Working with students

Student Population Groups

• 30+ student groups such as first-year students, probation students, etc.

Resources helpful in advising students

• Academic Support Services
• Associations with information related to advising 
• Career Advising Resource Links

• College and university catalogs via the University of Texas

• College and university advising web sites
• Communication and Listening Skills
• Counseling Issues and Services web links

  (includes mental health issues)

• Critical Thinking Skills
• Decision-making
• Developmental Advising
• Enrollment/Registration resources.
• Financial Aid and money management  
• Gamer Addiction
• Goal-Setting
• GPA Calculators   

• Icebreakers  

• Student Intake Forms

• Intrusive Advising  

• Learning Communities

• Learning Styles web links

• Major exploration
• Memory aids
• Mental Health Issues
• New Student Orientation
• Problem-solving strategies
• Publications and publishers
• Guide to writing reference letters for advisees
• Referral Resources
• Spirituality on Campus
• Study Abroad links
• Structuring an Advising Session
• Time Management
• Transcript Evaluation

Delivery Methods and Modes

• Advising organizational structures (advising models)
• Comparison of advising services via AACSU
• College Café classroom workshops  
• Developmental Advising
• Faculty Advising Issues
• Group Advising
• Integrated Centers
  • Advising & Career
  • Advising & Academic /Learning Support
• Intrusive Advising
• Peer Advising Program links
• Professional Advisors
• Structuring an Advising Session
• Technology in advising Web links
  • College/university advising podcasts

Ethics and Legal Issues

• Ethics in Advising
• Legal Issues in Advising

Advisor and System Related

Administrative and Professional Issues

• How to Become an Academic Advisor
• Advising Administration
• Advisor Load
• Advisor Training
• Assessment of Advising
  • CAS Academic Advising Standards and Guidelines
  • Student Learning Outcomes
• Budget & Funding Issues
• Campus-based advising organization
• Centers that integrate academic advising and careers
• Change
• Communication includes cross-generational & cross-cultural
• Components of an Effective Advising Program
• Conflict Resolution
• Cultural issues in advising
• Cuseo Collection via the University of Wisconsin
• Delivery of Advising Services (see advising models below)
• Downtime: The Crunch Is Over...Now What?
• Effectiveness of Academic Advising via Assessment
• Email advising guidelines
• Generational issues in advising and in the workplace
• Guidelines for advisor notes
• Handbook - Creating an advisor handbook
• Student Learning Objectives
• Mission statements for academic advising
• New Advisors
• Office design resources
• Student Orientation resources
• Working with Parents
• Using a Portfolio to Document Advisor Effectiveness
• Presentation Resources
• Professional development (also see Advisor Training)
• Reporting issues Academic vs. Student Affairs
• Research and grant writing web links
• Responsibilities/expectations of advisors and advisees
• Retention and Advising
  • Early Alert Systems, Exit Surveys
  • Probation issues
• Restructuring Advising Services
• Safety Issues
• Salary and advisor classification information
• Stress Management, Burn Out and Inspirational Resources
• Structuring an advising session
• Student Services and Advising
• Student Use of Advising Services
• Syllabi for academic advising
• Techniques for drawing students to advising
• Women in Administration Issues

History, Theory, Philosophy, and Values

• Advising Definitions
• Advising Standards and Values
  • CAS Standards
  • Concept of Academic Advising
  • Core Values
• Chronology of Academic Advising
• History
  • What is Academic Advising? Concept of Academic Advising
  • Academic Advising
  • NACADA
• Importance of Liberal Arts
• How to develop a personal Philosophy of Advising
• Theories and Approaches of Advising including developmental advising

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