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<div dir="ltr">Happy Friday Team! Orientation foundation subjects placement information is below for your reference. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Make it a great day! </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Best,</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Nancy G. Rodriguez-Lorta, M.Ed. </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Phone: (520) 621-3616 | Fax: (520) 621-8662</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Website: cals.arizona.edu/students/advising</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">To schedule an appointment call (520) 621-3616</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 8, 2020 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> oac@list.arizona.edu; Adams, Logan - (loganadams)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rodriguez, Karina M - (kmr2); Tina Moore<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [oac] Placement (Math, Second Language, Writing) Orientation Updates
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">Math, Writing, and Second Language placement folks will be providing an
<b>internal FAQ for advisors</b> to consult during orientation. We'll email this out in the next couple weeks!</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">We are hoping we can create and "push" a
<b>placement module to every college's D2L</b>. The module will contain information to help students determine whether they need to meet with us, as well as the instructions on how to receive advising (i.e., Zoom links, times available, etc.)</span></p>
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<p style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">It was indicated at the OAC meeting that we might be able to see the
<b>communications being sent out to students</b>. </span><span style="color:black; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This would be very useful; we hope we can see these soon!</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">Finally, we have heard a proposal to create an
<b>Orientation Slack</b>, where all folks involved with Orientation sessions could message one another (either prior to orientation sessions, or day of). With orientation going digital, we know how important it is that we have an easy and central way to communicate.
Some benefits of Slack:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">Placement folks all use this already in our individual units. We are happy to create our own Slack for orientation
so that advisors/others can message us (unless New Student Orientation team would like to create a centralized one), but we wonder if it might be beneficial to have a more centralized one.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(134,17,6)"><b>We would love to hear your thoughts, questions and feedback! </b></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b></b>Please
let Tina, Karina, and/or me know if you have any ideas/concerns about any of the above.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Erin, Tina, and Karina (Writing, Math, Second Language Placement)</span></p>
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