Revisit session topics and available video spanning the history of the Mentoring and Advising Summit.
- 2023 Mentoring and Advising Summit - March 3, 2023
We are pleased to have welcomed over 1,300 attendees representing 100+ institutions and organizations from around the globe to the sixth annual Mentoring and Advising Summit.
The vision for this virtual summit was to explore how we can continue to build a strong culture of inclusion and belonging in our mentoring and advising work. As we strive to enhance and enrich Pitt’s educational offerings, it is increasingly important to embrace different ideas, critical perspectives, challenges, and lived experiences. During the event, participants engaged with and learned about specific tools, techniques, theories, and concepts to support students as they chart goals, develop enduring networks of colleagues and mentors, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation.
Several presentations from the event are available to view on the 2023 Summit Session Recordings page.
Opening Keynote: Fireside chat with Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd and Dr. Gail Gibson, Executive Director of the Kessler Scholars Collaborative
Sessions:
- Pitt Advisor Certification Training: Ongoing Impact and Lessons Learned
- Advising and Student Success - Success Through Collaboration and Partnerships
- Unmasking the Impostor Phenomenon
- Mentoring Doctoral Students: Advice from Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Winners
- Visa Pathways: Employment in Academia for International Students and Scholars
- Building and Expanding Your Professional Networks
- Equity and Excellence in Advising: Defining roles and responsibilities to best support students
- Mentoring Trainees and Managing Difficult Conversations
- The Equity/Excellence Imperative for Advising at Research Institutions: Insights from the Boyer 2030 Report
- Lunch & Lightning Talks
- Career Conversations: A Nexus for Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Mentoring Moms: Strategies for Serving Single Mothers in Higher Ed
- Aligning Expectations--with the University of Pittsburgh's Mentoring Academy
- Asking for What You Need to Succeed in Academia
- Consistency in Advising at R1/R2 Institutions
- Holistic Academic Planning: A Student-Athlete Model
- Providing Culturally Responsive Care on Campus
- Immigration Basics in Advising: Understanding Enrollment Requirements, Maintaining F-1 status, and Employment
- Pre-Advising Workshops: How to Create a Successful Pre-Advising Workshop for More Effective Individual Advising Appointments
- Using the Career Development Plan as a Mentoring Tool to Support Postdoc Success
- Mentoring PhD students through Dissertation and Degree Completion
- Leadership Buy-In and Culture Shifts at R1 & R2 Institutions
- Understanding the Mentoring Needs of International Graduate Students and Post-Docs
- Keynote Anchor Session - Dr. Vincent Tinto
- 2022 Mentoring and Advising Summit - March 4, 2022
We are pleased to have welcomed 967 attendees representing 141 institutions and organizations from five countries on three continents to the fifth annual Mentoring and Advising Summit.
The vision for this virtual summit was to explore how we can continue to build a strong culture of inclusion and belonging in our mentoring and advising work. As we strive to enhance and enrich Pitt’s educational offerings, it is increasingly important to embrace different ideas, critical perspectives, challenges, and lived experiences.
During the event, participants engaged with and learned about specific tools, techniques, theories, and concepts to support students as they chart goals, develop enduring networks of colleagues and mentors, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation.
Several presentations from the event are available to view on the 2022 Summit Session Recordings page and the Lightning Talks page.
Opening Keynote: Fireside chat with Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd and Laurie A. Schreiner, Professor and Chair of the Department of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University
Sessions:
- Degree Finder: Empowering Students to Explore Academic Paths at Pitt
- Flourish at Pitt – Promoting Emotional Well-Being
- University Educational Outreach Center Visioning Session
- Navigating Challenging Advising Conversations
- Mentoring and Advising First-Generation Graduate and Professional Students
- Mentoring and Advising International Postdoctoral Fellows
- Plenary Session - Mentorship 101: You Are Not Your Disability
- Grad Plenary - Advising and Mentoring PhD Students for Careers Beyond Academia: Alumni Experiences
- Postdoc Plenary - Supporting Postdoctoral Fellows’ Wellness
- Lunch & Lightning Talks
- Boyer 2030: Advising and Student Success
- Advisors and Mentors as Ambassadors of Belonging: A Masterclass on How to get the Belonging Message Right
- Pitt's Provost Academy
- CivWiz: Gamified, Mobile Civic, and Cultural Learning
- Advancing Meaningful Mentoring at the University of Pittsburgh: The Mentoring Academy
- Incorporating a Coaching Approach into Advising and Mentoring
- Beyond the 50-Minute Hour: Translating the benefits of mental health counseling into advising, mentoring, coaching, and other structures for supporting student well-being and success.
