IGSD Advisor Retreat 2007 Resources
This year’s Retreat was built around a holistic approach to an off-campus experience. We gave participants the opportunity to think about the cultural aspects of going off campus and being more intentional about students’ growth throughout and beyond the experience. This was an opportunity for advisors and center directors to start planning for next year’s off campus experience with input from other experienced advisors, professionals in student life, education abroad, the career development center and students who have participated in the program.
Discussion and interaction focused on the following issues:
Cultural preparation
Language preparation
Making the most of where you are
Opportunities for reflection
Facilitating re-entry in a meaningful way for WPI students
Removing barriers and increasing incentives to more advisors becoming involved in the program
The agenda below was developed for this Retreat. Click on the links for presentations, documents produced that day and other information.
| 2007 IGSD Annual Retreat for Advisors, Hoagland-Pincus Center, Shrewsbury, MA | ||
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| 8:10 - 8:30 | Natalie Mello | Introductions (see who attended the retreat) |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Natalie |
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| 9:00 - 9:15 | Rick Vaz |
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| 9:15 - 10:15 | Charlie Morse | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Natalie & Ellen Breau | Brief review of new model of orientation and introduce new model for re-entry programming |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Chrys Demetry | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Natalie with student facilitators | Table break out groups to discuss different areas of the “whole experience” and how they could be improved (see what each group came up with) |
| 12:45 - 1:45 | Things Center Directors can do (program specific, each year) regarding cultural prep and on-site activities |
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| 12:45 - 1:05 | Rick & Chrys | |
| 1:05 - 1:25 | Peder Pedersen | |
| 1:25 - 1:45 | Sue Vernon-Gerstenfeld | |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | Things on-site advisors can do regarding cultural prep & on-site activities |
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| 1:45 - 2:30 | David DiBiasio, Guillermo Salazar and Natalie |
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| 2:00 - 2:15 | Rob Krueger | |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | Fabio Carrera | Venice B06 |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Natalie | Table group brainstorm – what will YOU do for your site? (see what each site will try to implement in the coming year) |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Rick and Art Gerstenfeld | Discussion on how to involve more advisors in the program – identifying barriers and incentives (see what the group came up with for how to involve more people in advising off campus) |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Natalie | Wrap–Up: complete evaluation (read what attendees had to say about the retreat) |
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