Academic Advising Resources

A student beginning collegiate life faces a steep learning curve of expectations and responsibilities. The first year of said student can be critical in making or breaking their academic career. Necessary to success of this transitional period is a student’s academic advisor. Gathered here are a variety of materials geared toward easing the stresses of the students starting down their path through higher education.

NACADA resources:

• Cultivating a Sense of Belonging in First-Year Seminars, via Academic Advising Today, 2018
• Developing a Low-Cost Program for high-Achieving First Year Students, via Academic Advising Today, 2018
• Academic Advisors as First-Year Experience Instructors, via Academic Advising Today, 2018
• A Trail map for the First Year and Beyond, via Academic Advising Today, 2016
• Advising first-generation students, by Angela Renee Sickles, 2004
• Advising first-year students, by Jessica Bigger, 2005
• Advising first-year international students, by Susanne Stürzl-Forrest, 2012
• Enhancing students' college experience with specific advising suggestions, via Academic Advising Today, 2003
• First-Year Seminars and Advising: How Advisors Make a Lifelong Impact, via Academic Advising Today, 2015
• Suggestions to new students, by Jerry O'Connor

 

• Mastering the art of advising through the first-year and beyond, 2008

 Other resources:

• First Year Advising Center: Advising Syllabus, via Oakland University, 2018
• SE 101: Freshman Success at Southeastern Syllabus, via Villa Maria College, 2018
• SE 102: Freshman Academic Coaching Seminar Syllabus, via Villa Maria College, 2018
• Undergraduate Co Curricular Programs, via University of LaVerne, 2018
• Majors and Minors Catalogue, via University of LaVerne, 2018
• First Year Seminar Course Syllabus, via Pennsylvania State University, 2018
• Personal and Professional Identitiy Development Syllabus, via Poole College of Management at NC State, 2018
• Dialoguing with New Students and their Parents at the College Level, 2014
• The American freshman: National norms fall 2013, via Cooperative Institutional Research Program
• Bridging academics and student affairs to advance student success: Freshmen academies, via American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2011
• Faculty tips for first-gen students, via Inside Higher Education, 2014
• Helping first-year students help themselves, via The Chronicle, 2011
• Missed opportunities in first-year seminars, via Academic Impressions, 2012
• Predicting Student Success: When SAT and GPA Aren't Enough, via Academic Impressions, 2012
• Residential colleges: Residential campuses and the renewal of campus life, via The Collegiate Way
• The road to resilience, via American Psychological Association
• The college environment: Factors influencing student transition and their impact on academic advising, via The Mentor, 2005
• First year center research surveys, via National Resource Center
• Student success in college: Assessing the conditions for educational effectiveness via National Resource Center for First Year Experience, 2006

Institution resources:

• Beloit College Mindset, compares incoming first-year class to parents' experiences
• College student expectations questionnaire data, via California State University, Fresno, 2004
• College student experiences questionnaire, via Indiana University

Institution websites:

• El Camino College
• Kentucky Online Colleges and Universities
• University of Wisconsin

Centers:

• National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition  (University of South Carolina) 
• John N Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

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