Weekly Digest: Home Office Edition

This week's background photo comes from Kellee Green. It is of "Moose shedding their velvet in Denali National Park – and yes, people were walking right up to them to take pictures."

If you have vacation photos you'd like to share, please feel free to email them to me with a brief description of what they feature!

Please contact me at mjenn@uga.edu if you have suggestions or if there is anything you'd like me to include in the digest.

Nominated by: Jon Hanna

Qualifications: Will work for food

International Transfer Credit Reminder (from Judy Iakovou)

• The Office of Global Engagement wants to remind advisors that the course evaluation platform should not be used for study abroad transfer courses.
• Those should go through the OGE transfer credit approval form when students apply to study abroad.

New (again) Transfer Credit Evaluation Link

• The new, correct link CAS Link to the Transfer Credit Evaluation platform/survey is: https://advising.uga.edu/student-resources/credit-eval-survey. It should be up and working.
• According to Judy, it might be best just to use the SAGE to-do.
• Please let Judy Iakovou (jiakovou@uga.edu) know if you or your students experience any problems with this link.

SAGE Cleared to Register Flag

• Advisors can now see whether or not a student has been cleared to register in SAGE. Yay!

Changes to Registration Help this Week

• Grayson will be on leave this week and won’t be available for the Tuesday & Wednesday morning 10 am - 11 am zoom registration help hours. Therefore, Grayson's registration help sessions will be canceled.
• Ashton will still be available during those times.
• So far, we haven't had any students come to the Zoom Registration help sessions.

Freshman College Registration

• Freshman College students can register this Friday the 26th, beginning at 9:00 am. Mike and Jenny will be available to help DAE with advising-related questions.

New Placement Test Information Smore

• According to an OL I spoke to last week, the most frequently asked questions from students regard placement testing. To try to help, I've created a Smore with placement test information.
• Feel free to share the link with your students:
• https://www.smore.com/92bhx

Chemistry Diagnostic Test and Website

• The diagnostic is taken through Qualtrics, not ELC. It’s an optional self-assessment that is intended to help students choose between 1210 and 1211. Last summer, each student received an email with a link to the diagnostic after registering for CHEM 1211. We aren't sure if that is happening this summer, but Doug is checking on it.

• There is some useful information on the Chemistry website, but there is also some outdated information as well, and the indexing for these pages has gotten messed up. Doug is working with the department to try to remove outdated information.

• In the meantime, you can email him at Stinnett@uga.edu with questions.

Biology Seats (from Elizabeth)

• Biology will be adding a few additional seats to 1107+L and 1108+L in such a way that the lecture and lab won’t conflict.
• Students who need Biology 1103 lab and find it full can register for the BIOL 1113E (online version of the lab) instead.

International Student Orientation

• Several incoming international students have been making their way through the New Student Orientation program prior to the online International Student Orientation program’s launch later this month.
• Due to the shift of the International Student Orientation program to an online delivery ISL is not requiring incoming international students to complete this international student-specific orientation, but is highly recommending they do so.
• International students have received communications from ISL about the international student-specific orientation, however, ISL would greatly appreciate it if you would remind your students during your advising meeting.
• International students can access the orientation starting July 1 by simply logging into eLC.
• Regarding VLP Holds
• The Immigration Services team is adjusting the effective date of Verification of Lawful Presence (VLP) holds on student records to August 19. This should be completed by Friday, June 26.
• Once these adjustments are made, international undergraduate students may begin registering for courses and making adjustments to their class registrations up until the final effective date of August 19.
• All international students must complete the online check in process with Immigration Services prior to August 19, 2020.
• Immigration Services and International Student Life will remind students periodically over the summer to complete the online immigration check-in process when they physically arrive in the US.
• If a student successfully checks-in with Immigration Services before August 19, they will be able to immediately proceed with registering for classes and can make changes to courses as usual beyond August 19.
• Students who fail to check-in with Immigration Services before August 19 will be reported to the Registrar’s office, and will not be allowed to attend classes until the immigration check-in process is completed and the VLP hold lifted.
• If this is not completed by the end of the add drop period, these students will be dropped from their fall semester courses, and will jeopardize their legal status in the US.
• Advising 101 Resource
• ISL has implemented an Advising 101 session in the International Student Orientation program. Due to the shift to online orientation, we are pleased to offer this resource through a recorded video presentation which can be accessed via the YouTube link below OR through an embedded Kaltura video on the ISL website (also linked below).
• We are providing both options as we know some students in China may not be able to access YouTube.
• Moving forward, we kindly ask that you share this resource with international student advisees prior to your appointment with them. (Kellee has added the links for the I.S. advising video to the OSAS welcome letter, so advisors don’t have to ask their I.S. students to watch it. (Although repetition never hurts).
• Julia Butler-Mayes has applied a SAGE flag to these students so that advisors will know if they are setting up an appointment with an international student.
• International students who have already been advised will have access to this same resource when the online International Student Orientation launches on July 1 – therefore there is no need to circle back with previously advised international students.
• YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BoCp2NiFk
• Kaltura video link: https://isl.uga.edu/content_page/international-student-orientation-advising-101-module-content-page
  
• If you have questions or if students encounter any issues, please do not hesitate to email isl@uga.edu.

