Happy New Year! The staff of the CCPS Undergraduate Advising Center wishes you good health and good things for the year ahead! We are excited for Winter 2013 to begin today. The buzz of student activity again fills the buildings and brightens the gray days of a dreary Michigan winter. We are ready to offer our support to them (and to you) so that they have a very successful semester! We have some great programming and events planned which we will share with you at the first of each month. Please continue to read our updates and share the information with the students you are in contact with as appropriate. As you greet students this new semester, please encourage them to seek advising in January and February ahead of the March registration rush. Students will have a better advising experience and it will allow for us to see more students prior to registration. Thank you for the work you do! Heres to a fantastic Winter 2013!

The Pew Faculty Teaching & Learning Center and the Academic Advising Professional Development Committee are teaming up for three information sessions relating to the upcoming changes to the General Education program in 2013. Please join us for ONE of the following dates/times that best fit your schedule.

1/29/13 3-3:50pm – Allendale Campus
1/30/13 3-3:50 pm – Allendale Campus
1/31/13 3-3:50 pm – Pew Campus

Please reserve your seat at www.gvsu.edu/seminar under the Academic Advising Professional Development listing.

Applications are now being accepted for over 60 scholarships (including some new ones) from the Grand Rapids Community Foundation. Please be sure to share this information with students! Applications are due April 1st. MORE INFORMATION

After a study of our advising traffic over the past several semesters, our office has adjusted our hours of operation. We will now be open 8:30am-5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am-5:00pm on Fridays. We will be offering virtual hours to assist with additional advising times as the semester gets busier. MORE INFORMATION

Grand Valley State University has joined the Education Advisory Board’s “Student Success Collaborative” along with eleven other US institutions of higher education. This national initiative is in the beta phase of developing predictive analytics based on a student’s performance in completed courses, especially gateway courses, to enhance student advising toward successful and timely degree completion.

If you are a faculty or staff member who regularly advises, counsels, or mentors students as they make their way from selection of academic major to timely graduation, you are strongly encouraged to attend! MORE INFORMATION

Please register at www.gvsu.edu/seminar under Academic Advising Professional Development Committee.

Thursday, January 24, 2013
2:30 - 3:00pm Refreshments and Networking
3:00 - 5:00pm Program Presentation and Q & A
Loosemore Auditorium, DeVos Center, Pew Campus