College of Agricultural Sciences Student Success

Uh, where you're from up and what your major will be. That will just kind of help me understand a little bit more about you, but I'll let you know a little bit about me. I'm Susan Brown. I'm the recruitment coordinator for the College of Agricultural Sciences, so I work with you all to make sure that you find the best fit for you. I originally I'm from a town outside of Milwaukee, WI, but came to CSU as a student in 2014 to study both zoology and Wildlife Biology.

A man, then, while I was at CSU, I worked in the office of admissions as a tour guide and then as a student, a student coordinator in that office. So I worked to help that team with some different initiatives. And then I moved back to Wisconsin for a year and worked in outdoor education. So if any of y'all like canoeing or hiking doing that kind of stuff, I did that for a year in Wisconsin helping at a summer camp, coordinate all of their canoeing, backpacking and kayaking trips.

Uh, out of Berlin, WI and then I came back to work for CSU because I love it so much and I really missed the community that was here. And now I work for the College of Agricultural Sciences. So if you have questions for me today, I'll do my best to answer them.

If I don't have an answer right away, I will definitely make sure that I get an answer to um, through email or through setting up a follow up phone call with myself afterwards, just so that we can make sure that all of your questions get answered today. I don't have any slides for this presentation just because we're just going to kind of chat and see what you all want to know and I'll let you know just some more details about college bag Cultural Sciences.

Uh, let's see we have some North Carolina, Wyoming, Chicago, Equine Science, Loveland, an egg Ed. Nice, Minnesota Animal Science equine science, great from Colorado landscape architecture. That's amazing. Awesome. So yeah, y'all seem like you're in the right place. Thanks for answering my question.

Awesome so I just also want to know, uh, so y'all are admitted. How many of you if you want to put into the chat, whether you've decided that you're definitely coming, put down a deposit already, or if you are still making that decision, go ahead and put that in the chat if you feel comfortable doing so, I can leave those out of the public chat, so just I'll be able to see them and that will kind of help me understand some other resources that we should go over, but feel free to put that in the chat.

Awesome and will just kind of get started. I'm going to kind of go over some of these resources and we will kind of chat as questions come in, so I wanted to do this web and are just so that you all know what resources are once you're here. So coming to CSU, you've probably interacted with maybe myself or you've interacted with an admissions counselor and admissions, or maybe someone from a Department or.

Maybe someone that you know, uh, who went to CSU? So you probably had some interaction with somebody that helped you either apply or think about getting here. Or maybe you did that totally on your own and that's OK too, but once you get to CSU we have a ton of resources for you within the college. So I sit on the student success team. It's a team of. There will be five of us this coming fall, so some of our members we have two associate Deans that sit on our student success team. One of them is Matt Camper.

He works on teaching practices and making sure that classrooms are inclusive, so he's absolutely wonderful. He make sure that our classrooms are accessible to all different learning types that we have. The right audio visual equipment in all of our classrooms to accommodate for all of our students needs to make sure that the class content is inclusive and make sure that our professors are able to provide everything that they need to for our students.

So he really works to make the classroom side of everything worked really well for you all, and he works to make sure that he's getting feedback from y'all. If things aren't going well in the classroom, as you might expect from the switch to online learning this past semester that we had, Matt was really integral in making sure that all of those classes continued to run that over in a way that would be most beneficial to our students. So he's really great at all of that. Making sure that our classrooms are what they need to be to be the best for you all.

The other associate Dean is Addie Elliot and she works primarily on that student success piece, so she works with scholarships as well as the academic success coordinators, which academic success coordinator is basically an academic counselor. So you go to them usually about once a semester to kind of check in on class registration, see how you're doing in your classes. You can usually talk to them about your plans for the summer, so whether you're planning on having a job and internship

or they're planning on taking classes, they kind of help establish all of those.

Those pieces for you and the esses are absolutely wonderful, but adde kind of helps. Make sure that they are up to date on training and make. Make sure that they're all communicating with each other across departments so she's really awesome. I'm making those connections. Not only is she great at helping out with those connections at the esses can have, but she loves interacting with you all as students. She's a professor in the soil and crop science Department as well. So if that's something.

