The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal

The Penn State Adviser (2006, 3rd ed.), 85 pages, $20.00

Joyce B. Buck, Lynda Goldstein, Brent Hurley, John W. Moore, Marion Schwartz

The purposes of this award-winning monograph are to provide an orientation to academic advising for the new academic adviser, to suggest specific techniques to help initiate the new adviser, to refresh the experienced adviser, and to provide advising tips known to experienced advisers but not written down anywhere else.

Although written from a Penn State perspective, The Penn State Adviser is not a policies and procedures manual. Rather, this monograph discusses the practice of academic advising in general terms, offers a justification for these practices, and discusses in some detail the topics of most academic advising meetings.

Contents

The concept of shared responsibility
- The Top Three Challenges Encountered by New Advisers
What are the characteristics an adviser brings to the advising situation?
- American Higher Education as a Reflection of American Culture
Who is the student?
- Classification of Undergraduate Students
How do I prepare for the advising meeting?
- Communication Competencies in Academic Advising
How I do conduct the advising meeting?
How do I advise students about crafting their education?
- General Education in the Curriculum
How do I advise students who are choosing their major?
How do I advise students about planning their course schedules?
- Sample Schedules
- Strategies for Getting into Closed Courses
- Advising Transfer Students
How do I discuss careers with students?
- Opportunities through Internships
How do I help students reflect on their educations?
How do I read a degree audit?
How can I use information technology in academic advising?
- eLion: An Academic Advising and Information System
How do I refer students to others?
- A Guide to Referrals
- Students in Distress
- Civility
How do I advise students experiencing academic difficulty?
How do I advise students who want to be admitted or re-enrolled?
- Statement of Principles of Good Practice
- Marketing versus “The Truth” for Students
How do I advise students with disabilities?
- Summary of an Interview with a ... Student Who is Dyslexic
What records should I keep about the student and the advising meeting?
- Guidelines for Advisers
- Sample of a Division of Undergraduate Studies Student Interview Record
- Sample of Student Records Kept on a Networked Computer System
What and how can I communicate with others about students?
- Student Record Policy
- Sample Waiver Form
- Communicating with Students' Family Members
What is ethical behavior for an academic adviser?
- Principles of Ethical Advising
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