#student services

Hey friends!

I know a fair amount of us are all still in school in some capacity (college, grad school, tech school, or even teaching or in student services) and finals are approaching. Since I work in disability services at RIC and run our Instagram page, I compiled some helpful tips I wanted to pass along.

#VoicesFromTheStacks

The Philip G. Hubbard Papers (RG99.0248) document the career of a legendary educator and administrator of the University of Iowa. Born in Macon, Missouri in 1921, Hubbard’s family moved to the Des Moines area so Philip and his siblings could attend integrated schools. Following high school graduation in 1939 and having worked as a shoe shiner to save money for school, he pursued his undergraduate degree at the University of Iowa. During 1943—his third year of classes—Hubbard enlisted in the Army Reserves. Earning an army certification in electrical engineering and excelling in officer’s training, Francis M. Dawson, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa arranged for Hubbard’s discharge from the service to conduct research at Iowa.  

Hubbard continued with his studies and graduated with honors in 1947 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He became the first black faculty member on campus, appointed as a research engineer. He earned two more degrees from the University: an M.A. in mechanics and hydraulics in 1949 and a doctorate in engineering in 1954. Hubbard taught mechanics and hydraulics from 1954 to 1966, and through his Hubbard Instrument Company, worked with the military and companies such as GE and GM.  

A proponent for civil rights and equality, Hubbard was an advocate for fair housing legislation in Iowa City, particularly against housing discrimination. In 1966, Hubbard became the Dean of Academic Affairs and was an influential figure during anti-war protests that rocked the Iowa campus in the 1960s and 70s. In 1971, he became the Vice President of Student Services and the first black VP of a Big Ten institution.

His papers at the University of Iowa reflect the dynamic career of an academic and administrator as well as snapshots of his life as an activist in civil rights, veteran, alumni, and family man. Hubbard and his wife Wynonna married in 1943 and raised five children. Philip Hubbard wrote an autobiography My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa’s first African-American Professor, available in our stacks in the Englander and Iowa Authors Collections. 

--Laura

I met with my advisor at SAS today. Our appointment was only supposed to be 30 minutes but it was nearly an hour. We mostly talked about my first full week of uni.She asked about my psychiatrist appointment and how that went. She asked me the doctor’s name and I told her that I had Dr. K. She asked if it was a good connection and I said it was too early to tell. She also asked me how therapy was going but I don’t remember what I said or if I said anything at all.

My advisor asked me how I was concentrating and focusing and stuff and I said I couldn’t. She asked me about assignments and I  told her I completed a couple already. She said she was “incredibly proud” and “impressed” because she said I’m not doing well and still managed to complete the assignments. I told her that they didn’t require much thought because I already knew the answers to the assignments. 

She said she noticed I dropped down to 4 courses and that she thought it a good idea to drop down to 3. I told her I wasn’t willing to do that and she said that “dropping down to 3 is always an option.” Because of my troubles with concentration and such, she said she would refer me to the SAS note-taking service. It’s where volunteer note-takers take notes of lectures and such and they upload them into the SAS website for select students to access. My advisor also wants me to set up a “peer helper” I think she said it was called. She explained it as a person in my program that is an upper-year student. She had a specific girl in mind for me to meet with to help me with my first year at uni. She wanted the peer helper to help me organize my assignments into a calendar so it would be easier for me to follow. She said it would also give me someone to talk to if I had any questions and such. I was coming to the conclusion that the “peer helper” program is a very rare service from by the way she made it sound.

My advisor wants to meet with me “frequently.” She said she’d like to meet with me next week but I can’t remember the reason why. She said if I ever need to contact her, that I can email her and she’ll try to get back to me as soon as possible. She also said that I can use her drop in hours if I need to see her sooner or need someone to talk to. I’ve forgotten her drop in ours though so that’s not overly helpful. 

My SAS advisor said she could tell my concentration and functioning was bad because I had to ask her to repeat herself a couple times because I was focused and drifting off at something else. I told her I was isolating and not socializing and she said something about “paranoid/persecutory thoughts.” I was taken aback because I don’t have those but she was definitely alluding that I did.. I didn’t argue with her though because I don’t want to anger her.

I meet with her next week. I have 4 appointments next week. Someone save me!

Appointments:

Therapy Appointment on Monday, September 24, 2018 at 9:00 am

SAS Advisor Meeting on Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 at 3:30pm

START- Gillian on Thursday, September 27th, 2018 at 12pm

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Communication and expression: Students learn new rhetorical strategies and use their First Amendment rights to create and publish La Voz News, social media (@lavozdeanza) and videos.

Information literacy: Students study and practice media literacy.

Physical/mental wellness and personal responsibility: Students work cooperatively under deadline situations and take on leadership roles in a structured environment that prepares them for many media workplaces.

Civic capacity for global, cultural, social and environmental justice: Students learn to: a) tell stories that show the diversity of De Anza College and the world, b) interpret cultural and environmental issues and c) present their ideas clearly.

Hi, I'm Adelaide, peer mentor! Pinnochio directed me your question after it glitched his algorithm by requiring ""facts""

Like a lot of things in the arcane world the answer is yes and no— yes, the incoming class is certainly bigger than one person! It's exact size isn't reported until the end of the first quarter, though, because of uh. The deaths.

The reason we do the 1 on 1 orientation sessions with teachers that you've been experiencing is that we try to have a mentorship program here at the university— our student to staff ratio is about one to two. And yes, you read that correctly. We have a lot of teachers who just come in from the grand academy to teach one off classes here, but we also have research staff that don't teach classes, and doctors, and so on. So. We have the staff. Forging personal bonds helps survival odds! I hope your mentor has been kind and supportive, whoever it was you're speaking to.