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Student and Advisor Responsibilities
Understanding what your responsibilities are helps you be more successful in college.
- Schedule regular appointments or make regular contact with your advisor during each semester
- Come prepared to each appointment with questions or material for discussion
- Be an active learner by participating fully in the advising experience
- Ask questions if you do not understand an issue or have a specific concern
- Keep a personal record of your progress toward meeting your goals
- Organize official documents in a way that enables you to access them when needed
- Complete all assignments or recommendations from your advisor
- Gather all relevant decision-making information
- Clarify personal values and goals and provide advisor with accurate information regarding your interests and abilities
- Become knowledgeable about college programs, policies, and procedures
- Accept responsibility for decisions
- Understand and effectively communicate the curriculum, graduation requirements, and university and college policies and procedures
- Encourage and guide students as they define and develop realistic goals
- Encourage and support students as they gain the skills to develop clear and attainable educational plans
- Provide students with information about and strategies for utilizing the available resources and services on campus
- Assist students in understanding the purposes and goals of higher education and its effects on their lives and personal goals
- Monitor and accurately document students’ progress toward meeting their goals
- Be accessible to advisees via office hours for advising, telephone, or email
- Assist students in gaining decision making skills and assuming responsibility for their own educational plans and achievements
- Maintain confidentiality
- Assist students in working closely with their professors and faculty advisors
