TRIO/Student Support Services said goodbye to Kristin O'Connell and wishes her well as she returns to SERC. We've completed our mandatory class workshops and are excited for our End-of-Term Celebration on Thursday, November 16th!
Do you know a student who's realizing they need to add new learning strategies to their repertoire to succeed at Carleton? Please tell them about Steve Schauz, the Academic Support Center’s academic skills coach. Students can drop in or make an appointment. Learn more on the ASC website.
October was an exciting month for the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) as we hosted a number of events that centered on issues of identity. We would like to thank everyone who attended these events and give special thanks to our panelists who shared their experiences navigating identity during our Beyond Single Stories Panel, Student Activities, Chaplain's Office, ACE and many others. We are also gearing up for winter term and are beginning preparations for both Rainbow Retreat and Stripped.
Residential Life has had a great fall term. We are currently preparing for closing in a couple of weeks and coordinating winter term and winter break housing for students. For winter term, we will have approximately 100 students leaving campus and 170 students returning to campus. We are currently looking at additional options for overflow housing should we need them.
The Office of Health Promotion is actively recruiting athletic teams and other groups that socialize together to participate in a couple of different activities: 1. CUES - a way to analyze and discuss beliefs related to alcohol; and 2. our sleep study - encouraging social groups to set healthy sleep goals together. Contact us to get involved!
The Student Activities Office kept busy working with student groups in planning events. The Student Activities Programming Board (SAPB) hosted Real Talk events in collaboration with the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC), a bus trip to ValleyScare, and Halloween Hauntcert dance and concert. In addition, we participated in the Halloween office decorating contest. The office was transformed into the Spooky Activities Office and we won the spookiest office award.
Oct. 2nd was the Career Center’s Externship Program application deadline. A total of 1052 applications were submitted/received from 445 unique students for December externships (students had the option of applying up to three different externships). Externship hosts were in charge of the selection process which wrapped up at the end of October. Career Center staff are busy assisting the externs with looking for housing, applying for financial travel assistance, and completing the required forms. Students who are not completing an externship during winter break are encouraged to connect with the Career Center to discuss alternative, meaningful ways to progress their career development during the month of December.
Student Health and Counseling (SHAC)'s Student Flu Vaccine Clinic on October 24-25 in Great Hall was a tremendous success with over 400 shots administered during the 2-day event. Basically, we gave out more than 5 shots every 6 minutes… for 8 hours straight. That’s almost 22% of students on campus this term! Also this Fall, SHAC has increased its Group Counseling Options as well as launching a new BioFeedback pilot program, continuing to offer "Time To Meditate" sessions, and more! Be sure to check out our Fall Term newsletter at go.carleton.edu/shac for more info.