- Pitt ACT: an Online Certification and Training Program to Promote Equitable Access to Resources
- Helping Conditionally Admitted Students Succeed through a Bridge Program at Pitt-Greensburg
- “You Speak Good English!” The Hidden Messages of Microaggressions
- Personalized Professional Development: Enhancing Job Planning for Career Starters, Switchers, and Enhancers
- Career Development Plans: A Purposeful Approach to Postdoctoral Training
- Advising Redesign at R1/R2: Four Case Studies
- Innovation Group Discussion about Student Support Services
- Closing Plenary - Pathways to Success: Pitt Student Advising and Mentoring Stories
- Grad Closing Plenary - A Conversation with the School Ombuds: Helping Graduate Students Navigate Current Challenges
- Post Doc Closing Plenary - Mentoring Postdocs for Careers Beyond Academia
- UERU Closing Plenary - Dismantling Systemic Burdens on Students’ Mental Health: Nobody’s Perfect
- 2021 Mentoring and Advising Summit - March 11, 2021
The vision for the fourth annual Mentoring and Advising Summit was to explore how we can continue to build a strong culture of inclusion in our mentoring and advising work. In striving to enhance and enrich Pitt’s educational offerings, it is increasingly important to embrace different ideas, critical perspectives, challenges, and lived experiences. During this virtual summit, participants engaged with and learned about specific tools, techniques, theories, and concepts to support students as they chart goals, develop enduring networks of colleagues and mentors, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation.
On Thursday, March 11, 2021, 950 people from over 100 institutions and organizations across the country gathered virtually at the 2021 Mentoring and Advising Summit.
Several presentations from the event are available to view on the 2021 Summit Session Recordings page.
Opening Keynote: Fireside chat with Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd and Darris Means, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Sessions:
- Access to Success: Collaboration is Key
- Creating Change Through Improvement Science: Satisfactory Academic Progress Intervention
- Grad Track Panel: Advising and Mentoring Black, Indigenous and Students of Color in Graduate Programs
- Pitt's Transcript Distinctions
- Treat Yo' Self
- Using Development Theory to Enhance the Student/Advisor Experience
- Grad Track Plenary Panel: Advising and Mentoring PhD Students for Careers Beyond
- Academia: Alumni Experiences
- Plenary Panel: Advising Success Network –– A National Conversation
- Grad Track Panel: A Conversation with the School Ombuds on How They Help Graduate Students and Postdocs
- RC Track Plenary Vice Provosts for Undergraduate Education: Reflections on Advising
- A Conversation with Student-Athletes: Perspectives on Successful Mentoring Practices
- IDEA SESSION (A): Institutional Advising Supports
- Privacy and Practicality: Reimagining FERPA Compliance to Promote Equity
- Career Champions: Building a Campus-Wide Network to Support Students’ Careers
- Academic Support Services for Student-Athletes
- IDEA SESSION (B): Inclusive Mentoring
- Mentorship in a Virtual Environment
- TRIO Community
- Building a Mentoring Program for Students Underrepresented in STEM
- IDEA SESSION (C): Advising and Mentoring During COVID
- Mentor and Mentee Training at the Swanson School of Engineering
- Mental Health Challenges Among University Students: Creating a Culture of Caring & Unprecedented Support
- Pitt Commons: Leveraging Digital Engagement in Mentorship During COVID-19
- IDEA SESSION (D): Graduate Studies Mentoring
- The Results of a Free, Student-Run, Volunteer-Based Medical School Application Advising Service
- Wellness Medical Student Elective Utilizing Dialectical Behavior Therapy to Decrease Burnout & Foster Thriving Careers in Medicine
- Mentoring Quantitative Students on a Social Justice Path
- PeopleSoft/HighPoint Campus Experience (CX) Overview and Best Practices
- RC Track Session: Advising and Academic Advising: Defining Roles and Responsibilities to Best Support Students
- RC Track Session: Fostering Institution-wide Change Through a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) Focused on Advising and Student Success
- RC Track Session: Supporting Faculty Advisors at Research Universities
- Check Your Blind Spots: Mentoring and Advising BIPOC Students
- Fostering Empathy in Social Justice
- Grad Track Plenary: What is the Difference Between Graduate Advising and Mentoring? Insights from a School-Wide Initiative
- Improving and Improvising Interactions with Students
- RC Track Plenary: Tyton Partners Driving Toward a Degree: Leveraging Human and Technological Horsepower to Drive Student Success
- Supporting Student Transition to the University in a Virtual World
- Closing Plenary – Advising Success Story: Reflections with a Student and Her Advising Team
- Grad Track Session: Pitt Personal Wellness Program for Graduate Students
- RC Track Plenary: Doing Academic Advising Well: Findings about Advising Practice at Research Universities
- 2020 Mentoring and Advising Summit - March 5, 2020
Held in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, colleagues across the two campuses explored ways to achieve excellence in education, in a time where it was increasingly important that we grow in our capacity to bring together different ideas, critical perspectives, challenges, and lived experiences.
