UIC Student Affairs Annual Report FY 2022

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2022 ANNUAL REPORT
students to be able to facilitate dialogic workshops to their
peers in collaboration with the Office of Global Engagement
for a $750 stipend and the Dialogue Fellows Program
trained 39 faculty and staff in dialogic techniques and receive
continuing education support.
Diversity & Intergroup Dialogue within the Office of the
Dean of Students sustained an intensive marketing effort
of the Implicit Bias tool, including 7 campus-wide trainings,
coverage in UIC Today, and targeted partnerships with entities
like the Counseling Center. Approximately 350 students,
faculty, and staff participated in the trainings and post-training
survey results indicate that the information shared was
well-received. When asked to rate the overall quality of the
workshop, 96.9% of respondents indicated that the training
was somewhat or very high quality, with 65.6% rating it very
high quality.
New Student and Family Programs returned to fully inperson
orientation for Summer 2022 (after 2 years of virtual
orientation), which included some major adjustments to the
orientation schedule related to Academic Advising, large group
sessions, overnight experience, and location changes of the
program.
Student Leadership and Civic Engagement (SLCE) with the
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs launched an
intensive pilot sophomore experience course that combines
the resources of UIC Student Engagement, Career Services,
UIC CUPPA Alumni association and others to design and
deliver a course that will strengthen the life, career, and
leadership skills of CUPPA students. The SLCE Director and
the CUPPA Sophomore Leadership Class instructor took 11
students to Detroit, MI for a service-learning trip March 31-April
3, 2022.
Student Veterans Affairs sought to increase broad
representation of veteran students, faculty, and staff to
promote diversity and increase awareness of the contribution
of veterans to UIC’s community. To achieve this goal, one
student veteran participated in the Creative and Digital
Services photo series that celebrates graduating students,
and 3 VA Work Study students were featured in the fall Friday
Features within the Stars and Stripes newsletter found on
the Student Veteran Affairs website. Additionally, a faculty
member was featured in a research project and a studentrun
podcast program was promoted to raise the voices and
experiences of veteran students. In the spring, two additional
VA work study students were featured as well as two veteran