Is a class on organic agriculture, so if that's something that you're interested in, you'll probably see her around. But she absolutely loves being able to talk to students and have those connections and be able to point you in directions of connections that she has. So she's been in Fort Collins for quite a while in bed with the College of Agriculture. Almost as long as she's been in Fort Collins and she is just absolutely wonderful at making those connections between students interests and professors to an interesting community partners.

Or connecting you to a student club. She knows the College of AG like the back of your hand and she is absolutely wonderful at that so.

Just know that the two of them are are really kind of working on the back end to make sure that everything runs smoothly for yellow students and so even though they're they're doing that behind the scenes work with some of our other staff. They really are there to also talk to you and make those connections. There's nothing that they love more than having a great sit down conversation with the student. The final two members of our students success team. One of them is ileus Quinones. He is the manager of student life and diversity, so if you really make sure that our clubs and organizations that are

um attached to our college are available in open and willing to include willing to willing to work on inclusive practices and so he is really tight in with those clubs and organizations, he also sits on our diversity and Inclusion Committee for the college and really puts those initiatives to practice. He also does things like host it vents for how to fill out a FAFSA, so if you've never filled out.

The federal financial aid application and you want help with that? He runs a partnered event with the office of financial aid where they go over that.

He also so he does a bunch of events like that throughout the semester where really focused on helping you do, um, certain things that will just help help you and your ability to get through classes and apply to different things throughout the college. So this past semester he also he also hosted a scholarship writing workshops, so you're able to come in, bring your computer an workshop. Some of those scholarship essays that happen when we fill out the Colorado State Scholarship Application which have.

Every March, so we were able to host one of those so that everyone could kind of have some time to work on different prompts and kind of brainstorm together and just kind of have that community space, which is awesome. In addition to that, he also runs wonderful programming during the week before finals week, which to me is some of my favorite. So in the fall, unfortunately this this spring we had to move those all online, but we still were able to do yoga and meditation and have a little.

A coffee chat over Microsoft Teams, which is like a video platform.

Hum, so that was really awesome that we were able to still stay connected that way, but in the fall we had a wonderful brain break week as we call it. So one day we had massage chairs and one of our buildings in the conference room so they were able to give like little 10 to 15 minutes. Chair massages. We gave out pizza in root beer. We had group your floats but we Eliasson. I made like 300 pancakes one morning and everyone came and got some pancakes.

Uh, what else do we do? Well, we had breakfast burritos one morning, so uhm, you know, we're not always here to feed you, but we also love making those connections with you throughout the year. So that's specifically for before finals so that we can all just hang out and distress together and hear about how your semesters are going and hear about your finals and what you have going on. So we really here for that as well.

Well, but then throughout this Mr. We also host things like snacks and student success, so will grab some snacks, usually Mary's mountain cookies, which if you're not from Colorado, are absolutely wonderful. And it said a little town in Old Town, Fort Collins, and so we get some of their cookies and brownies and make some coffee and hang out in our student success space, which right now is hosted in Johnson Hall, which is on the Oval but will soon be in our new agricultural Sciences building within the next couple of years so.

Um, we host those events are just kind of hang out. Share some coffee and and a cookie with y'all.

Uh, see how your day is going. See how your weeks going? Um, it's been really awesome to connect with students that way. All four of us are usually down there, and there's usually some sort of connections that's made like connecting someone to a research lab or connecting someone to a club, or suggesting that you know, connecting students to each other who have similar interests so they can get to know each other and talk about edible insects. That was one that was really fun to hear that connection so.

Um, there's a lot going on during during that time, and it's been really awesome as to be able to be a part of that so.

A rundown of how we how we work as a student success came in those things that we do, so we all. All four of us have those different roles and then in the fall will have someone joining us to do career services. So we'll be seeing partially within less CSU career services center, but also partially with us in the College of agricultural Sciences, so they'll be available to help find internships, jobs to help find potentially like lab placements within the University. So they'll be there to help you with your resume, your cover letter, what that looks like.