Keynote Address: dr. becky Martinez, consultant and trainer
Sessions:
- Wellness and Resilience for College and Beyond: An Undergraduate Course to Foster Student Wellness
- Advising Assumptions: Using Coaching in Advising
- Empathy in Mentorship: Achieving Positive Relationships through Pro-Social Psychology
- Getting Creative with Your Student Communication Methods
- Academic Advising and Career Services: A History and Future of Collaboration
- Mentoring Best Practices and Importance in Internship Experiences
- Digital Mentorship: A Case Study
- Effectiveness of Digital Portfolios in Advising, Professional Development, and Program Evaluation
- Plenary Session: Student Success Panel
- Straddling Class in the Academy: A Deeper Dive into the Student, Administration and Faculty Stories
- Using Data from the Ground Up to Improve Advising and Academic Programs
- Success in Diversity: A Conversation about Race
- Academic Coaching: Supporting All Students on a Path to Success
- Outsider Within: Mentoring Graduate Students and Junior Faculty from Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Groups
- Measuring Student Success for Your Service
- Welcome to Probation Station: Getting Students (and Advisors!) on the Right Track toward Success
- Quit Grit: A Model for Building Sustainable Resilience
- FERPA, Families, and Freedom: Leveraging Family Engagement for Student Success
- Developing, Delivering, and Assessing Learning-Centered Academic Advising
- Putting Career Preparation in the Curriculum
- Advising Networks for Improvement
- Creating and Maintaining a DREAM Team
- How International Students Perceive the Quality of Student Support Services
- The Advising Conversation: A Sociolinguistic Approach
- 2019 Mentoring and Advising Summit - March 7, 2019
As we strive to support Pitt’s goal of excellence in education, it is increasingly important that we grow in our capacity to bring together different ideas, critical perspectives, challenges, and ways of life.
In this day-long summit, attendees discussed innovative approaches to expanding and enhancing our existing structures and processes to better facilitate the mentoring and advising experience for students. They focused on specific tools, tactics, and techniques that support students to chart clear goals and direction for the future, develop enduring networks of colleagues and mentors, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation.
Keynote Address: Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Ann E. Cudd, University of Pittsburgh
Sessions:
- Pathways Functionality Overview and Implementation Update
- How Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches Mentor the Development of Large Numbers of Student-Athletes
- Pathways Implementation in the Swanson School of Engineering and School of Nursing
- Digital Black Lit and Composition (DBLAC): Access, Community, and Mentoring
- Personalized Transfer Student Advising: Early Intervention Strategies
- Inclusive Mentoring: Using Social Psychological Interventions to Improve Mentoring and Learning of All Students
- Incorporating Civic Engagement into Advising
- Pitt Commons Alumni Mentoring: Use, Growth, and Success
- “Up Close and Personal” Advising at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown: Restructuring Our Approach to Engage Faculty and Staff in Campus-wide Retention Efforts
- Personalizing Advising: Balancing Skill Sets
- Building a Student-ready Environment for Advising and Mentoring First-Generation Students
- Who? What? Where? Why? Mentoring as Questioning
- Contributions to Student Success in the University Library System: Personalizing the Student Experience
- Onboarding Online: Building Pitt’s Online Orientation Platform
- Understanding Enrollment and Advisement Tools Available to Students in the PeopleSoft Student Information System
- Creating an Inclusive Culture
- Developing a Student Success Maker
- From Microaggression to Microaffirmation: Building a Culture of Positive Support
- Discovering Strengths-Based Academic Advising
- Guiding and Tracking Student Success in Global Engagement through myPittGlobal
Poster Presentations and Reception
- Career Mentoring: From High Touch to High Tech
- Implementing a College Life Coaching Program within the Academic Advising Center—University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
- Personalized, On-demand Mentoring for Graduate Students: Learnings from a Pilot Study
- Faculty-mentored Career Learning and Advising Groups
- Making a Meaningful Impact: Next-Generation Advising
- Mentoring through the Pittsburgh Summer Program in Philosophy of Science
- “It’s Who You Know”: A Hybrid Social Recommender System to Connect Students with Pitt Researchers
- Student Peer Tutoring Program: Benefits to the Tutors and Tutees
- 2018 Mentoring & Advising Summit - April 12, 2018
Pitt’s first undergraduate Mentoring and Advising Summit offered opportunities to network, share ideas, and explore useful tools to help students to succeed in their academic choices, in their careers, and in their lives.
The summit featured a keynote on Gallup trends, round-table discussions, panel insights, and technology demos.
Keynote Speaker: Helen Stubbs, Senior Consultant, Gallup
Helen Stubbs supports efforts to measure and improve the lives of college and university students, alumni, faculty and staff. This research focuses on meaningful measures of success to examine how college can best prepare students for fulfilling careers and a life well lived. Gallup’s research has identified crucial undergraduate experiences that align with student well-being and engagement, as well as long-term “life” well-being and professional outcomes. In her role at Gallup, Ms. Stubbs partners with university clients to improve performance on these measures. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Vermont and earned a master’s degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.Sessions:
- Passion, Purpose, Plan, and Pursue: Meeting Our Students Where They Are
- Advising Outside the Box via Interdepartmental Partnerships: How to Develop Personalized Advising Conversations for Transfer &/or Interdisciplinary Students
- Pitt Mentoring Network: A personalized mentoring and coaching initiative for students
- Interactive Panel: Mentoring Students to Embrace the World
- Student Success Platform
- Networking Reception