Advising and student affairs staff were invited to participate in a morning of presentations dedicated to academic advising on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
AGENDA
8:30 to 8:55 a.m. – Meet & Greet with Members of the Academic Advising Mentoring Board (AAMAB)*
9-10 a.m. – Results and Discussion - Academic Advising Survey to Students
10:15-11:15 a.m. – Helping McGill Students: It Takes a Village
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Emerging Adulthood: The New Developmental Stage and its Implications for University Academic Advisers
* The Academic Advising and Mentoring Board is comprised of McGill alumni and parents who work with the Dean of Students to enhance the visibility of academic advising and mentoring at McGill.
Session Details
Helping McGill Students: It Takes a Village
Presented by Dr. Vera Romano, Director, Counselling Services and Miss Lina Di Genova, Manager - Student Assessment, Office of the Executive Director of Services for Students
This talk presented an ecological model of assisting students and a snapshot of psychological wellness from the Mental Health and Counselling Benchmark study.
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Helping McGill Students: It Takes a Village
Emerging Adulthood: The New Developmental Stage and its Implications for University Academic Advisers
Presented by Dr. Nancy Heath, Human Development and School/Applied Child Psychology, Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology
Recent research has suggested that over the last few decades the transition from adolescence into early adulthood has altered. Young people (age 18-25) today are taking longer to attain adulthood, behaving in a manner that is a combination of late adolescence and early adulthood, newly termed “emerging adulthood”. What does this mean for Academic Advisers? Advisers need to know what is normative behaviour for the young people they are advising. What are the expectations and life pursuits of this new stage of development? How does this influence their educational choices? These critical issues were explored with reference to current evidence.
Presentation Available Here:
Emerging Adulthood: The New Developmental Stage and Implications for University Academic Advisers