Session Welcome & Opening Remarks, 8:30 - 8

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Resources for Undocumented Students at
CAL
The population of undocumented students on our campus is significantly growing in a short period
of time. As a result, all staff and faculty are urged to be equipped with information on the services
and resources available on campus to help meet these students' needs. Come learn about the
Undocumented Student Program and its different services for undocumented students at Cal.
Come by our poster session to learn more about the Advancing Practice professional development
program for advisors and student service professionals - we will be announcing our summer and fall
workshops and featured presenters!
Programs run by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships build connections at
different levels — among students, and between students and faculty, staff, workplaces, and the
larger community. This allows students to thrive and build a sense of belonging and confidence as
they progress through their UC Berkeley education.
The Advising Network Community (ANC) is a grassroots staff organization focused on providing
networking and professional development opportunities for the campus advising community. The
ANC brings advisors together to share best practices and exposes them to important campus
resources that benefit both advisors and students.
Join the Cal Answers team and learn how to quickly and easily access data about undergraduate
applicants, registered students, and more. Ever needed to know the demographic mix of students in
your major, which courses have increased in demand, or how many students are Pell Grant
recipients?
The transition to college can be overwhelming for students and money is one of the major stressors
of student life. With rising concern about student loan debt levels, students should know how to
make informed financial decisions.
Learn how the new Student Information Systems (SIS) Project will transform the student experience
through technology. With the new SIS, students will be positioned to make better choices about
their education.
In Fall 2012, the Division of Student Affairs embarked on a multi-year strategic planning process. The
Division established the goal of being the employer of choice in the Bay Area by 2025 with a
cohesive and supportive organizational culture that enhances the student experience. Members of
the “Go Big!” team will share best practices, intended outcomes, and future state for our staff and
students!
A&E Connect is a project designed to break silos and foster communication amongst staff in
Admissions & Enrollment (Admissions, Registrar’s Office, Financial Aid, and Cal Student Central).
Presenter(s) / Department Location
Registration & Poster Session, 8:00 - 8:30am
Advancing Practice: A Professional
Development Program for Advisors
The Office of Undergraduate Research
and Scholarships: Building Connections,
Community, and Confidence to Foster
Academic Excellence
Engaging Staff Advisors through the
Advising Network Community(ANC)
Cal Answers That!
Bears for Financial Success: Empowering
Students to Manage their Finances
Through Peer-to-Peer Education
The SIS Project: At A Glance
We Matter: Building a Workplace Culture
of Trust, Pride and Community
Admissions & Enrollment (A&E) Connect Improving the Staff & the Student
Experience
Poster Session
Liliana Iglesias -Undocumented Student
Program, Centers for Educational Equity &
Excellence(CE3)
Hallway,
Conference Center
Poster Session
Elizabeth Wilcox -Center for Teaching &
Learning, Talent & Organizational
Performance
Leah Carroll & Roxanne Shooshani
-Office of Undergraduate Research and
Scholarships
Hallway,
Conference Center
Poster Session
Christine Tobolski -Advising Network
Community Staff Organization
Hallway,
Conference Center
Poster Session
Jeannine Miles -Office of the CFO,
Sereeta Alexander & Noam Manor -Office
of Planning & Analysis,
Mehmet Sevinc -Cal Answers
Claudia Montesano -Financial Aid and
Scholarships,
Anne Xiong -University Village
Sam Gordon
-SIS Project
Hallway,
Conference Center
Poster Session
James Carrol & Marney Randle -Residential Programs,
Monica Reynoso -Incentive Awards
Program
Hallway,
Conference Center
Poster Session
Josephine Parker & Rita d'Escoto
-Financial Aid and Scholarships, Erika
Bertolino -Office of the Registrar,
Anastacia Kaser -Admissions & Enrollment
Immediate Office
Hallway,
Conference Center
Poster Session
Poster Session
Poster Session
Welcome & Opening Remarks, 8:30 - 8:45am
Hallway,
Conference Center
Hallway,
Conference Center
Hallway,
Conference Center
Krutch Theatre
Session
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Format
Presenter(s) / Department Location
#BlackatCal Series 1.0 | From Senior
Weekend and Beyond, the Complex and
Layered Navigation of the First-Year
Black Experience (part 1 of 2)
Student Affairs Certificate and
Masters Program
As the population of Black students on campus has steadily decreased, expectations for Black
students are at a new height. This program aims to explore the experiences of first-year Black
students at Cal and discuss how to support them through their experience on campus.
Workshop
Krutch Theater
UC Berkeley boasts a wealth of talent and resources which are successfully being marshalled
towards the creation of a Master's Degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs. This session will
provide information on the Certificate program and outline the roadmap towards a full Master's
Degree offering via a partnership with University of San Francisco (USF).
