[Advising] Updates from UHPO

Hi All, The UHPO crew will be out at a conference starting tomorrow and will return on Monday. Just a couple of updates I wanted to send out before we go. 1. Next week on Thursday, February 12th, we will be having a Nursing Information Session for students who identify as "Pre-Nursing." I have attached some quarter-page flyers. If you don't mind handing them out to your students, we would be sincerely appreciative. Why would a student attend this session instead of a walk-in? First, no wait. Plus, we are going to talk to them about their competitiveness, their grade point averages and the requirements to apply to nursing schools. So, please help funnel people to this session. 2. Health Professions Day is February 26th. I will send out the schedule of the panels soon. Please encourage your Health Professions students to attend. Of course, we would love for you to come to see what the HP schools have to say as well. Until then, I have attached a quarter-page flyer for you to hand out to students as you see fit. 3. 45 Hour Holds: Nursing, Dental Hygiene and Respiratory Care students can come to UHPO to have their 45H hold assessed. If a student is viable for their program of choice, we will REMOVE the hold. If the student is not viable, we will POST-DATE the hold to May 15, 2015 and tell the students that they need to go back your centers at a later date for their "parallel plan" or "backup plan" conversation and degree plan. We will also be discussing "backup plans" with these students before sending them to see you all. I know that most centers are full with appointments right now so we will remind students that since their holds have been removed, if they don't have questions about major coursework, they can hold off on seeing you until later in the semester. Thank you so much for referring your students to us. It really helps us to get in contact with as many pre-HP students as possible. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Roxanna Roxanna M. Nelson, Ph.D. Assistant Director, University Health Professions Office The University of Texas at San Antonio Multidisciplinary Studies (M.S.) Building 3.02.10 Phone: (210) 458-5185 Fax: (210) 458-6637 This e-mail message is intended only for the personal use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review, copy or distribute this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the original message.