Navigating Your Transition - SIUE Springboard 2021

Navigating Your Transition Springboard 2021

You Know Who to Contact

Dr. Scott Belobrajdic Associate Vice Chancellor Enrollment Management 618-650-2043 sbelobr@siue.edu

Kay Weis Administrative Aide 618-650-2298 kweis@siue.edu

Scott’s Credentials ▪ 23 years as a parent ▪ Two-time father of SIUE freshmen/first-year students ▪ 35 years in higher education ▪ Yet to achieve expert status

Enrollment Management

Scott’s Credentials

Enrollment Management

Hannah SIUE Fall 2016

Enrollment Management

Charlie 2020 HS Graduate

Enrollment Management

Charlie SIUE Fall 2020

Enrollment Management

Springboard Takeaways ▪ Contact information ▪ First payment due date: August 13 at 4:30 p.m.

▪ Third party payer siue.edu/bursar/pay-my-bill/third-party.shtml

▪ FERPA siue.edu/policies/3g2.shtml

▪ Academic Advisor

Enrollment Management

Tuition and Fees ▪ 2,400 employees here for students

▪ Infrastructure of a small city Career services, health services, tutoring, supplemental instruction, police, housing, fitness, on campus employment, food bank, fire station, early childhood center, military and veteran support, sexual assault awareness prevention training, center for student diversity and inclusion training, anti-racism training

▪ Financial Assistance ▪ Appeal ▪ Emergencies

▪ 3,461 degrees awarded 2020

Transition for Students and Families Students ▪ Process - not an event ▪ Move toward independence ▪ Make mistakes and take responsibility ▪ New experiences without familiar supports

Parent/Guardian ▪ Provide room to search academically and personally ▪ Encourage student to stay on campus ▪ Don’t step in to fix problems for them

Shape a Changing World

▪ Academics will be rigorous ▪ Social opportunities are numerous

Shape a Changing World

▪ Rules apply to everyone ▪ Read SIUE emails ▪ It does not hurt to ask

Balance Support and Independence “Our goal is for our kids to be intentional about everything

they do --- to reject passivity and mindless consumption and to embrace an ethos of action, of productivity, of meaningful work, of genuinely lifelong learning.”

Ben Sasse

U.S. Senator Nebraska and Oxford Ph.D.

Balance Support and Independence “When you intervene on behalf of your child, your child becomes the victim. You're expressing the message 'You're incapable, you're not sturdy enough to resolve this yourself, you need me to come in and take care of this for you.' You are, in essence, disempowering your child.”

Julie Lythcott-Haimes Dean of Freshmen at Stanford University, Ten Years

Balance Support and Independence “Saying you just want your kid to be happy puts enormous pressure on the child. They feel if they're not happy, they're failing. Periods of unhappiness are ok and our kids need to know that; it's the struggle that makes you who you are.”

Julie Lythcott- Haims

“Join me in doing right by (these) children and leaving the herd of hoverers, by fostering independence, not dependence, and supporting them in being who they are rather than telling them who and what to be.”

Julie Lythcott- Haims

You Know Who to Contact

Dr. Scott Belobrajdic Associate Vice Chancellor Enrollment Management 618-650-2043 sbelobr@siue.edu

Kay Weis Administrative Aide Enrollment Management 618-650-2298 kweis@siue.edu