And what it looks like specific to agriculture and they also have a ton of industry connection, so they'll be able to no matter what industry you're in. Point you in the right direction to make a connection for an internship or a job.

A man, so we don't know who that person is yet. We just finished interviews. A few weeks ago. So we should have someone by the fall, which will be really often they have them on board and I think that those events to like a resume Russia. You bring your resume get it. Edit it a little bit pass, it around brainstorm? How to write a certain internship for a job on there and there, it's a really useful resource for y'all as our students. I see her first question is in here awesome. How does the College of AG differ from the College of natural resources?

It's a great question just to get a clarifying question. You mean in the academics or student success or classes? What are you looking for with that? If you want to add that to the top and if anyone else wants to put questions, feel free to pop into the chat, whether it's about student success, whether it's about College of egg, whether it's about how we're different, what you know, what the classes look like. I'm up to answer at really anything during this time, so.

Um, put those questions in the chat if you have them. But Amanda asked, how did the college about how does the college bag differ from the College of natural resources? Academics price? So that's a great question to be above.

So the way that I like to think about the difference between natural resources and agriculture, which I think is something that I do a lot because I actually was able Warner College natural resources as an undergraduate student at CSU. So I know what's taught in most classrooms and I'm starting to learn more and more about what's being taught in our agriculture classroom. So natural resources? You're looking at sustainability in the sense of keeping the ecosystem the way it is. How do we maintain these spaces?

Uh, in the way that they have an agriculture. You're manipulating those natural resources. So where agriculture is just manipulating soil, animals, crops, whatever that might be to best benefit us as as people in sustain us. So when you're looking at the difference between the two of them, they overlap a lot. For instance, I think one of the most applicable majors in the College of Natural Resources who are college would be rangeland ecology. So that's looking at where beef cattle another.

Livestock graze in different areas and so that obviously ties directly in with agriculture, but so when we're looking at range land in the West, a lot of the time they're looking at how to reintroduce native plans, or what plants are on this range. Land where there are things that were brought there by cattle that weren't there before, and that kind of thing. So they're looking at the make up of the ecosystem, whereas maybe someone working on a on a beef operation from the college with egg is looking at how do we sustain this land?

To the best of the ability to be able to feed as many cattle as we can on it, uhm while maintaining it. And so they go really, really well together. And that's just one of the many examples that I can think of.

Where they really overlap? Uhm, but I think the main differences with natural resources a lot of the time you're looking at the whole system and you're looking at the natural system and in the College of AG. So like Animal Sciences, you're looking at, you know, really controlled systems, right? Like farms, beef operations like ranches, that kind of thing.

Where is like wildlife biology in the College of natural science or college? Natural resources you're looking at like how wildlife fits into the ecosystem. How do you monitor them? What does it mean if their populations decline or rise? So that's kind of how I make that make that differentiation between the two.

I'm obviously not an expert, but that's kind of how I think of it, and then another example of that is, you know, like Forestry, a rangeland ecology or restoration ecology, you're looking at these spaces and you're looking at all of the factors that go into like maintaining them in their natural spaces, whereas like horticulture or landscape architecture, you're taking those plants out of their natural habitat, figuring out how do they grow best in a greenhouse or what environment do they grow best in?

When they are placed in a lawn or what does that look like? Uhm, and like how do you manipulate them to make you know their Flowers bigger or brighter or whatever that looks like? So agriculture is really that manipulation of those natural resources. So yeah, they overlap so so much. and I love both of the colleges dearly there. Two of the smaller colleges on campus, so both the college bag in the college debt resources has have wonderful communities. Tide to them and I think.

No matter which one you choose to go into, you can't really go wrong. Uhm, I like I obviously have a really soft spot in my heart for Warner College natural resources, because that's kind of Alma Mater, College at CSU. But over the past couple of months, I've come to love the College of Agricultural Sciences as well as a staff member.

