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Academic Information
DUS supports the University's academic advising programs through the coordination, development, and dissemination of up-to-date information about academic programs, policies, and procedures.
DUS serves the University and the wider higher-education community to enhance the practice of academic advising and to communicate academic advising information. A network of DUS staff across the Penn State campuses carries out the program's strategies. The network comprises coordinators in the University Park colleges and at the campuses/colleges throughout the Commonwealth, as well as teams of coordinators, advisers, and directors that collaborate on intercampus/intercollege projects.
Objective 1: Enhance the practice of academic advising.
Strategies:
- Coordinate or support the academic advising and information center for the college or campus.
- Provide professional development for academic advisers.
- Coordinate DUS conferences.
- Develop and deliver advising workshops for faculty and professional advisers.
- Train First-Year Testing, Consulting, and Advising Program (FTCAP) advisers.
- Publish The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal.
- Manage the Center for Excellence in Academic Advising, an electronic resource for academic advisers.
- Publish and distribute The Penn State Adviser, a monograph for faculty advisers.
- Develop eLion applications for advisers.
- Develop eLion advising applications for students.
- Assess academic advising.
- Consult on the design, delivery, and evaluation of advising systems.
- Inform the profession through national and regional conference participation, publications, and leadership positions in national and regional organizations.
Objective 2: Communicate academic advising information.
Strategies:
- Develop and participate in academic information programs for students.
- Serve as academic resource and referral contacts for academic advisers and students.
- Coordinate and/or participate in college/campus admissions activities.
- Collaborate with college/campus academic administrators, division/department heads, faculty, and professional advisers to create and disseminate academic information for internal and external audiences.
- Maintain Advising @ PSU.
- Maintain Web sites for the college or the advising center.
- Develop resource materials to be used in First-Year Testing, Consulting, and Advising Program (FTCAP).
- Develop curriculum guides.
- Coordinate listservs.
- Articulate policies and procedures through the University Undergraduate Advising Handbook.
- Publish curricular changes through Advising Updates.
- Serve on college and University committees.
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