Workshop
UC Berkeley is dedicated to fostering a campus community where all members feel that they belong.
The campus conducted a survey to gather data on climate and inclusion. Differences emerged
based on several demographic characteristics. As a result, the campus is undertaking many
initiatives to improve a sense of community and belonging for all.
The Cal Veteran Services Center (CVSC) utilizes partnerships with key campus allies to create a
welcoming environment for prospective, newly admitted, and continuing student veterans. The
CVSC relies on current Cal Veterans to provide peer advising regarding their transition to this
research university.
Workshop
Matt Griffith -Residential and Student
Service Programs,
S. Nzingha Dugas, -African American
Student Development Office
Sabina Garcia -Student Affairs,
Jamie Riley -LEAD Center,
Ramu Nagappan -University Extension,
Greg Dubrow -Office of Undergraduate
Admissions,
Stacy Holguin -Residential Programs
Andrew Eppig & Liz Halimah -Equity &
Inclusion
The UC Berkeley Campus Climate Survey:
From Analysis to Action
104 / Warring
Wilkinson Room
Come join in a lively and interactive discussion on the history of disability, how laws shaped our
current practices, the boxes those practices create and how to think outside the box, helping
students with disability succeed at school and be ready for the job market.
Through experiential and didactic exercises, participants will have an opportunity to enhance their
cultural awareness, improve their communication skills, and gain deeper awareness of how societal
messages and personal values influence their interactions with others.
Workshop
In this session you will meet members of the UCB Food Security Committee. This committee has
come together to institutionalize an innovative food security model that is proactively alleviating
hunger & providing holistic nutrition security.
Roundtable
Luis Hernandez -Cal Veteran Services
Center
Ron Williams -Cal Veteran Service Center
Brian Vargas -Cal Vet Group,
John Wong & Tejae Dunnivant -Peer
Advisors
Mary Lee Vance, Benjamin Perez, &
Kevin Shields -Disabled Student's
Program
James Kato, Bie Aweh, & Víctor Sánchez
-Residential & Housing Services,
Mark Barajas, MA, Rohini Puri-Bose &
Adisa Anderson -Counseling & Psychological Services
Ruben E. Canedo -Centers for Educational
Equity & Excellence (CE3)
Concurrent Session 1, 9:00 - 10:15am
From Camo to Blue and Gold: Veteran
Belonging at Cal
Disability Now: It Takes a Campus to
Graduate a Disabled Student
My Identities at Work
UCB Food Security Model: Alleviating
Hunger & Holistic Nutrition Security
Workshop
Roundtable
Garden Room
102 / Clark Kerr
Room
203 / Sargent
Johnson Room
204 / Newell Perry
Room
Executive Dining
Room
Session
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Format
Presenter(s) / Department Location
#BlackatCal Series 2.0 | Ain’t I a
Student Too: Do #BlackLivesMatter to
the University? (part 2 of 2)
In this panel, Black students will share their stories of marginalization on a campus with a culture of
anti-Blackness, discuss previous demonstrations and current demands to enhance and support the
Black experience on campus, and share wisdom on how staff & faculty can serve as community allies &
advocates.
During the Summer Bridge Program and the fall term, Peer Academic Counselors (PACs) co-facilitate
weekly seminars around transitioning from High School to College. Seminar topics include: Finding your
voice in a large classroom setting; Active Listening; Emotional Intelligence; Student skits around
self-care, potential roommate issues, partying safe, and dealing with familial transitions.
Student Panel
Yuki Burton M.Ed. -Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)
Krutch Theater
Workshop
102 / Clark Kerr
Room
Pardon the Interruption: An interactive
conversation about Asian American
and Pacific Islander perspectives
This interactive session integrates clickers, technology, and audience engagement as a panel of speakers
share their experiences and frank opinions on some of the most pressing issues facing Asian American
and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students at Cal.
Workshop
The Gold Folder Project: Empowering
GSIs
GSIs and peer advisors are often the first to notice undergraduates in crisis. Indicators such as skipping
class or troubling behavior are often most noticeable to GSIs in labs and discussion sections. The Gold
Folder Project outlines some of the indicators of students in crisis, and the resources available to assist
those individuals.
How can we make the "first-year experience" a positive one for UC Berkeley students? Join us as we
discuss commonly defined high-impact practices, common challenges that first-year students face at UC
Berkeley, and successful strategies that have been developed by NSS, FPF, and Berkeley Connect.