So if you have more questions, Amanda about that that you want to kind of figure out what you know more specifics look like. Pop him in the chat. I'll try to do a better job at being more specific with some of those things.

Morgan has a question for incoming freshmen in landscape architecture about course selection.

Great question, so AP scores won't be published until July, but your orientation happens mid June. How do you know turn role in? That's a great question. So during orientation will be meeting with academic advisors and that's a great question to ask them. So they've gone through those situations before and they know what that's like and it is a little funky usually what can happen is you know if you think you might get credit for a certain class from AP, you can hold off taking that until like the second semester of your fresh.

If it's a fresh in your class, so they'll work with you to work to figure out what works best, and then hopefully fingers crossed you get that credit and you don't have to take that class would be the best case scenario there. So I would. I would talk to your academic success coordinator.

Uh, if you would like there.

Information so that you can reach out before orientation. It's on our website, otherwise I'd be more than willing to email that you as well Morgan. So just let me know what you want to do. But if you wait until the orientation date as well, they should be able to help you figure out what courses you should take with the consideration that you might have some course credit coming in from those AP classes.

Awesome, so we have a question from Dakota. A water class. Life size is like in the College of AG. That's a great question. So are student to faculty. Ratio is about 11 to one, so that's not necessarily in the classroom. But that's saying that our staff and faculty we have one for every eleven students, so that's a little bit smaller than the University as a whole, which is really nice. So that means that we have more staff in those spaces and class sizes. It really depends on your major and what classes you're taking.

Um, right like an intro animal science class that's going to be closer to 100. A 120 students may be a little bit more.

And that is usually in a flipped classroom, so those are usually movable desks and chairs that you're in like little pods and can work on things together as a pod, but could also be held in a lecture Hall. Depending on what professors teaching it that specific semester. But then if you look at like agriculture education, it's one of the OR landscape architecture. Those are some of the smaller classes or smaller majors in our college, so just naturally those those classes are going to be smaller because there are less students in them.

That being said as well there are some general education courses that a lot of our students take that a lot of other students around the University take as well so we're looking at like our life courses which are our intro biology courses so life 102 and 103 a lot of college guys to take them a lot of natural Sciences majors has to take them a lot of natural resource majors take them some engineering students take them so it's really a lot of students that are in those classes and so those are going to be those larger.

Like 175 two hundred person classes in a lecture Hall, and they're going to be split up for the labs into groups of about 20 or 25, so you do get those smaller interactions and learning opportunities within those classes, just not in the lecture Hall itself. So I like to warn students that even though I've College of AG is small, you could be in one of those larger lecture halls, but we do a really great job of making sure that we have teaching assistants, those TAS and we have professors that are really dedicated to this.

This subject so even though it's a large class, that doesn't mean that you're just a number, you have those teaching assistants there to help you out. All of the professors at CSU that are teaching undergraduate classes are required to have office hours listed, so they have those office hours for you to be able to go in and ask questions. And as a student at CSU in a lot of those larger classes to fill fulfill my zoology degree requirements, I never felt like I couldn't ask the professor question or stay after class.

Or schedule time for an appointment.

So even though those classes that are outside of the College of AG might be a little bit bigger, they'll still have the resources for you to be able to succeed no matter what your learning style is. And then they kind of get into the nitty gritty of what you know, like a senior class might look like.

One of the students that I work with really closely. He just graduated, but his last credit for his agricultural education minor in egg literacy. He had four people in their in their class, so instead of meeting three times a week for an hour each time, the professor decided that since they were working on an individual project, most of the time that he could meet with them, one on one for an hour each week instead of meeting everybody for three hours.

Uh, together in a group. So that worked out really well for him and for the rest of his classmates, 'cause they were able to get that one on one time with a really knowledgeable professor from other classes. There's like a meat processing class where in December students make their own recipe for sausage and then make it, and we have like a sausage tasting in the atrium are animal Sciences building, and so I went and saw that, and there were about between 8 and 10 students in that class, and that was one of the the.

