Faculty Information
Advising Basics
Enhancing Your Effectiveness as an Advisor
At Risk Factors
Students Changing Advisors
Why Advise?
Advising gives you the opportunity to challenge students to:
- make informed decisions
- set short-and long-range educational goals
- accept responsibility for their educational development
- grow personally and academically
Advising is an opportunity to talk to students about:
- life and career goals
- lifestyles
- values, interest, and abilities
- learning styles, strengths, and limitations
- decision-making skills
- campus resources
- your academic area
What is Developmental Advising?
Developmental advising...
- is a process, not a paper and pencil activity
- is concerned with human growth
- is goal-related
- requires establishment of caring interaction
- uses all resources of the academic community
Enhancing Your Effectiveness as an Advisor
Enhance your effectiveness as an advisor by...
- considering the advising relationship as an opportunity to teach students
- beginning the advising relationship with a discussion of the broader reasons for advising
- empowering students to make their own decisions
- encouraging students to become involved with advising, academics, and co-curricular aspects of university life
- collaborating with other departments, including student services, to improve advising
- acquiring your advisee's College Student Inventory, and being familiar with the results
A student's MINDSET contributes to his/her academic success.
- M - Motivation
- I - Initiative
- N - Navigation skills – navigate regulations and requirements of college to stay on track
- D - Direction – short and long-term educational and career goals
- S - Study skills
- E - Expectations
- T - Time Management
Six most common factors contributing to academic difficulty include:
- Poor time management
- Poor study skills
- Lack of problem solving/coping skills
- Employed too many hours
- Inappropriate expectations of college
- Lack of internal motivation
If students need to change their advisor have them contact the Academic Advising Center at 501-279-4531 or they can go to the Academic Advising office in Student Center 222.