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OCOTBER 2017

GUARANTEED ADMISSIONS TRANSFER NEWSLETTER

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In This Issue:

TRANSFER STUDENT CAMPUS VISITS

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE LEARNING CENTER

ACADEMIC CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE

TRIO

FAFSA AND UIC’S STUDENT FINANCIAL AID OFFICE

FLAMES SPORTS SCHEDULE

EVENTS AT UIC

FOOD BANK

FIND US ON

SOCIAL MEDIA!

Patricia will be available for appointments on the following dates:

Tuesday, October 3 —10:00am –4:00pm

Thursday, October 19—10:00am– 4:00pm

Monday, October 23—10:00am-4:00pm

Friday, October 27—10:00am-4:00pm

October visits:

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at Olive-Harvey College— Individual Appointments 10:00am-4:00pm

Thursday, October 5, 2017 at Wilbur Wright College— UIC Transfer Session 2:00pm-3:30pm

Monday, October 9, 2017 at Harold Washington— Transfer Fair 10:00am-1:00pm

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at Kennedy-King— Transfer Fair 10:00am-1:00pm

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at Malcolm X— Transfer Fair 10:00am-1:00pm

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at Truman College— Star Scholar Event 12:30pm-2:00pm

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at Wilbur Wright College— Transfer Fair 10:00am-1:00pm

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at Daley College— Transfer Fair 10:00am-1:00pm

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at Truman College— Transfer Fair 11:30am-2:30pm

Thursday, October 26, 2017 at Olive-Harvey College— Transfer Fair 11:00am-2:00pm

If you would like to schedule an appointment, contact Patricia

or click on the “Schedule An Appointment” above.

Patricia Francey

Assistant Director

UIC Transfer Assistance Center

Email: gat@uic.edu

Phone: 312-413-9714

“Problems are not

stop signs, they

are guidelines.”

-Robert H. Schuller

OCTOBER 2017

Transfer Student Campus Visits

UIC Admissions offers prospective transfer students a specialized visit on select days during the week.

Transfer visits are approximately two hours and begin with an admissions presentation providing an overview of campus, admissions information, and insight into the transfer process. The presentation is followed by a student-led tour of campus and residence hall. The counselor leading the session is able to clarify questions for individuals after the presentation, or after the tour.

Transfer visit dates available for the month of October are as follows:

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 9:00PM (UIC Visitors Center)

Friday, October 6, 2017 at 2:00PM (UIC Visitors Center)

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 9:00AM (UIC Visitors Center)

Friday, October 13, 2017 at 2:00PM (UIC Visitors Center)

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 9:00AM (UIC Visitors Center)

Friday, October 20, 2017 at 2:00PM (UIC Visitors Center)

Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 11:00AM (UIC Visitors Center)

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 9:00AM (UIC Visitors Center)

To schedule a visit, click on the date that works best for you. Then, complete and submit the form provided.

Source: UIC Admissions Website

Language and Culture Learning Center The Sandi Port Errant Language and Culture Learning Center works to enhance teaching, literature, language and cul-tural learning in UIC’s School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics. The School’s focus on interdisciplinarity fosters a culture of collaborative research between faculty and students and creates a vital community of scholars who share insights across disciplinary borders and cultivate connections with the broader Chicago community.

The Language and Culture Learning Center helps enrich the UIC community’s experience with foreign languages, litera-tures, and cultures by hosting culture-focused events such as conversation hours, film series, and language focused cultural events. All events are free and open to the public. Events take place in Grant Hall 308, unless noted otherwise.

Select a category below for more information!

Source: LCLC UIC

OCTOBER 2017

Academic Center for Excellence (ACE)

The Academic Center for Excellence provides learning support services to enable all UC students to accomplish their academic goals by developing critical thinking skills and learning strategies that will enhance their academic success.

ACE offers courses, workshops, and individual academic coaching designed to help students achieve success.

ACE students exchange ideas in a diverse community of learners, hone their academic skills, and develop practices that enhance their academic and personal development at UIC.

ACE Learning Support Services

Academic Skills Program (ASP) Courses Academic Probations Support

ASP courses are designed to help students meet the A program designed to help students on academic reading, writing, study, and learning demands at UIC. probation to fulfill their educational goals.

Individual Academic Coaching Strategic Learning Workshop(s)

ACE Instructors will work with students on a one-on-one ACE Instructors provide a number of useful workshops, basis to address academic concerns and aid students in including customized on-site workshops. planning a course of action.

Source: UIC Academic Center for Excellence

TRiO The goal of TRiO is to assist students reach their goal through overcoming academic and financial barriers to higher education.