Final classes offered for seniors in that in meat processing. So if that kind of gives you a scale even though you know those internal science classes might be really big by the time you're kind of getting into those specialized areas of what you really like in any of those in any of our degrees, you're down to those smaller class sizes anywhere from forwarded. Maybe 20 is what I would say.

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Awesome, we have a question from Brooke about the key community and you can't find anyone who's going to be at CSU in the fall. That's also in that community and the deadline to request a roommate on broomstick is June 9th, which is coming right up. And what happens if you can't find anyone to room with by that date? So kind of broadening this as well to everybody. If there's no one else on room sink that meets your your housing assignment, what will happen is you'll be randomly assigned to someone else in that community.

Um and wet. By random, I mean when you were filling out the housing application, you filled out preferences. Whether you're a night owl or an early bird, what that looks like for you and they'll do their best to match a match you with someone who really aligns with that, and with some of those, the key communities as well. Or if you're looking or something for like honors, that kind of thing. Sometimes other students that are in those communities don't just don't sign up for a room sink, and so then it's hard to find someone else who's going to be in there.

With you so if you're still looking and there's nobody but you are a little bit concerned, you can always reach out to housing and dining and see if there are any other options for connecting to other people. Otherwise, I would say it's totally OK to have that random. As I said, roommate.

Uh, I used room sink when I was coming to see you soon is really helpful, but my sister didn't and she had a random roommate and it turned out just fine so I know it can be really like kind of scary to not not know.

But with that as well, you'll still get in the Sr roommate assignment before you before move in, so you'll have time to talk with that person, figure stuff out. For me, it was. Figure out who's bringing the mini fridge who's bringing the microwave. That kind of those kind of conversations. You'll still be able to connect with the person that you'll be living with, and you'll still be able to have those those resources at the same time that everyone else does. But yeah, if you are concerned about room sink and you can't see anyone else on there.

You can always just check in with housing and dining and make sure that there isn't anyone on there and there's just a glitch in the system or something. It wouldn't hurt just to check in with them and with their office.

Uh, let's see a question from Jayden. Are the hands-on classes still running for the fall? Not sure what's going on for picking specific classes yet, and wondering because of coded great question. So our president, Joyce McConnell released a statement late last week that are classes will be running in person on campus to the extent that they can. So obviously any restrictions that are still affecting Colorado and Larimer County will be following.

But That being said, We're making plans to run the classes, especially the hands-on ones, and so those, since we since we know that will be running on campus and then just see I'll know as well. It is already been decided that after fall break, which is the week of Thanksgiving.

After that, the last two weeks of course delivery will be on line, so usually you'd come back to campus. Have one more week of classes and then take finals week after that. But instead that last week of instruction and finals will be on line, which I know is a switch, but it's what's been recommended by our University response team as they think that it will just reduce travel and reduce stress to be able to still have most of the semester being person and be successful in person.

Uhm and then have some time to make sure that we're not coming back from areas with unknown cases that gets spread or anything like that so.

To my right, to the best of my knowledge, in the best of our knowledge is a University we will be running those classes to the best of our ability once again. When you're in that orientation. If you want to ask more questions of your academic success coordinators, they'll know more specifics for the Department and maybe even know specifics for classes of what they're doing.

But my understanding is that everything will all, specially the hands-on experiences will be running the way they should in the fall. Uhm, you know, barring any emergency action that needs to be taken. So thank you for that question. If there's any more questions about the following, what it looks like in anything that I know, I don't have all the answers yet, and I haven't been looped in on everything that's being discussed for options, but I'd be more than happy to answer what I know.

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Let's see, uh, OK. I'm going back to Amanda, uh, majoring in wildlife. Thinking about majoring in majoring in wildlife biology. Because you really love animals. Awesome B2. What are some of the opportunities that CSU has such as clubs are interns?

That's related to this great question. Uhm so for animal lovers, there's all sorts of options for you. While you're at CSU, so I would say our three most common majors. If you love animals. Animal Sciences, which is in our College College of Agricultural Sciences, Wildlife Biology, which is in college and natural resources and then either biology or zoology which is in College of Natural Sciences.

