I have served as an undergraduate advisor in the School of Business Administration since 1996. For the last four years, I have served as the head of the advising office, now called the Office of Undergraduate Student Services. Currently, I am responsible for four full-time and two part-time employees, along with several student workers as well. Even though we have more than 3,000 undergraduate business students, up from approximately 1,700 in 1997 when there were two full-time advisors, we meet with each student at least once during each semester and maintain complete files on every one. With this huge increase in enrollment, we continue to work to ensure that we provide all students with individual and time-effective advising.

My goals for the Office of Undergraduate Student Services are to provide our students is to continuously improve our service and effectiveness, to help our students get the most they can from their courses and curriculum, to place a priority on course choices that maximize the quality of all students' educational experience, and to always demonstrate the prudent stewardship of our resources. I want to always set our students up to succeed, but when some occasionally fail I want to help those students find success in that failure as well. If we take a holistic approach to academic advising while not compromising the accreditation standards the sum total will result in a successful student.