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Fulfilling the Potential of Academic Advising:
Engaging Faculty Advisors
Maura ReynoldsHope College, Holland MI
The Global Community for Academic Advising
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Three Assumptions
about Working with Faculty
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What do faculty need
to advise well?
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1.Faculty need to understand what advising is.
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If we contact faculty about advising only as registration approaches,
faculty will assume that
advising = registering for classes.
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“Academic advising is an educational process that
facilitates students’ understanding of
the meaning and purpose of higher education and fosters
their intellectual and personal development
toward academic success and life-long learning.”
National Academic Advising Association, 2004
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2. Faculty need to understand what advising involves.
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Concern about being a counselor.Concern about making mistakes.Concern about “real” experience.Concern about students’ needs and diversity.Concern about time commitment.
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3. Faculty need to know that advising “matters.”
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“Perhaps the most urgent reform on most campuses in improving general education involves academic advising. To have programs and courses become coherent and significant to students requires adequate advising.”
Task Force on General EducationAssociation of American Colleges, 1988
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“We have not equipped students to engage their learning intentionally, nor have we helped them to understand how their learning engages their lives...This is advising as it could be.”
Ned Scott Laff“Teachable Moments: Advising as Liberal Learning:”
Liberal Education, Spring 2006
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“The quality of academic advising is the single most powerful predictor of satisfaction with campus environment for students at four year schools.”
National Survey of Student Engagement2005
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Students who rate advising as good or excellent
•Are more likely to interact with faculty•Perceive institution’s environment to be more supportive overall•Are more satisfied with their overall college experience, and•Gain more from college in most areas.
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
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“It is hard to imagine any academic support function
that is more important to student
success and institutional
productivity than advising.”
Kuh, 1997
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“Effective retention programs have come to understand that academic advising is at the very core of successful institutional efforts to educate and retain students.”
Vince Tinto (1993)
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4. Faculty need our help.
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Eliminate as much paperwork as possible by…..
•Creating a degree evaluation
•Posting [on-line] accurate, timely, & appropriate info…
for faculty & students.
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Emphasize multiple sources of information and help.
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• “I’m not sure; let’s find out.”
• Prepare “scripts” for typical scenarios.
Sound Bites for Sound Advising (biblio)
Address directly concerns that make faculty insecure.
•Templates for reflection and self-assessment tools for students
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Before offering faculty workshops, sending e-mails, contacting faculty, ask “How does this activity support advising as learning?”
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On your campus, how do faculty (and students) find out about advising?
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What resources about advising does your campus provide
for faculty (& students)?