{"id":2153,"date":"2020-11-18T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:57:47","slug":"recast-greener-foundations-students-coming-to-the-academic-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2020\/11\/recast-greener-foundations-students-coming-to-the-academic-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAST | Greener Foundations Students coming to the Academic Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From:<\/strong> Kennedy, Cynthia &lt;KennedyC@evergreen.edu&gt; <br><strong>Sent:<\/strong> Wednesday, November 18, 2020 1:40 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello colleagues \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this rainy day in the\nPacific Northwest finds you well.&nbsp; I am writing with news of our many\nFirst-Year students who are finishing their 8<sup>th<\/sup> week at the college,\nincluding their 8<sup>th<\/sup> week in our Greener Foundations course. For\nthose of you who aren\u2019t sure what I am talking about, Greener Foundations (GF)\nis one piece of our larger First-Year Experience Initiative that offers both\ncurricular co-curricular support to our first-time, first-year students. GF is\nthe 2-credit class (linked to an Academic Program) designed to help students\nlearn navigate our unique college as well as develop skills to help them thrive\nboth academically and in community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we can all agree that\nthe Academic Fair is one of our \u201cunique\u201d features (!). For this reason, we have\nspent some time helping the students think about what they might be interested\nin studying while they are here at the college as well as showing them ways to\nfind what they are looking for in our catalog (which is not necessarily an easy\nfeat) in preparation for the Academic Fair week 9.&nbsp; None of these\nfirst-year students are being encouraged to leave their multi-quarter programs,\nbut they are being asked to come to the Academic Fair to help them make\nprogress towards the following six learning goals we agreed we would like to\nhelp them develop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Understand Evergreen\u2019s unique approach to education,\n     and know how to navigate a variety of academic modes and paths of study<\/li><li>Develop intellectual curiosity across multiple academic\n     fields<\/li><li>Imagine possible careers and develop plans to reach\n     those outcomes<\/li><li>Develop mentoring relationships with faculty<\/li><li>Develop effective relationships with academic advisors\n     and staff across the college<\/li><li>Develop confidence in using college offices and\n     resources<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, they are\ncoming to the Academic Fair to meet you. So, please welcome them into your Zoom\nRoom. Talk with them. Be curious about who they are. Ask them questions. Answer\ntheirs. On some level, many of them are terrified to do this under normal\ncircumstances and Zoom makes it even more awkward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When faculty ask what we can\ndo to help with enrollment and keep students, this is one main way we can do\nthat \u2013 show up and welcome our students. And, they will also be visiting our\nstudent support resources zoom rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, truthfully, last fall,\nwhen the Academic Fair was in-person, I was terribly disappointed that about\n1\/3 of the students reported they came to talk with faculty they had carefully\nchosen from the catalog who weren\u2019t present at their tables. That was a huge\nbummer. If we can\u2019t even show up or answer our emails, why would students want\nto come here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, the good news is that,\nmost of us were there and are happy to welcome students. So, please know that\nthey are curious about you and are reading your program descriptions right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are curious, I am\nattaching the assignment they will be bringing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for all you are doing\nto support our students every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In community, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cynthia Kennedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First-Year Faculty Fellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Kennedy, Cynthia &lt;KennedyC@evergreen.edu&gt; Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 1:40 PM Hello colleagues \u2013 I hope this rainy day in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2778,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}