The TRIO Upward Bound (UB) and Student Support Services (SSS) Programs are two of eight TRIO Programs that are federally funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The programs seek to increase the rate of students who com-plete secondary school and enroll in and graduate from a postsecondary institution. The Upward Bound Program at UIC serves 113 students from target high schools. Its participants are from low-income families and/or first genera-tion (neither parent has obtained a bachelor’s degree) students.

The Student Support Services Program serves 160 students who are enrolled at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Over 1300 of our Student Support Services participants have graduated with bachelor degrees from UIC. The program serves students from low-income families and/or students who are first generation (neither parent has ob-tained a bachelor’s degree) and students with disabilities.

Want to know if you’re eligible for the SSS program? Click below to discover more.

Source: UIC TRiO

OCTOBER 2017

The Office of Student Financial Aid

The Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) administers an array of federal, state and institutional programs. If you are in need of financial assistance, you are highly encouraged to complete the necessary paperwork by the appropriate deadlines. The OSFA website is designed to provide students with all the information they may need about types and sources of financial aid, deadlines, how to contact staff, links to other

FAFSA

The Aid Process

FAFSA: In order to be awarded financial aid at UIC, you must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) every year. The FAFSA will be available on October 1st each year— UIC’s priority filing deadline is December 1st.

PIN/FSA ID: You and your parent, if applicable, must have a Federal Student Aid Personal Identification Number (PIN) in order to be able to sign your electronic FAFSA. Students and a parent, if applicable, must have a Federal Student Aid ID (login) to sign the electronic FAFSA. You can get your PIN/FSA ID here.

UIC’s School Code: 001776 You must list UIC’s school code on their FAFSA. Otherwise, UIC will not receive your FAFSA information and cannot award you financial aid. UIC’s school code is 001776.

Student Status: Students are considered dependent or independent based on the information provided on the FAFSA. Most undergraduate students are considered dependent. All graduate and professional students are considered independent. Dependent students must report parental income information on their FAFSA. Dependency is not a status of choice. Dependency status for financial aid is not based on whether or not: a student lives with a parent, a student is financially self-supportive, or parents claim a student as a dependent on their taxes.

Student Aid Report (SAR): After receiving your FAFSA, the federal processor will send you a Student Aid Report (SAR) electroni-cally (unless you filled a paper FAFSA). The SAR lists all the information you submitted on the FAFSA and explains the EFC calculated from that information. Review the SAR for accuracy. To make any corrections, log on to the FAFSA website.

Returning User?

Source: UIC OSFA

Women’s Sports 2017-2018

Basketball Cross Country/ Track & Field Golf

Gymnastics Soccer Softball

Swimming & Diving Tennis Volleyball

Source: UIC Flames

Sport Schedule

OCTOBER 2017

Men’s Sports 2016-2017

Basketball Cross Country/ Track & Field Baseball

Gymnastics Soccer Tennis

Swimming & Diving

Source: UIC Flames

Sport Schedule

OCTOBER 2017

10/02/2017— Study Abroad First Step Advising

First Step advising sessions are available for all study abroad applicants as a starting point for the application process. A 20 minute First Step PowerPoint presentation will review how to select the best program for your needs, and review the

application, advising, course approval and registration processes. For more information, please visit our website.

2:00pm-2:30pm, 502 UH University Hall

10/04/2017— UIC Center for Global Health Monthly Network Meeting

Our speaker will be School of Public Health Visiting Scholar Dr. Dani Filc, Ben-Gurion Unviversity, presenting "Challenges for equal access to health care in a universal health care system: the case of Israel"

This lecture will be held in the 1st floor auditorium in the Molecular Biology Research Building, 900 S Ashland, please en-ter building through doors on Marshfield side.

Lunch will be served.

12:00pm-1:30pm, 1st Floor Auditorium MBRB Molecular Biology Research Building

10/04/2017— Zona Abierta: Whose River?

Whose River? Culture, Condos, and Controversy along Chicago's Waterway Presented by the UIC Latino Cultural Center and The Freshwater Lab.

The City of Chicago, together with planning organizations and architects, has launched The Great Rivers Chicago plan. What do these plans mean for the city? What might they hold for neighborhood residents? Join us to hear leading voices

explain the plans and discuss the Chicago River's history, current state, and future possibilities.

3:00pm-5:00pm, Latino Cultural Center—Lecture Center B2

10/09/17— Bachelor of Arts in Public Health Information Session

Are you interested in exploring an exciting and interdisciplinary field that aims to improve health at the community level? If so, the Bachelor of Arts in Public Health may be right for you! Please come to an information session to learn more

about our program and get your questions answered. RSVP for these sessions (appreciated but not required).