Workshop
Brieanna Wright, Andrea Valencia, &
Kwamena Hansen-Sackey -Incentive
Awards Program, Mitzi Iniguez & Edlynne
Avelar -Educational Opportunity Program,
Bianca Rodriguez Plancarte -Undocumented Student Program
Glenn DeGuzman -Residential and Student
Services and Programs, Rod Santos -Office
of the Registrar, Dawn Lee Tu PhD & rita
zhang -Asian Pacific American Student
Development, Sue Bell -Counseling and
Psychological Services,
Margie Winn & Brent Delbridge -Earth and
Planetary Science
203 / Sargent
Johnson Room
Modeling the Way: Using SERC and the
Sustainability Student Community as a
Case Study for Enhancing Student
Belonging and Community
UC Berkeley students and staff established a Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) to
cultivate a collaborative space for strengthening the collective effectiveness of the sustainability
community, and providing resources for students to actualize their visions of a more equitable, socially
just, and resilient future.
Student Panel
Building Inclusive Community Through
Restorative Practices
Get to know your colleagues on a deeper level, and explore some tools and strategies for better
conversations and conflict resolution among staff and with students. The Restorative Justice Center and
Staff Ombuds office will present an experiential training in community-building circles and other
restorative practices.
The EECS department admits approximately 10 new students each year who are under the age of 17.
These very young students frequently feel disconnected from our community, and often have lower
persistence rates and worse outcomes. In this session, we will open a campus-wide dialogue about best
practices for serving our youngest students.
Meaghan DeRespini & Ariana Lee -Fall
Program for Freshmen, Michele Rabkin
-Berkeley Connect, Emily Krechel -New
Student Services
Katherine Walsh & Sharon Daraphonhdeth -Student Environmental Resource
Center -LEAD Center, Kun Yang -Student
Affairs Learning & Development, Pallavi
Sherikar -Facilities Services, Hanna Morris
-ASUC Student Union
Julie Shackford-Bradley -Restorative
Justice Center, Lauren Bloom -Staff
Ombuds Office.
Sarah Van Nostrand & Susanne Kauer,
-Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences (EECS)
John Kearny Room
Concurrent Session 2, 10:30 - 11:45am
Peer Academic Counselor Facilitated
Courses
Beyond Survival: Helping Our
First-Year Students Thrive
Advising Doogie Howser: A Campus
Discussion about how to Best Serve
our Very Young Students
Workshop
Roundtable
Garden Room
104 / Warring
Wilkinson Room
204 / Newell Perry
Room
Executive Dining
Room
Session
Description
Format
Berkeley Interactive Theater: No Right
Answers Courses
Berkeley Interactive Theater presents an interactive workshop that asks us to evaluate our many
responses to the questions of identity on campus. Explore with us for 75 minutes the harmful impact of
assumptions based on race and class within the context of academia. Two theater pieces and additional
audience participation opportunities will be featured in this year's presentation.
Using Derald W. Sue’s work as a theoretical framework, we will explore the topic of microaggressions
through an interactive discussion and role play. At the end of this workshop, participants will learn
strategies on how to address microaggressions if you unintentionally committed a microaggression, are
a part of a marginalized group, or if you are an advocate.
Dr. Amy Honigman will demonstrate how to help students build resilience with empirically validated
approaches.
Christopher Hunn will provide concrete and simple things advisors can do to passively support students
self-efficacy and resiliency while simultaneously mitigating effects of Imposter Syndrome and Stereotype
Threat.
Times are changing. It's widely acknowledged that many academic graduate students are interested in
non-academic/non-tenure track careers either by preference or for the practical consideration that
there are not enough of these jobs available to current graduates. We will be discussing these changes
within academia at large and on Berkeley campus in particular with an aim to helping our students
navigate this very important transition point in their careers.
Foster youth are the smallest group of all underserved populations on college campuses and least likely
to graduate. National data reveals only 1-3% of foster youth earn college degrees. The Cal Independent
Scholars Network staff will discuss reasons for this abysmal statistic, effective community building
approaches, program impact, positive student development and engagement strategies. .
