Advisor Responsibilities
- Assist you in planning a program consistent with your strengths, abilities, goals, and interests.
- Monitor progress toward educational/career goals.
- Discuss and reinforce linkages and relationships between instructional program and occupation/career.
- Interpret and provide rationale for instructional policies, procedures, and requirements.
- Approve designated educational transactions (e.g., drops and adds, withdrawals, waivers, graduation requirements, etc.).
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date advising records.
- Make referrals when academic, attitudinal, attendance, or other personal problems require intervention by other professionals such as the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).
- Develop a caring relationship/rapport with advisees.
- Inform you of special services available to you for remediation, ADA/504 accommodations, academic assistance, and other needs.
- Follow through on “Early Warning System” (EWS) alerts regarding advisees.
Advisee Responsibilities
- Contact and make an appointment with the advisor when required or when in need of assistance. If you find it impossible to keep the appointment, you must notify the advisor.
- Become knowledgeable and adhere to institutional policies, procedures, and requirements.
- Prepare for advising sessions and bring appropriate resources or materials.
- Follow through on actions identified during each advising session.
- Evaluate the advising system, when requested, in order to strengthen the advising process.
- Request re-assignment of a different advisor if necessary.
