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Volume 5, Issue 3, October 12, 2015
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• Majors in Minutes
• Student Resilience
• Advisor Development eLearning Course
• Meet a Peer Academic Advisor in Residence
• UNI Homecoming/Advisor In-Service
• Important Dates & Deadlines
• Welcome to the October 12, 2015 issue.
• We encourage any feedback regarding content and design. Please email david.marchesani@uni.edu with suggestions.
• Look for the link symbols to indicate text hyperlinks that will lead you outside the publication.
Majors in Minutes is a speed-dating approach to learning about majors that students might be interested in checking out. Maybe they are thinking about switching majors, adding a minor, or double-majoring! This is a great opportunity to ask questions from upperclass student representatives from each major. The best part is that students have the opportunity to learn about a new major every eight minutes! Go to as many major tables or as few as you’d like. Want more information? Check out the videos below to learn more about Majors in Minutes!
Click here for information on how it works!
Click here for information on how it can help!

Study
Faculty are afraid of giving lower grades for how their students might interpret the grade. Students are more likely to seek out psychological counseling for what many may deem as everyday challenges. Parents are becoming more involved in their children’s lives after they have left the house than ever before. Universities are being held responsible for all aspects of their student’s lives. These are some of the realities that modern academic institutions are facing. Peter Gray (2015) argues that in order to move away from being a “helicopter institution”, faculty and staff must learn to finding the right balance between support and challenge. Gray (2015) and
Price-Mitchell (2015) offer the following suggestions:
•Allow students to experience failure. Do not hold their hand, but offer a supportive relationship.
•Hold students accountable for their work and success.
•Praise students for hard work, good grades, and success. But don’t make it all about the grades or easy triumphs.
•Sometimes helicopter parents are part of the problem. Educating and assuring parents that failing can build a stronger student and create resilience.
•Opportunities to discuss what resilience is and how it operates in everyday life can help students make connections between their own behaviors and actions and outcomes they want to accomplish.

Advisor Development eLearning Course
The new Advisor Development eLearning course provides advisors the core knowledge to successfully advise UNI students during their academic careers. This course is available to all undergraduate faculty and advisors through their eLearning site. There are two options available for this course:
1. Advisor Development Course
This option is designed for new and seasoned UNI advisors and faculty to enhance their academic advising skills and serve as a resource on specific advising topics. There are five Core Knowledge modules and several
Elective modules available through this option.
2. Advisor Development Certificate
This option allows faculty advisors to gain recognition for completing all five
Core Knowledge modules, at least three Elective modules, and fulfilling the following additional requirements: one year of advising experience at UNI, participation in the Fall New/Returning Advisor Workshop, Spring Campus
Advisor Workshop, and an optional advisor observation.
Meet a Peer Academic Advisor in Residence
Meet Josh! He’s the Rider Hall PAIR and a sophomore in
Accounting at UNI!
What is your favorite aspect of being a PAIR?
“The challenge. Everyone has something that makes their situation unique and it’s very fun to find a way to make everything fit together and work!”
Recommendations for students who are struggling?
“Use the resources around you! Holy cow do you know how many there are just dying to help you? There’s no problem you can have that someone at UNI can’t help you solve and I am here to help you find that someone!”
Contact Josh at RiderPAIR@uni.edu!
Homecoming week is October 12-17 this year! This year’s theme is Once Upon a Time. Make sure to stay up on all the festivities by visiting the Homecoming website!
October 22, 2015
2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Sabin 102 (Computer Lab)

10/12-10/17 Homecoming Week
10/22
10/27
10/28
11/1
New/Returning Faculty Academic Advisor In-Service,
2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Majors in Minutes, Maucker Union Ballroom, 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Fall 2015 Graduation Fair in the Old Central Ballroom in
Maucker Union, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Daylight Savings Time Ends
11/6-11/8 Family Weekend
11/11 Veteran’s Day
10/23
10/30
11/10
Last Day to Add Second Half-Semester Course for Credit
Last Day to Drop Second-Half Semester Course
without a “W”
Last Day to Drop Full-Semester Course without an “F”
Last Day to submit application for Fall 2015 Graduation
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Office of Academic Advising
102 Gilchrist
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0389
Phone: 319-273-3406
Fax: 319-273-7515
Email: advising-services@uni.edu
Advisor Contacts by College
Stay up-to-date on everything advising by visiting the Advisor Handbook at: http://www.uni.edu/advisorhandbook/
Content by Ashley Jones, Graduate Assistant