Um and so if this is something that you you absolutely love up and you want to get involved in and you're thinking yet, wildlife biology sounds like it. I absolutely loved all of my classes, but extracurriculars an clubs. There's tons of them, so there's the Wildlife Society, so you're able to go to their. That's a professional organization, so there are wildlife professionals. So like professors and researchers that are part of the non collegiate chapters, but they have opportunities to go to events for them.

They also do some outreach opportunities with in Fort Collins, so the Wildlife Society runs a camera trap project out near Horsetooth Mountain. If you know where that is in Fort Collins in different areas over there so they do camera traps where they see what comes by on the trail in their processing, those in a lab, which is what a lot of wildlife biologist do in the field as well. We also have a camera trap going on in soapstone Prairie, which is where if you've heard of the black footed ferret reintroduction.

And the Bison and re introduction those are happening on the soapstone Prairie. So black footed ferrets were thought to be extinct until pretty recently and there are very important to ecosystems that have Prairie dogs as well as grazers. So yeah, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife have been reintroduced. Reintroducing them in the wildlife society has been able to set up some cameras and monitor those black footed ferrets which is pretty cool.

Also, Fort Collins has a an office for Colorado Parks and Wildlife that does have most a lot of the wildlife division in it, so you can get connected to them either volunteering or potentially job opportunities are there as well.

Um, other than that, there's also the Rocky Mountain Raptor program, which has a strong partnership with CSU in a lot of wildlife biology students partner with them. There are tons of lab opportunities across all of the colleges, animal Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Natural Resources to get hands on experience. Internships with either research with animals or hands-on directly with animals.

So there's lots of opportunities for that, uh?

Yeah, I would say as a wildlife biologist, didn't you get less hands-on experience with live animals? Uhm, unless you're working for like a rehabilitation, programs like that Rocky Mountain Raptor program.

But it's still really wonderful to understand how how they work within the ecosystem and how that effects.

Our lives as well so highly recommend wildlife biology. If Amanda if you'd like to get connected with the recruitment coordinator from the College of natural science or natural resources. If you haven't talked to Jake already, I'd be more than happy to connect you too as well. He might have some fund resources for you as you're thinking about that.

So let me know if that would be helpful, a awesome.

Let me see Dakota asking about info about the annual flower trial garden and can freshman be involved absolutely so that student I was talking about before, UM, his name is Ryan who just recently graduated and his class experience that I was talking about. He actually worked for the trial right in his freshman year as well. For those of you who don't know, Lucius you trial garden is when different seed companies send their their seeds to CSU and CU get supplant them and grow them.

And then, uh, see how they grow where they best, bro? Um, see the different colors. If there is vibrant as they want them to be, and then awards are given to the best seeds every year. So it's really pretty. Lots of great Flowers and it's alright on our campus over at our University Center for the arts. And so there are opportunities to maintain those and help maintain those throughout the late summer and fall. And if you're interested in that, once you're on campus, you should be able to.

Find those opportunities on something, right? Actually, after you've deposited, you should be able to see this as well, but there are opportunities on what's called Ram link.

So if you have never logged on to Ram Lincoln, you are committed to CSU. I'd recommend going on there.

And you can look at job opportunities on an off campus that are posted there.

Um and jobs. Of this with the trial garden would be posted on that ram link as well, so feel free to check that out.

Let's see, yeah, should you expect to stay conscious to come back after winter break? Or is it likely that classes will stay virtual? Um, that's a great question and one that I don't have a great answer for. I believe the intent of having all stay.

Stay where you are when you leave for fall break. Um is that?

You know you'll have the those two weeks where you're online, learning from home or wherever you go back to and then you'll have that whole winter break and then hopefully if there is something going on that.

Like you know, hopefully that printing that travel will allow us to be back after winter break as well, so that's definitely the hope and the intent behind having y'all stay where you are after fall break up. But obviously we can't see for see everything that could happen, so if there was an outbreak in Colorado or an outbreak in a state where we have a lot of students coming back from, that might change. But we're kind of preparing for everything and making sure that. Also, students who can't come back.

