" A sound and substantive college education should be a life-changing experience for students" ~ Terry O'Banion
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" Academic advising is a series of intentional interactions with a curriculum, pedagogy, and student learning outcomes. It synthesizes and contextualizes a student's educational experience within the framework of their aspirations, abilities, and lives to extend learning beyond the campus boundaries and time frames."
National Academic Advising Association | Concept of Academic Advising (2007)
National Academic Advising Association | Concept of Academic Advising (2007)
Advisors Forum
This forum is created with the intention to provide a space for university advisors to share their thoughts, expertise, best practices and knowledge on advising students on major and career choice.
Monthly themes that will be discussed this academic year include:
Monthly themes that will be discussed this academic year include:
- Who are Exploratory / Open / Undecided / Undeclared Students and what are some factors that influence their decision making?
- Equity & Diversity: Advising first-generation students and students from historically underrepresented backgrounds make a major choice.
- Do Advisers Teach? What do they teach? Comment on the NACADA article " If Advising is Teaching, What Do Advisors Teach?"
- Advising in the 21st Century: Effective technology tools to optimize the advising experience for students and advisors
- How to engage students in the advising process?
- Building essential academic, life, career skills to help students strive in their education and beyond.
- Multicultural Competencies
- Advising student athletes
- Advising gifted and talented students
- Confidentiality and FERPA
- Students referral
- Knowledge of learning and student development theories
- Advising students under academic probation