields cost savings. While the program is based out of Georgia Tech, we welcome all students. Students are guided by GT professors throughout the summer and culminate in Final Expo in August where the top three teams win cash prizes!
If you want to talk to one of our team members to learn more, check out our website(https://www.carbonreductionchallenge.org/), or email us here.
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Advisors: This is for you.
Honor's Program Assessment and Resources
Dear Academic Advisors,
My name is Amy D'Unger and I'm the Associate Director of the Honors Program. In my role, I handle all of the program assessment for HP and one of our goals is to empower academic advisors across campus to assist the Honors Program students in their majors. In order to do this, we've created an informational video about advising HP students. I'm reaching out to you—hopefully before things get too crazy when the schedule of classes goes online—to ask if you could assist in reviewing this content.
The entire process takes about 15 - 20 minutes and includes a 10-question multiple choice pre-test (about 3 - 5 mins), an "explainer" video (9 mins), and a 10-question multiple choice post-test (about 3 - 5 mins). These three items are located a module titled "Honors Program Advising" in BOTH the Undergraduate Academic Advising and GTAAN Canvas sites (please complete it only in one place).
I would ask that, before you begin, you do NOT review any websites or information about the HP. We really want to get a baseline assessment on the pre-test of advisor knowledge about the Honors Program (it's an anonymous survey on Qualtrics, so no grade shaming!). Please go through the items in order (pre-test, video, post-test) and only complete the module in the UG advising or GTAAN site, but not both. I'm putting it in both places, as there are some folks who are members of one but not the other.
The result of this effort is we'll get a better sense of how helpful the video is, where knowledge gaps might be, and about other items that might be helpful. For example, I have a document all about HP advising that will be added to the module after data collection is completed. We want to build a connection between the HP and academic advisors, make sure advisors have the information needed to share with their students, and assess the state of HP advising (or lack thereof) on campus. It should benefit advisors and the HP in the long run.
Thank you so much for your time and please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions about this process or about advising HP students in your major(s). I am happy to help at any time.
Regards, Amy
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Advisors: Please share with students.
Exploratory Advising (In-Person) Drop-in Hours
Thursdays, 9:00-10:30 and 2:00-4:00
CULC 283
Appointments are also available in Advisor Link
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Assistant Director for Summer and Special Session Initiatives
Position # 256846
We're looking for a motivated and experienced individual to join our team and provide onboarding support to our new spring and summer transfer students, as well as ongoing summer programs. We're seeking candidates who are passionate about creating a welcoming environment for transfer students and can collaborate to develop and implement comprehensive onboarding programs that ensure a smooth transition for our students as they join our academic community. Questions about the role can be sent to demorris.walker@gatech.edu.
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Biomedical Engineering: Academic Advisor I
Position # 253918
Application Open: Until filled
Provide information and counsel to undergraduate and graduate students within an assigned area regarding their academic pursuits and progress. Prepare and maintain associated student records. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: current and potential students, parents, faculty, staff, and general public. This position typically will advise and counsel: students
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View the recordings of our previous GTAAN meetings in the GTAAN Canvas Course.
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