THE 28th ANNUAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE/
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ADVISING CONFERENCE:
ENGAGEMENT
Friday, April 29, 2016
Alder Hall
University of Washington Seattle
Undergraduate Academic Affairs Advising
The 2016 Conference Planning Group: Ali Albrecht, UW; Raul Anaya, UW; Joslin Boroughs, UW; Anne Colpitts, Shoreline
Community College; Joyce Fagel, Shoreline Community College; Leslie Ikeda, UW; Christina Kerr, UW; Brian Kinnear, UW; Emily
Kolby, Bellevue College; Dan Poux, UW; Donna Sharpe, UW; Ana Wieman, UW; Carlos Williams, UW.
Registration & Coffee
Alder Hall Commons
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Please stop by the registration tables to sign in, pick up a name tag and materials, and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea while
chatting with colleagues.
Opening Presentations in Alder Auditorium
9:00-9:05 a.m.
WELCOME
Welcome to the 28th Annual CC/UW Advising Conference!
9:05-9:15 a.m.
OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Ed Taylor, Vice Provost and Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs
9:15-9:50 a.m.
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE
Paul Rucker, Special Assistant to the President and Provost for Community College
Engagement and Colleen Ferguson, Project Manager, CCEI
The Community College Engagement Initiative is a cross-campus initiative with UW and
Seattle and Spokane Community College leadership to review and assess the UW-CC
transfer student landscape, the academic pathways, and the opportunity for developing
philanthropic partnerships. Over the past 6 months, the initiative has engaged students,
staff, faculty, and other stakeholders, while reviewing quantitative data, to identify
strengths, challenges and opportunities for most effectively serving the community college
transfer student.
9:50-10:00 a.m.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Coffee, Networking & Resource Fair
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Catch up with colleagues over coffee and tea and check out UW resources!
Stop by the resource fair in the Commons to say hello to the people from the offices that
provide the wide variety of services that support UW students!
Morning Breakout Sessions
10:30 – 11:20 a.m.
Transfer Admissions 101
David Sundine, UW Admissions
An ideal workshop for new advisers, we will provide an overview of the transfer admission process, including Academic
Planning Worksheets, the Equivalency Guide, applying to majors, personal statement, the online application and more!
Community College Engagement Initiative Q&A
Paul Rucker, Special assistant to the President and Provost, Colleen Ferguson, Project Manager, UW CCEI
Join us in this follow-up session to ask more in-depth questions regarding the initiative, the research and the findings. If
you have something you’d like to share regarding the transfer student experience or a unique way in which you serve
transfer students, we’d like to hear it!
Transfer Transitions: Making the Most of the Transfer Student Husky Experience
Ali Albrecht and Martha Tran, UW First-Year Programs
First Year Programs has been working on several new initiatives to support the transfer student transition, including
working with Shoreline Community College to pilot a "transfer student reunion", increasing our efforts to target transfer
students within the Commuter Commons, and helping to support the Transfer Student Union student group on campus.
Informed by data from orientation and new student surveys, we will explain how these initiatives support retention of
transfer students, and also outline how advisers can get involved with initiatives on campus.
Surviving the Storm: Helping Students through Failure, Disappointment and Setbacks
Julie Johnston, IAS Adviser, UW Tacoma
Setbacks are an inevitable part of a student's experience. With the pressure to succeed while in the university setting,
students are sometimes not prepared to handle the moment when they have not met their expectations or fell short of
goals they have set. This presentation will focus on how to help students recover from these setbacks and give practical
tools and tips to change a student’s paradigm about failure. It will give advisers conversational tools to use when
communicating with student when plans take a turn for what seems like the worst. This will be an interactive
presentation where participants can learn from each other in presenter facilitated, small round table discussions.
11:30 – 12:20 p.m.
Transfer Admissions 101
David Sundine, UW Admissions
An ideal workshop for new advisers, we will provide an overview of the transfer admission process, including Academic
Planning Worksheets, the Equivalency Guide, applying to majors, personal statement, the online application and more!
Transfer Shock Student Panel
Dan Poux, UAA Advising
This session will explore the implications of the differences between Community Colleges and Baccalaureate
Institutions. Dan Poux will also present a quick summary of the research findings on the phenomena of
transfer shock. Student panelists will share their insights on the following:
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How did you experience transfer shock?
How has your university experience differed from your community college experience?
What did you learn about yourself when you transferred?
What do you wish that you had known before transferring?
Mythbusters: Running Start Students
Carson Creecy, UW Admissions
Are they transfers? Freshmen? Should they finish an AA or AST? Take the SAT or ACT? Do AP or IB? How
are credits going to transfer? Get the straight story on best practices for advising Running Start students
from an expert who has over six years of transfer planning experience with Running Start students and an
insider’s perspective on how Running Start students are evaluated by admissions counselors.
