Ask campus staff and faculty the best part about working at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and a common answer appears: the students.
This week鈥檚 edition of Face to Face With Chancellor May features an interview with two campus leaders 鈥 and 鈥 about their roles in increasing advising opportunities for undergraduate Aggies to equip them for their futures.
Since 2021, Carter has served as executive director of Academic Advising Enrichment, a unit of Undergraduate Education. Its goal is to strengthen the student experience by providing centralized, campus-wide leadership and advocacy for academic advising, since its establishment in 2014. Carter was previously the founding executive director of the Student Affairs Retention Initiatives and the inaugural director of the , or CADSS.
Zarate鈥檚 first experiences working with students was at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis as a student assistant with CADSS in 2016. Working with students through such experiences enabled Zarate to discover her professional purpose: 鈥渉elping other people through education.鈥 She is now the campus global advising and outreach coordinator at the within Global Affairs.
In an open conversation, hear Carter and Zarate describe to Chancellor Gary S. May how their personal journeys through higher education help inform the work they do on campus today.
Carter recalls attending six community colleges before getting accepted into 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Berkeley and floundering; an advisor helped correct his path. His experiences inform his current role and goal of 鈥渟tandardizing the practice鈥 of advising across a decentralized campus like 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis by finding the commons threads and emphasizing a holistic advising approach.
For Zarate, she works with students to create 鈥渁n open-door situation鈥 where they can feel seen and heard. 鈥淏eing able to get to know the student,鈥 Zarate explains, allows her to 鈥渒now how I can help them find an opportunity aligning with their interest.鈥
Stick around for the Chancellor鈥檚 rapid-fire 鈥淗ot Seat鈥 round of questions for some last-minute Halloween costume ideas and the surprising reveal of the missing member of the Jackson 5.