2:00pm-3:00pm, 215 LH Lincoln Hall

10/10/17— Seminar– Daryl Bosco, Ph.D.

The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago welcomes: DARYL BOSCO, PH.D. Associate Professor of the Department of Neurology (University of Massachusetts Medical Center) who will

present: “Stressed to death: impaired stress response in neurodegenerative disease”.

1:30pm-2:30pm, 1020– Moss Auditorium CMRB College of Medicine Research Building

10/11/17— Inaugural Dr. Tapas Das Gupta CANCER CENTER SYMPOSIUM

On behalf of Dr. Winn and the University of Illinois Cancer Center we invite you to join us at our first inaugural address RSVP here!

Remarks by UI Cancer Center Director, Dr. Robert Winn Head of the UIC Dept. of Surgery, Dr. Enrico Benedetti

Tapas Das Gupta, MD

9:00am-3:00pm, Thompson Rooms, 2nd Floor SCW Student Center West

Source: UIC Office of the Registrar

UIC Events

OCTOBER 2017

10/11/17— Sociology Colloquium: “A Procedural Theory of Culture” with Omar Lizardo

The Sociology Department hosts its second colloquium of the semester, "A Procedural Theory of Culture," with Omar Lizardo, Notre Dame University.

12:00pm-1:30pm, 4105 BSB Behavioral Sciences Building

10/14/17— Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on the Environment

Join us as we hear from candidates for Illinois Governor about our environmental challenges. What are their plans to act on climate change? Conserve Illinois' wild places? Protect our water supply? As Trump tries to take America

backward, will Illinois step up to lead on the environment? Register here!

11:00am-12:30pm, Room 250 SES Science and Engineering South

10/16/17— Roderick Ferguson Lecture: “The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora”

Professor Roderick Ferguson, UIC African-American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies Departments, delivers a lecture as 2017-2018 Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities. A reception will follow.

4:00pm-6:00pm, Lower Level SH Stevenson Hall

10/18/17— Ajay Skaria Lecture: “Between Willing and Nonwilling Freedom: Thinking Religion with Gandhi”

Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, will present a talk to the Empire and Modernity Working Group. A noted Subal-tern studies scholar, he most recently published "Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance."

12:00pm-2:00pm, Lower Level SH Stevenson Hall

10/24/17— Flash Conference: The Monument Debate

Speakers: Natasha Barnes, English Lisa Yun Lee, Art History

Margarita Saona, Hispanic Studies Please join us for a lively discussion of Confederate Monuments. This is the first in a series of "Flash Conferences,"

quickly organized discussions of current events from a humanities perspective (including theory, history and cultural context).

12:00pm-1:30pm, Lower Level SH Stevenson Hall

10/30/17— Halloween Dance Party

Join us for a Halloween Dance Party! Dance to your favorite Halloween hits including The Thriller! Free for UIC Stu-dents and Campus Recreation Members.

5:00pm-6:00pm, Multipurpose Suite SRF Student Recreation Members

Source: UIC Office of the Registrar

UIC Events

OCTOBER 2017

The UIC Wellness Center and the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), have launched a service called the Pop-Up Pantry which is a food pantry for registered UIC students. The Pop-Up Pantry offers

canned goods and non-perishable food items. The resource is free for students, and intended to help any student who is experiencing a decreased access to food due to budgetary constraints.

How can you help? Donations are still accepted and can be dropped off at one of the Pop-Up Pantry collection bins: • Dean of Students Office (3030 Student Services Building) • Undergraduate Student Success Center (111 Stevenson Hall) • African American Academic Network (2800 Student Services Building) • UIC Wellness Center (238 Student Center East)

- Food Donation Guidelines -

Products must be: • In cans, cartons, or bags • Non-perishable (requires no refrigeration or freezing) • In the original container with the original product label • Within two weeks of the “Best Buy,” or Best If Used by dates • Free of damage, stains, moisture, etc. • We will not accept items in glass containers for safety reasons. • Items donated must be unopened.

Items most needed: • Canned Fish/Canned Meats • Canned Soup or Soup Packets • Canned Vegetables • Canned Beans • Cereal /Granola Bars/Oatmeal • Instant meal in a cup (ex. mac & cheese) • Rice / Pasta • Peanut Butter/Jelly • Instant Coffee/Tea • Powdered Milk • Baby Food

Source: Pop-up pantry

Food Bank

OCTOBER 2017

GAT Students!

We are excited to announce that the UIC GAT Program’s Website is now up and running. If you have any questions regarding the pro-gram or need help to find your GAT advisor, visit the website here.

Find Us Online!!

OCTOBER 2017

UIC GAT Website!

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