Supporting Undocumented Students
Magdalena Fonseca, Associate Director and Yuriana Garcia Tellez, UW Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center
The Leadership Without Borders Center (LWB), is dedicated to building a pathway for undocumented students’ access
and success at the University of Washington and beyond. The Undocu Ally Training & Education program was
established to provide UW and other educational institutions with resources and best practices to build a supportive
environment for undocumented students. The Undocu Ally Trainings presentation highlights the best practices we have
implemented over the last 10 years to provide resources and excellent support services to undocumented students.
 Narratives of undocumented students and their families.
 An overview of the history, policies, and current issues impacting this student population.
 Why and how to be an ally to undocumented students.
 Strategies and models to support undocumented students.
 Recommendations for how to personalize and adapt best practices.
12:20 – 1:40 p.m.
Lunch
Our thanks to the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost for sponsoring lunch for this year’s conference!
Use your UW guest cards to enjoy lunch in a campus dining venue! Check out the list and map at
https://www.hfs.washington.edu/dining/locations/#gsc.tab=0.
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
1:40-2:30 p.m.
Engineering Transfer Student Panel: Preparation for Success at the University of Washington
Dan Feetham, Moderator, Director of Advising and Student Engagement, UW College of Engineering
Hear from current UW engineering students as they share their experiences as transfer students to UW.
This discussion will focus on the students’ preparation as well as their successes and difficulties at UW.
The Human and Social Dimensions of the Environment
Lisa Nordlund, Environmental & Forest Sciences, UW; Ana Wieman, Environmental Studies , UW; Trina Sterry,
Environmental Health, UW; James Baginski, Geography, UW; Kelly Hostetler, Community, Environment and Planning,
UW; Joe Kobayashi, Marine Biology, Moderator, UW
There are many majors available for students interested in the environment to choose from. This panel discussion
focuses on just a few of those majors that have a strong human and social dimension component. Information will be
available about other environmental majors as well.
MyPlan for Community and Technical College Students
Carol Bershad, Lead Analyst, UW-IT; Sonia Ramirez, Advisor, Green River College
As part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded effort, we've extended the UW’s existing academic planning
tool, MyPlan, to allow for its use by Community and Technical College students to aid in their transfer planning. In this
session, we will give a demo of the tool and discuss how advisors at Green River College are using it with their students.
Nursing Degree Options and What About UW?
Rosemary Whiteside, Shoreline Community College; Christina Kerr, UAA Advising, UW
The multiple pathways to become a nurse tend to be confusing. The first half of this session will review the “Options in
Nursing” workshop as it is presented to students at Shoreline CC. It covers the basics of careers in nursing, degree
pathways for Registered Nursing (AAS-T in Nursing and AA-DTA Pre-Nursing MRP plus BSN), and choosing schools for
application. The second half of this session will focus on how to prepare to apply to the UW’s Nursing Bachelor program.
2:40 - 3:30 p.m.
Transfer Academic Community in Psychology
Carrie Perrin, Director of Student Services, UW Psychology Dept.
The Psychology Department has developed a number of resources to help incoming transfer students get up to speed
quickly in the major. These include the Transfer Academic Community seminar, which provides incoming students an indepth orientation to the department, curriculum, and resources available to undergraduates. Learn how the Psychology
department equips transfer students to explore ways to effectively engage in the major and expand their understanding
of the discipline. Current psychology majors will discuss how participation in the seminar helped their transition to UW.
Advising on English Proficiency Requirements from Admissions to Graduation
Sabrina Moss, UW Admissions; Nicole Minkoff & Amy Renehan, UW International and English Language Programs
Non-native English speakers must meet English proficiency requirements for admission and for graduation from UW.
With different requirements for admission consideration and graduation, it can be confusing for students and advisers.
Come to this session to learn about the many options available for students to meet those requirements and to discuss
best practices for ensuring that English language requirements don’t hold back students before or after they transfer.
Coursework and Beyond: Preparing for Health Professional Programs
Julie Lancour and Dan Poux, UAA Pre-Health Advising, UW
Many transfer students struggle to balance requirements for their major with other coursework and activities they need
when applying to medical school, dental school and other health professional programs. Beyond grades and test scores,
medical school admissions committees (and future patients) are looking for more than an interest in science and a
desire to help people. Join UW’s pre-health advisers and explore how you can help transfer students prepare to be
compelling and competitive applicants to health professional programs.
Submitting Your Best! Prepare for the Foster School of Business Application
Kathleen Rascon, UW foster School of Business; Christina Kerr, UAA Advising
This session is designed to help advisers build a greater understanding of what the Foster School of Business
undergraduate admissions process looks like and why it takes two years of planning to get there. We will cover
components of the application, tips for course planning and the importance of parallel planning for another major.
3:30-4:00 p.m.
Meet Your UW Liaison!
After the last breakout session stop by the Alder Commons and meet the UAA adviser who is the liaison for advisers at
your school. UAA established the liaison system this year to assist CTC advisers in helping their students plan for a
successful transfer. Your liaison is here to answer your questions and help you navigate the UW information web so that
you can best assist your students with transfer planning.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs,
activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services
Office (DSO) at least ten days in advance of the event at: (206) 543-6450 (voice), (206) 543-6452 (TTY), (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or
dso@u.washitngton.edu.