It's hard to believe that another academic year has almost come to an end! Since the last newsletter, our office has been busy working with students as they plan and register for their next year or in some cases prepare to leave GVSU and take the next step in their professional journey. In the past 6 weeks, our office had over 600 scheduled advising appointments with students, answered over 2500 phone calls and replied to over 1500 emails. We also held two Saturday Express Advising Events where another 25 students were assisted. A very hearty thank you to the CCPS Undergraduate Advising Center staff for another registration season well done!

I would like to take this issue of the newsletter to celebrate our two graduate student advisors and the amazing work they are doing with students and for the academic advising profession. Please read on for more about their recent accomplishments. Please join me in congratulating Leah and Theresa on their successes.

I would also like to welcome a new advisor to our staff, Amanda Clark. She returns to GVSU after completing her masters degree at the University of South Carolina. Please see below for more information about Amanda.

The College of Community & Public Service will be going live with usage of the EAB/Student Success Collaborative in the fall semester. Unit heads and program coordinators have had several meetings to review the tool and we are excited about what this tool brings to the conversation about student success at GVSU. You are all invited to learn more about the tool in the information below.

We are also gearing up for summer orientation season where we will be working with other GVSU faculty and staff to welcome thousands of new students to GVSU, while also continuing to work with our current students to make sure they are all set for 2014-2015.

We will have one more newsletter before we take a break for the summer, so look for the final issue for this year on May 5th

 --Jennifer L. McCaul

In what has become a finals week tradition, the CCPS-UAC is again offering free snacks, beverages and fun games for CCPS students and faculty to help relieve the stress of finals week.

Stop by our office Monday, April 21st thru Wednesday, April 23rd 10am-4pm! Grab a snack and a beverage... Play a game... Take a break from studying or grading! See you then!

Free slushies on Monday and Tuesday while supplies last!

We are thrilled to have Amanda Clark join the CCPS advising team! She graduated from GVSU in 2011 with a degree in Behavioral Science. She then went to the University of South Carolina to pursue her M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs graduating in May of 2013. Since then, Amanda has spent time traveling the United States and Korea and she is looking forward to this new role in the Laker family. She will be working with new student orientation and will also serve as the liaison for the School of Social Work and the School of Public Nonprofit and Health Administration. Please stop by and welcome Amanda!

Nancy Giardina, Vice Provost for Student Success presented to the CCPS unit heads and program coordinators about CCPS's participation in the Student Success Collaborative last week. This collaborative provides another tool for faculty and staff to provide information to students about their performance and timely progression to degree by using predictive data analytics. Faculty and staff are encouraged to learn more about the collaborative and to sign up to delve deeper into the research library that is available to all members of the collaborative. Additional information will roll out to CCPS faculty and staff as we move forward with implementation over the summer. Please look for this information late summer or early fall.

STUDENT SUCCESS COLLABORATIVE OVERVIEW

CREATE A MEMBER LOG-IN AND REVIEW E-LEARNING MODULES

On March 27th, Leah Kicinski, a 2nd year graduate assistant in the CCPS Undergraduate Advising Center successfully defended her master's thesis in the College Student Affairs Leadership (CSAL) M.Ed. program at GVSU. Her thesis is titled "Student Success and Service-Learning: Exploring the Relationship at a Two-Year Public Institution."

She went on to present her research at the 2014 Graduate Showcase on April 2nd with a poster presentation which was well received by attendees.

Leah has also been selected by the Michigan Academic Advising Association (MIACADA) as a session presenter at the annual conference scheduled for May 30th at Central Michigan University. Her presentation title is "Advising for High Impact Practices"

Congratulations on your success and thank you for your hard work and leadership for the past two years in our office!

The upcoming issue of the National Academic Advising Association Journal (Volume 34 - Issue 1) includes a book review by Theresa Lyon, a first year graduate assistant in our office. The journal features the printed book review citation wth the full review available online. You can read her review at the link below.

Discovering Your Personality Type

Theresa has also recently accepted a summer practicum experience at Brigham Young University as a graduate student affairs intern in the Center for Service and Learning. In this role she will be working on a variety of projects with a focus on working with the Student Service Council to oversee support of 31 community service programs, performing outreach to community partners to review service placement and liability issues, assisting with the development of Service Leadership transcript and peer tutoring programs, and reviewing programs and activities for assessment and evaluation research.

Thank you for representing the College of Community & Public Service Undergraduate Advising Center well! We'll see you back here in July!

On Friday, April 4th, we celebrated our student employees with an evening out at the Grand Rapids Griffins hockey game. Thank you to our undergraduate student staff, Danielle and Sierra, for the great job you do at our front desk! Thank you to our graduate student staff, Leah and Theresa, for everything you do as well!

Pictured from left: Danielle, Leah, Jennifer, Griff, Angie, Theresa

Not pictured: Anne, Sierra