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Student survey reveals gaps in core academic advising functions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Locksley Knibbs, lead academic adviser for students studying the natural sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University, knows that advisers take on different roles to serve the whole student: mentor, advocate, mediator, coach. “We advise you based on the curriculum or the degree that you have declared on your record.

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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams-Goliday has been helping guide students for decades, first as an academic adviser for Eastern Illinois University’s Office of Minority Affairs beginning in 1998. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have an academic adviser. We also have an academic coordinator who coordinates daily activities. Lena Walton, dean of Alabama A&M’s College of Education, Humanities, and Behavioral Sciences. Once we received funding from the state, I was able to collaboratively develop the program,” Strachan said. “We

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College cancels classes for career, advising expo

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Faculty wanted to support student retention and provide greater academic support through a day of just academic advising in the spring semester. And, as originally intended, faculty academic advisers were available by appointment to meet with students all day. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University of Dayton, Sinclair CC share students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A direct line: During their time at Sinclair, students meet with an academic adviser at UD each semester “to ensure they are on track for a successful academic transition,” Thompson says. Smoothing out the creases: Working across institutions has created challenges in data sharing, Thompson says.

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Success coaching retains first-year students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Coaches work with their student cohort, either one-on-one or in a group setting, for the first year before handing them off to academic advisers for sophomore, junior and senior year. If a student misses their registration deadline, for example, their success coach can step in and set up a meeting. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Eight ways to boost student engagement with advisers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Be Inclusive Melinda Anderson, executive director of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, says that her group has noticed “differences in who seeks support based on race.” ” Some institutions also set clear expectations for what students should contribute to the adviser-advisee relationship.