Or can't travel or are taking care of family members or whatever that looks like we're working on making sure that we can also have options for those students who can't be physically on campus in the fall and in the spring, so.

I wish I had a clearer answer to that, but I think it really depends on what happens with numbers and what it looks like in Colorado in the nation in a few months.

Let's see.

A question from Dakota. Uhm, how much do scores on placement exams impact ability to register for certain classes? Can you get into higher level classes if your scores aren't where they need to be? So they're pretty strict about placement scores, especially for math classes. Just because she wants to make sure that you are at that level that they want you to be to be able to be in those higher classes.

Uhm, but if you weren't happy with your placement score, do you think you could do better? You can always request to redo those. Um, that's something that I did coming into CSU. I had just graduated. I was working at a summer camp. I didn't have a Calculator with me and I decided to take the math placement test without a Calculator, which was not a great decision. Looking back and so I requested a retest through that office and they were able to provide me with one. So if that's something that you want to pursue, feel free.

Otherwise, if you were placed into a a class that's lower than the level that you think you should be in, you could reach out to that Department directly. If it's like Spanish placement placement, that kind of thing you could reach out and see what other options are available.

But typically without retaking the test or talking to someone directly, um, you will be where your placement test put you.

Awesome, let's see.

Awesome question from Brooke about the honors program. Congrats on being in the honors program to you, Brooke and anyone else on this call who's in there? That's a great achievement. And for those of you who are on here and maybe not in it but are thinking about it, there are options to get into the honors program as current students, so keep that in mind. And if that if it's not your thing.

You're on this call, sorry bout chatting about it, but we're going to chat about it just a little bit.

So will you be advised by the honors advisor or the ECB Sciences advisor will be the honors advisor? Will you still be able to get connected with the AG program as much as the other students? Yeah, so they're both there for your resources, so the honors program advisor, Diane. I'm not sure how orientation is running this year just because of it being online. I believe you'll be with us and egg Sciences, but also typically honors has their hand in there somewhere. When I came to registration when I was a student.

Yesterday with Diane up, but I think you're meeting directly with your ex Sciences advisor during orientation.

Correct me if I'm wrong, uhm, but your egg Sciences advisor is also just as successful. Tus Diane, if not more so. Diane overseas all of the honor students and doesn't necessarily see every student every semester. But that's kind of what the academic, the excellences advisors are for our view, to see them every semester when you have questions, scheduling appointment, emailing with those questions, Diane will have really great options, or.

Um opportunities for you to play around with minors and 2nd majors and things like that.

She's really good at finding finding ways to fit multiple course loads into four years. Uhm, I went to see her when I declared my second major and we fit it all into 2 two majors, two separate pieces of paper into four years, so that's kind of her superpower is seeing everything at the University. Where is the egg science advisors are really good at seeing what's in our college. And really, you know, pointing out the opportunities that would be sad for you to pass up.

So they're both going to be available to you. They're both great resources. I would say that you're probably going to.

Write your egg science advisor more. In general, connecting with other egg students. I think it'll just be pretty pretty simple. Hopefully you'll get connected with some other egg students in the honors program so that you all can take care of some of those honors requirements together outside of egg and the honors program is great because it also connects you to students that are have similar interests but are in different areas of the University so.

Because of the Honors Program, I had friends that were up in a human dimensions of Natural Resources. I had friends that were in the College of Natural Sciences. I had friends over in the College of of Biomedical Sciences Inventory Medison. I had friends in the cult like the College of business. So you really from that honors connection. Get a lot of connections outside the College of AG as well. So we'll probably meet a lot of people in your major in your intro classes.

With your AG classes and then you kind of get some of those other students that are in other areas of the University. In your honor seminars and things like that.

Like I said, I was in the honors program and I really enjoyed my experience so good. Connecting in different ways through through that honors program and make friends with people in AG who are also in the Honors Program. It'll just help you be able to complete projects for the honors program with the lens of Agriculture just a little more too.

