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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Engineering Faculty, </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I send a few emails about the plans to improve student advising in the college and university’s investment on a software platform called EAB Navigate. Student advising is an area we identified with potential to help us improve undergraduate instruction. Our peer advising center is doing a great job however is not a replacement for faculty advising. As you all know, we do not have staff dedicated to advising in our college and this responsibility is distributed between department chairs and faculty. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The university invested in a software platform called EAB Navigate as advising management software. If we can properly use this software, we can transition from reactive advising (student seeks advice) to proactive advising ( we can detect students who needs advice before they drop out) and improve our advising process. Improving advising is critical for our college at a time we are tasked with closing achievement gaps and improve our programs. I can not emphasize how important faculty participation is and how much we need your support. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Provost’s office scheduled an advising forum on November 20, 2020 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM to discuss student advising and use cases where and how we can use EAB to help our students and reach them out when they need us. Here I am pleading one more time to ask you join this forum and help us reshape the advising process in the college. Our Assistant Dean Theresa Garcia will lead a session during the forum to help us navigate through the software. Currently we only have 4 faculty members (including myself) signed up for the advising forum. Please take a moment to review this request and make an effort to participate (even if for part of the meeting) and provide input to help the college move forward. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Please RSVP here: <a href="https://advising.sdsu.edu/events/rsvp-provost-advising-forum">https://advising.sdsu.edu/events/rsvp-provost-advising-forum</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#a6192e;font-weight:normal">Provost's Academic Advising Forum RSVP</span></h2><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#515151;font-weight:normal">Students Are at Our Core: Improving the Student Experience</span></h3><h4 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#515151;font-weight:normal">Friday, November 20, 2020</span></h4><h5 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#515151">8:30 - 11:00 a.m.</span></h5><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#515151">Zoom</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#515151">: <a href="https://sdsu.zoom.us/j/88151986600" target="_blank"><span style="color:#a6192e">https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/88151986600</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Best regards</p><p class="MsoNormal">Yusuf</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Yusuf Ozturk </p><p class="MsoNormal">Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor</p><p class="MsoNormal">College of Engineering</p><p class="MsoNormal">Electrical and Computer Engineering </p><p class="MsoNormal">Co-Director, Smart Health Institute</p><p class="MsoNormal">San Diego State University </p><p class="MsoNormal">5500 Campanile Drive , San Diego, CA 92182-1309</p><p class="MsoNormal">Phone : (619) 594-4550 </p><p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:yozturk@sdsu.edu"><span style="color:#0563c1">yozturk@sdsu.edu</span></a> </p><p class="MsoNormal">My schedule is available here: <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=eW96dHVya0BzZHN1LmVkdQ"><span style="color:blue">https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=eW96dHVya0BzZHN1LmVkdQ</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>