Advisor Responsibilities
- Effectively communicate to advisees the curriculum and graduation requirements for the major.
- Effectively communicate the College and university’s academic policies and procedures.
- Encourage and guide advisees to define and develop realistic academic and personal goals.
- Encourage and support advisees’ academic progress according to their educational plans.
- Provide advisees with information about available campus resources and services and provide support in utilizing those resources and services.
- Assist advisees in understanding the purposes and value of higher education and its effects on their lives and personal goals.
- Monitor and accurately document advisees’ progress toward meeting their academic and personal goals.
- Be available to advise either individually or in groups during office hours or other academic meeting. Advisors may also use e-mail or the telephone for advisement.
- Make sure that advisees adhere to the appropriate sequence of course offerings including course prerequisites within their major program of study.
- Assist advisees in gaining decision-making skills and in assuming responsibility for their educational plans and achievements.
- Inform advisees of academic and programmatic changes within their major program of study.
- Maintain confidentiality.
