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International Affairs Program Advising
To make an appointment with the IAFS advisors,
please go to the advising
web site.
To calculate your major GPA, see the IAFS
GPA worksheet.
Wondering if IAFS is the right major for you?
Please read the following document - Fulfilling
IAFS Requirements: Things to Consider (pdf).
Major declaration meetings will resume the first week
of Fall classes. In the meantime, please review information
about the International Affairs Program, including IAFS
major requirements, here on our website.
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Janice Oldroyd - CLUB 215
To see Janice Oldroyd's advising
syllabus (pdf), click here.
Advisees may make appointments by going to http://aac.colorado.edu.
Welcome back to Boulder and CU! I hope your summer was
restful, fun, and restorative. I've been busy all summer
with new students, both first year students and transfer
students, coming in for their orientation sessions. Because
there is a lot going on next week (August 17-21) and I won't
be available to see any of you individually, I am taking
this opportunity to pass along some helpful information
about some changes taking place since I last connected with
you. I also want to pass along some information about my
schedule the first two weeks of classes.
MY AVAILABILITY
I will have extended walk-ins the first week and a half
of classes. Please pay attention to these times:
Monday Aug 24th 9-12
Tuesday Aug. 25th 1-2:30
Wednesday, Aug 26th 9-12
Thursday Aug. 27th 1-2:30
Friday Aug. 28th - 9-12
Monday Aug 31st - 9-12
Tuesday Sept 1st - 9-11
Wednesday Sept 2nd - 1-2:30
These walk-ins are for schedule adjustment issues. I will
have to send you away if you come in for a grad packet,
study abroad, internships, etc, etc. There are many students
who will need my help with their schedules, so that is the
first priority for the first week and a half.
I will have a few appointments each day so if you need
something other than schedule adjustment, you can sign up
for one of those.
My regular walk-in times will begin the week of Labor Day.
Check my advising syllabus on the new IAFS website for times.
http://iafs.colorado.edu/Files/Advisor_syllabus_JO.pdf
NEW IAFS WEBSITE
The IAFS program has a fabulous new website! The link to
it is http://iafs.colorado.edu/ even easier to remember
than the old one. Please spend some time looking it over.
Katherine Rousseau and Jen Vaughan, webmasters extraodinaire,
have spent the better part of their summer working on this
new website. Enjoy it, learn to use it, add to it where
you can (photos perhaps?) You can also join our list on
Twitter and get tweets on the important upcoming events.
There is a stellar list of FAQs (thanks to David Bailey)
under the advising tab. Please look there first for answers
to questions you might e-mail me about. If you ask me something
that exists on the website, I'll just send back the link
to the website. I plan to post my "Friday Updates"
to the website instead of sending them as e-mails, so get
used to looking for updates there.
NEW DARS DEGREE AUDIT
>From the "Courses" link on CUConnect (click
"Courses" tab and follow the instruction to find
DARS), you can see your new degree audit. Check it out and
use it as your primary tool to track your progress through
MAPS and CORE, overall and upper division credit hours needed,
and related degree requirements. For those familiar with
the "old" system, this new one will take some
time to read and comprehend, but it is SO MUCH BETTER than
the old one!
Please note that this audit is still a work-in-progress.
Not all major audits are currently completed, including
IAFS. (Some of you double-majors may find your other major
IS up and running on the system.) As such, until the IAFS
major audit is added, your major classes for now will typically
appear under "electives" on DARS, and you will
want to continue tracking progress in the major "on
paper." Remember that a checklist of requirements is
available on iafs.colorado.edu. (Recurrent theme here: The
IAFS website has lots of information on it).
GRADUATION PACKETS
If you plan to graduate this coming academic year, you need
to submit a grad packet to the advising office. In order
to get the packet, you need to make an appointment with
every advisor you have.majors and minors. Once you have
collected all of the paperwork from the advisors, then you
can turn in the application. If you are graduating in Dec
09, you need to get in ASAP. If you are graduating in May
or August 10, you can wait a bit but you still want to get
in by late October (for May) and early in the spring (for
August).
SPRING STUDY ABROAD
Once you have been accepted for a spring study abroad program,
you will want to make an appointment to come see me to get
courses evaluated for the major. You have until Dec. 1st
to do this. You need to provide the major evaluation form
(available on the study abroad website) and the course descriptions
of the courses you want me to evaluate. You can pull the
course descriptions up on your laptop if you wish - it would
save some paper if you do it that way.