• COFA 5950 flyer
• GRMN 3015 flyer
• Re-Imaging the Post-COVID Future for Local Communities flyer
• Double Dawgs Degree Works templates
• Chemistry 1211 Tip Sheet (thanks to Anne Vencill)

Easy Zoom Meeting Set-Up

• If you are sick of setting up a separate Zoom appointment for each student, you can use your Personal Meeting ID as your location in SAGE, and every student can use the same link. For more information, email Mike (mervam@uga.edu). or see these instructions:
• https://advising.uga.edu/_resources/documents/advising_via-zoom.pdf

Double Dawgs Templates in Degree Works

• The Office of the Registrar has added templates to the DegreeWorks Plans tab for Double Dawgs programs.
• The templates are based on the 5-year sample programs of study for each Double Dawgs pathway.
• Additional information, including the list of approved pathways and the sample programs of study, is available at http://doubledawgs.uga.edu/.
• Graduate courses on the templates that satisfy requirements for both the undergraduate and graduate programs are marked as critical and have the following note attached: Graduate courses used to satisfy both graduate and undergraduate degree program requirements.
• Information about how these courses are processed is also attached as a reference.

New PBIO Department Head

• Lisa Donovan will be stepping down as PBIO head this summer and John Burke is taking her place. We're not yet sure if the transition will be on July 1st or August 1st.

Chemistry 1211 Tips Sheet

• Anne Marie Vencill has shared her wonderful tips sheet. It's attached!

PSYC 5850, Psychopharmacology, CRN 48171, Fall 2020

• The Athens Psychology department has partnered with Griffin faculty to offer one section of 5850 in teleconferences via Zoom to up to ten Athens students.

• Other sections of 5850 are also being offered live in Athens this fall, but this option may be more appealing to students needing to limit their time on campus.

• Because it’s taught on MW from 11-12:15, our students will need to have both 10:10 and 11:15 open to be able to make it work.

• The class will be online but synchronous.

New GRMN 3015 Course Description

• There seems to be a bit of confusion among students about the difference between GRMN 3010 and 3015, which are essentially two versions of the same course.
• The attached flyer clarifies the focus of GRMN 3015, which is designed for students in the GRMN-ENGR Dual Degree Program or any student interested in scientific fields and in practical aspects of living, studying and working in Germany.
• This summer the department has had several incoming students place into this level, so this info is relevant to all lower division advisors.
• The contact person for questions is the 3015 instructor, Dr. Katie Chapman (katieec@uga.edu).
• See attached flyer for details.

COFA 5950, GC: Green Cities and the Urban Environment (Fall 2020)

• The human-engineered environment in cities and towns functions as an ecosystem. This course introduces natural resources management in the developed ecosystem. The impacts of management on human health, water, climate change, and greenscape will also be discussed.

Portfolium Career Center Accounts

• The UGA Career Center has decided that they will not be renewing their contract with Portfolium and plan to discontinue use on June 30, 2020. Late last week, they emailed UGA students that have a Portfolium account to let them know.
• You are welcome to direct them to contact Maggie O’Brien by email at maggieob@uga.edu.
• Students will be able to maintain access to their Portfolium account by taking these simple steps:

Action required to maintain access to your Portfolium account: Add a non-uga email address to your account.

You can add a non-uga email address to your account by doing the following:

1. Log-in to your UGA Portfolium account (https://uga.portfolium.com/)
2. Click “Me” located in the top right corner of your screen
3. Select “Settings” from the drop-down menu
4. Click “Email” located on the left
5. Click “Add New Email”
6. Type your preferred non-uga email and click “Add”

Re-Imaging the Post-COVID Future for Local Communities

• This project offers students from all UGA majors an opportunity to put their ingenuity to work while introducing them to “design thinking” skills that help create ideas for new ways that businesses—such as those in downtown Athens—might re-imagine their futures. While participation does not offer students experiential learning credit, it does offer the opportunity for selected students to pursue their projects further toward an entrepreneurship certificate, a certificate program that some students already pursue alongside their Franklin majors.
• The point of contact for this initiative is Don Chambers (donald.chambers@uga.edu) in the Terry College of Business.
• See attached flyer for details