<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Hello Colleagues,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We have received some great proposals for the concurrent sessions for new students scheduled for Academic Life Thursday, however:</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="text-align:center">We have not yet received enough proposals aimed at exposing students to the wealth of exciting academic-related opportunities available on campus</b><span style="text-align:center">. </span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="text-align:center">The <a href="https://forms.gle/7yqfPHff4UEpPGkg8" target="_blank">Academic Life Session</a> form is open until Wednesday, August 7th. </b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This is a chance to showcase what your discipline does and to get students interested in participating in courses your department offers. It could also be related to how activities related to your major assist students in maintaining health and wellness. </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I've pasted a copy of the original call from June 25 under my signature (please note that this is not the same as the call that went out from Larry Allen looking for non-academic sessions for Friday or Saturday). Plan for 20 minute sessions, repeated 3 times with different students participating in active learning. We want to show our new students a vibrant campus, ready to help them reach their goals.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">JoAnn</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>JoAnn Gleeson-Kreig, PhD</b></font></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font size="2">Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Kehoe 807</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">518-564-2195</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=101+Broad+Street+Plattsburgh,+NY+12901&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">101 Broad Street</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font size="2"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=101+Broad+Street+Plattsburgh,+NY+12901&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank">Plattsburgh, NY 12901</a></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><font size="2"><a href="http://plattsburgh.edu/" target="_blank">plattsburgh.edu</a></font></b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><br></b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><img src="https://web.plattsburgh.edu/files/914/images/SUNY-Plattsburgh-Email-Logo-2018.jpg" class="gmail-CToWUd"><br></b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b><br></b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b>June 25</b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hello Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thursday, August 22, 2024 marks the first </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Welcome to Academic Life</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> day of the reimagined student orientation program. Students will start the day with an introduction to their academic departments or staff who advise undeclared students. In the afternoon, there will be a simulated “my first class” experience for all attendees, followed by concurrent sessions for students to learn more about aspects of academic life at Plattsburgh. The goal is to provide them with a large variety of informative, interesting and interactive sessions to choose from. It is also a chance for new students to gain comfort with navigating campus, experiencing faculty and staff in welcoming settings, and to increase new students’ readiness for the semester on many levels. This is a chance to help students learn more about the great things we do here and to get excited about it! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The sessions will be clustered around three main objectives:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Exploration of academic resources and university offices that support any facet of a student’s academic success (e.g., Learning Center, Library, ARO, H.U.B., etc.); </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Discovery of the rich academic, scientific and artistic/expressive, opportunities available on campus, such as our theaters, art, exhibits, the planetarium, labs, unique features of our majors, and more; and,</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Advice about adjusting and succeeding, like guidance in knowing what to expect in the first weeks and semester (e.g., how to manage time, common college terminology, choosing a major, your secrets to success, overcoming homesickness, handling the workload); and help with taking care of any other academic business (e.g., changing a Cardinal Core Curriculum course, taking language placement tests, asking questions about first year composition). </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This should be a vibrant afternoon that supports students' engagement with faculty and staff, each other, and academic spaces. By providing an engaging day that combines structure and choice, and exposes students to a variety of places and people, we also reduce their first-week anxieties significantly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please consider sponsoring an activity–all divisions and departments welcome!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Complete this </span><a href="https://forms.gle/PUqKcu9zggyaKHJe7" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(244,204,204);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">brief proposal form</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> to share your ideas for a 20 minute session. All sessions are planned to be repeated 3 times, but if that poses a problem, let us know.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thanks in advance for coming up with some great ideas! Contact one of us if you have any questions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">JoAnn and Elizabeth</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>