[Ucrcompteachers] Proposed ILearn Link

[John Briggs]

ELWR Instructors:

      I have been in communication with Susan Allen Ortega, the Vice 
Chancellor of Student Affairs and Dean of Students, about the possibility 
of including a link on each ELWR ILearn site that gives new freshmen access 
to a wide variety of the new counseling and advising options designed to 
help them thrive in at UCR.  The link would be a simple button, and would 
be placed on our sites by Computing and Communications.  The link on our 
sites would be a quarter-long reminder that help is available.  Susan 
explains that "The series offers a wide array of workshops focused on 
common challenges facing UCR students outside the classroom that have the 
potential to undermine students' academic success.  Workshops address 
topics such as managing time, mastering technology resources, translating 
the college experience to first generation families, exploring major and 
career, managing money and more."   If we chose to have the link 
installed,  instructors who wished not to have the link on their sites 
would simply e-mail Leo Schouest at Leo.Schouest at ucr.edu to have it 
removed. The weblink to more information about the series is: 
http://success.ucr.edu/content/blogcategory/7/16/

      If you have any comments about this idea, please e-mail me over the 
next week or so.   If we have a consensus that the idea is worth pursuing, 
I will ask Leo to go ahead for this year.  We would review the matter at 
the end of the year.

John Briggs
ELWR Director