Presenter(s) / Department Location
Afternoon Keynote & Concurrent Session 3, 1:15 - 2:30pm
Leading by Example -Combating
Microaggressions in Everyday
Interactions
Successful "Failing": Helping Students
Appreciate Their Strengths and Build
Resilience
Evolving Climate: Supporting Graduate
Students who pursue Non-Academic
Careers
Cultivating Community & Academic
Success for Foster Youth
Keynote
Michael Mansfield, Maria Lucero Padilla
and Berkeley Interactive Theater
Krutch Theater
Workshop
Breanne Tcheng & Dahlia Case -Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
102 / Clark Kerr
Room
Workshop
Amy Honigman Ph.D. -Counseling and
Psychological Services, Christopher Hunn Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences (EECS)
Garden Room
Roundtable
Anne Meyers -Sociology, Andrew Green,
Career Center, Rose Kanton -Graduate
Student Leadership Team, UC Berkeley
Beyond Academia Conference
104 / Warring
Wilkinson Room
Workshop
Deborah Lowe Martinez J.D. & Zefora
Ortiz -Centers for Educational Equity &
Excellence, Yuki Burton M.Ed -Educational
Opportunity Program (EOP)
204 / Newell Perry
Room
Session
Description
Pecha Kucha
The concept of Pecha Kucha originated among designers in Tokyo, Japan in 2003 as a format to share
innovative ideas in a short amount of time. The format of a Pecha Kucha session is a series of short
presentations; twenty slides per presentation, 20 seconds per slide - each presentation lasts exactly 6
minutes and 40 seconds. Each presenter will share a personal experience or story that influences how
they build belonging and community for students, with a short Q & A at the end of each presentation.
Keynote
Four Steps to Success: How to
REALLY Make a Difference for
Your Students
Many students come to Cal already concerned that they do not belong. They suffer under myths and
misperceptions about Cal that actually make this sense of "not belonging" even more powerful. These
feelings can truly disrupt their education. This workshop will: clarify some very common myths that
significantly impact our students; discuss real-life cases of how students' educations and choices were
negatively impacted by these myths; and highlight four simple advising tips that bust these myths.
The Office of Planning and Analysis and Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education have analyzed the
characteristics of students that graduate in 4 versus 4.5 years (frosh) and 2 and 2.5 years (transfers) to
determine the predictors of the "extra semester". We will discuss predictors of timely graduation and
programmatic considerations to improve Berkeley's 4-year graduation rate.
This panel will highlight the collective efforts of the International Student Success Working Group
(ISSWG) to support the unique learning needs of international students. It focuses on data-driven
program designs that aim to foster community and bolster academic success among both international
and domestic students.
Workshop
As admission to Cal becomes more selective, it is important for applicants to share their full experiences
in order to stand out in our holistic review process. By having a more diverse student population, we will
enhance Berkeley’s overall campus culture for the better. So how do we reshape the idea of admissions
to benefit every community? By developing the “Berkeley Narrative.”
Berkeley Interactive Theater has tranformed from an on-going course to an on-going theater company
to help do trainings on campus in the complex arenas of race, class, sexuality, identity, age, and ability.
Using scripts from the last 6 years of Stay Day Presentations, we will look at what theater is able to
contribute to a community over time to create more memorable and powerful learning experiences
through awareness-raising and skill-building opportunities.
Roundtable
Format
Presenter(s) / Department
Location
Yuki Burton M.Ed -Educational Opportunity
Program, Ruben E. Canedo -Centers for Educational
Equity & Excellence (CE3), Nzingha Dugas -Multicultural Student Development Unit, Justin Gomez
-Coordinator, LEAD Center, Susan Hagstrom -College
of Environmental Design, Breanne Tcheng, -Electrical
Engineering & Computer Sciences, finn schneider
-Office of the Dean of Students
Torey Bookstein -Letters and Science Office of
Undergraduate Advising
Krutch Theater
Concurrent Session 4, 2:45 - 4:00pm
Graduation Rates: Explaining the
"Extra Semester"
Cultivating Community:
Collaborating to Promote
International Student Success
Admission For All? A Look Into
Cal’s Admissions Process and
How It Shapes Campus Diversity
Acting for Social Change: UCB's
Interactive Theater Company as
Opportunity and Campus
Resource
Workshop
Workshop
Roundtable
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Amber Machamer & Lexi Shankster Ph.D. -Office of
Planning and Analysis
Elizabeth Olin, Seereta Alexander Ph.D. -Institutional Research Analyst, Office of Planning & Analysis,
Amy Griggs -Lead Advisor for Undergraduate
Student Services & Program Coordinator, Berkeley
International Office, Cynthia Schrager Ph.D.
-Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education,
Roseanne Fong -Director, College of Letters and
Science, Khuyen Nguyen, Ph.D. -International
Student Program Coordinator, Student Learning
Center, Sarah Bang -International Student Career
Counselor, Career Center
Kristian Cloyd -Office of Undergraduate Admissions,
OUA, Erica Sanchez -Assistant Director of
Admissions, OUA, Ebelio Mondragon -Admissions
Advisor, OUA
Michael Mansfield -Lecturer and Undergraduate
Academic Advisor, Louel Senores -UCB 2009 alum,
actor, and playwright
102 / Clark Kerr
Room
104 / Warring
Wilkinson Room
203 / Sargent
Johnson Room
John Kearny
Room
Executive Dining
Room