NEW STUDENT MEETINGS
For those of you who went through orientation this summer,
there is a mandatory meeting you will attend on the 21st,
next Friday. You can choose 9:00 or 2:30. The meeting will
be in U CLUB, Room 4. I will be discussing IAFS major requirements,
the ins and outs of drop/add and waitilists and important
deadlines.
Thanks for reading. Looking forward to seeing you in my
office soon.
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David Bailey - CLUB 203
Appointments should be made through the website aac.colorado.edu,
and may be scheduled up to two weeks in advance.
MY AVAILABILITY:
For the first two weeks of class--August 24 to September
4--I will do WALK-INS ONLY M-F 9AM-noon, and TR 1-2:30PM.
At times a line will develop outside my office door: when
this occurs, I will ask people to focus only on Fall registration
adjustment issues, to ensure that all such urgent questions
and issues can be adequately addressed.
My sincere apologies that, due to the last Freshman and
Transfer Orientation sessions, verifying August graduates,
and the Friday new student meetings, my office availability
for continuing students is essentially non-existent the
week before classes start...however, as always I am reading
e-mail constantly!
Note that CU will be closed on Labor Day Monday, September
7.
Starting September 8th, I will be available: by appointment
Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday 9AM to noon; and by walk-ins
only Tuesdays 9AM to noon and 1-2:30PM, Thursdays 1-2:30PM,
and Fridays 9AM-noon. Appointments must be made through
the website http://aac.colorado.edu, and can be made up
to two weeks in advance.
If you come by during appointment hours and no one is with
me, you may be able to just "walk in," but keep
in mind that I may have an appt. arriving shortly thereafter,
or other such commitments.
If you come by during walk-in hours and there's a long
line waiting for me, feel free to try me later or make a
future appointment, as you so desire.
If you need to cancel or reschedule an appt., please do
so through the website and with as much advance notice as
possible. Failure to do so takes valuable appointment opportunities
away from other students who wish to see me, and may jeopardize
your ability to schedule an appt. with me in the future.
NEW AND IMPROVED IAFS WEBSITE!
Check it out at http://iafs.colorado.edu, the result of
significant time and effort by Katherine Rousseau and Jenifer
Vaughan in our IAFS front office! Everything that was on
the "old" site is here, plus SO MUCH MORE! You
really should bookmark/favorite it, and visit frequently:
please click across the various links to familiarize yourself
with the tremendous resources available here!
NEW DEGREE (DARS) AUDIT
From the "Courses" link on CUConnect, you can
see your new degree audit, called DARS: definitely check
it out and use it as your primary tool to track your progress
through MAPS and CORE, overall and upper division credit
hours needed, and related degree requirements. For those
familiar with the "old" system, trust me: this
new one will take some time to read and comprehend, but
it is SO MUCH BETTER than SIS!
Please note that this audit is still a work-in-progress:
not all major audits are currently completed, including
IAFS. (Some of you double-majorers may find your other major
IS up and running on the system.) As such, until the IAFS
major audit is added, your major classes for now will typically
appear under "electives" on DARS, and you will
want to continue tracking progress in the major "on
paper." Remember that a checklist of requirements is
available on iafs.colorado.edu.
THE RISING NUMBERS OF IAFS STUDENTS, AND ITS IMPACT ON
ACADEMIC ADVISING
We are very pleased with the growing popularity and success
of our program, faculty, and support staff...all made possible
by YOU ALL! As many of you know, we are crossing the 1000-student
mark at a healthy pace; with only two IAFS academic advisors,
it means that advisee caseloads are climbing beyond 500.
Now more than ever it is important for you to be familiar
with the resources available to you, be proactive in seeking
out information, address problems in timely manner, come
well-prepared for advising meetings, and the like.
Along these lines, I am asking all of you to PLEASE visit
http://iafs.colorado.edu/index.php/acad-advising/bailey
and AT LEAST read the sections "MY EXPECTATIONS REGARDING
YOU" and "YOUR EXPECTATIONS REGARDING ME."
There is additional info there about who I am and how I
approach academic advising, my office hours, and related
advising stuff.
Especially now that we have both an FAQ section and an
excellent search function on the website, I expect that
it will be your first "go-to place" when questions
arise related to IAFS requirements, course offerings, internships,
Honors, etc.
PLANNING TO GRADUATE THIS ACADEMIC YEAR?
If you are planning to graduate in December 2009, May 2010,
or August 2010 and have not already done so, you will want
to make an appt. to get a graduation packet and Statement
of Major Status from me. December 2009 graduates should
do this early in Fall; May and August 2010 grads should
do so before or around Spring 2010 registration time (starting
mid/late October and early November).
Have fun, be good, and stay in touch...remember that I'm
here to help where I can!
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