OK.

The question from Jayden AH awesome yeah awesome Jade and I will look it up and get that information to you through email right after this. If for context if anyone else wants the name of their academic advisor.

I can get that information to you, um, and send you their email so that you're able to connect with them. If you want a meeting with them, I can also help schedule that so that we can make sure that it fits in their schedules.

Hum.

Let's see.

Brooke, that's a great question. Brooke asked about options to take another chemical chemistry class other than Chem 111. If you're unable to complete the Kemp rap.

I'm.

I am unsure about that. That's also another great question for academic coordinator, your advisor in academics.

So if you'd like to speak with them before your orientation, um, that's definitely something that I can connect you with them for. Otherwise, I think that's also a question that you can ask during that orientation session as well.

Awesome.

Let's see.

Any other questions?

From anybody.

OK.

If no one else has any questions, I want to be respectful of your all's time as well, so I'll give you a little more time to type in in some questions, but I also just want to say thank you for taking some time today to sit in on this web and R. And please, please reach out to me with any questions that you might have. My email is just Susan S USA N dot Brown.

At Hollowstatecolostate.edu, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions that you all have. I know this is a weird time to be completing your college search, but congratulations, you made it. I know it's not easy and I know it's something that's a little bit up in the air for everybody right now, so thank you so much for taking the time to come and listen about student success and asks wonderful questions about.

Getting here in about academic success and about our team.

From so like I said, if you have any other questions send me an email. I have so far two people that would like their academic advisor Contacts email to them. I can definitely do that. If anyone else wants that, feel free to put it in the chat.

But I'll just end by letting you know why I chose to use you and why I stayed. So I mentioned it a little bit at the beginning and I came back because I missed the community, but when I visited CSU I was on campus for less than 30 minutes, so I didn't even go on a full campus tour. But my aunt and I visited and I fell in love with the campus and the tour guide. Even though we ditched her tour, was really awesome and and nice and funny. and I came back to Wisconsin. I told my parents.

I'm going to see us, you and they were like what like you weren't there that long? Um, and so I came back and toured with them after I had been admitted and they immediately understood why the community at CSU so awesome people hold doors open for each other. It's just really friendly.

I once over heard it when I was a student. I was working on a paper in our student center and I over heard two people become friends because one of them was eating acai berries and the other one came over and was like how you berries and they ended up exchanging phone numbers and planning to meet up and be friends so people are just that friendly at CSU and in Colorado in general. I have a student who is from Washington and that's something that she always mentions when she's talking to perspective students is she went home and she opened and held the door for someone.

And they gave her kind of a weird look and she realized, like, Oh, we don't really do that here. Like that's something that we do at CSU that's really impactful and really has made a difference in her life so.

Uh, that's why I chose CSU and then I stayed for the same reason that people had. CSU really care that professors are there to support you. The staff are there to support you. Everyone wants to see you succeed and they're giving you options to succeed. And they're giving you those opportunities to make those connections. As far as industry connections go, these use connected in Colorado, but they're also connected all over the world. So it's really awesome to see where all of my friends have gone. I have friends working for Disney in Florida.

I have friends working for, uh, the racehorse centers down in Kentucky. I have friends that were still saying have stayed in Colorado working for the Colorado Beef Cattlemen's Association. Friends working for the USDA. I have friends who went up to Canada and work on infant squirrel research. So really the opportunities are endless and a CSU education really opens those doors for you.

If you make those connections while you're here.

Uh, so once again, thanks for coming today. Like I said, email me any questions please please please, uh, and I hope you have a great rest of your Monday. For those of you who have asked for your academic advisors information, I will send you an email after this.

But yeah, I just want to be respectful of y'alls time on this Monday. So if I don't see any questions come in, I'll leave the chat open for another minute and I'll just kind of be sitting here. But after that I will close the chat and everyone can resume their Monday, but thanks so much for joining. I can't wait to see you here in the fall and will see you at ram. Welcome in August on campus.

OK bye everyone, have a great rest of your Monday and go Rams.