The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal

Are advisers too connected to their students? (March 2007: 11 responses)
Are faculty abdicating their advising responsibilities? (September 2006: 3 responses)
Are large advising rosters unethical? (February 2007: 2 responses)
Are sophomores our undergraduate orphans? (February 2006: no responses)
Are there generation gaps in academic advising? (November 2007: 5 responses)
Are undecided/exploratory students really all that “undecided”? (October 2002: 4 responses)
Are you concerned about being sued for misadvising (real or perceived)? (January 2005: 2 responses)
Are you a “helicopter adviser”? (December 2005: 5 responses)
Can academic advising truly be part of the promotion and tenure process? (May 1999: 2 responses)
Can students and advisers be friends? (January 1999: 3 responses)
Can undergraduate students really be “peer advisers?” (November 2001: 5 responses)
Case study #1: What should you do about this letter from a troubled student? (May 2000: 5 responses)
Case study #2: How would you help this student who's ready to give up? (June 2000: 3 responses)
Case study #3: How would you help this student who's up against a department head? (July 2000: 3 responses)
Case study #4: He said/she said/you said? (August 2000: 3 responses)
Case study #5: What do you do about Barry? (September 2000: 8 responses)
Case study #6: Students' rights, parents' needs, and advisers' reputations: A conflict of interests? (October 2000: 1 response)
Case study #7: Who's fooling whom? (April 2002: 11 responses)
Case study #8: Assisting students or assisting retention? (May 2002: 5 responses)
Case study #9: Who gets the extra semester? (June 2002: 4 responses)
Case study #10: A case of sexual misconduct? (July 2002: 1 response)
Case study #11: A secret advising error (August 2002: 3 responses)
Case study #12: An unprofessional, though not unethical, request (September 2002: 2 responses)
Case study #13: A case of academic dishonesty discovered (January 2004: 4 responses)
Case study #14: The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the dad (February 2004: 1 response)
Case study #15: The case of the quiet salesman (March 2004: 4 responses)
Case study #16: The case of the pricey liberal arts degree (April 2004: 4 responses)
Case study #17: A case of family dynamics (May 2004: 7 responses)
Case study #18: A case of what's fair and what's not (June 2004: 2 responses)
Case study #19: Judging a Facebook by its cover (January 2008: 5 responses)
Case study #20: Drink, drank, not drunk (February 2008: 3 responses)
Case study #21: A case of Mrs. identification (March 2008: 8 responses)
Case study #22: A lifting encounter (April 2008: 2 responses)
Case study #23: A surprise visit (May 2008: 3 responses)
Case study #24: Whose report is it anyway? (June 2008: 3 responses)
Do professional academic advisers need college degrees? (October 2006: 13 responses)
Do professional advisers need a union? (December 2002: 2 responses)
Do you have a personal/professional mission statement? (August 2004: 1 response)
Do you really treat all students equally? (October 2004: 6 responses)
Does information technology keep students away from advisers? (March 1999: 9 responses)
How are this year's first-year students different from students five to ten years ago? (August 2005; 3 responses)
How can advisers “connect” with faculty? (August 2001: 1 response)
How do I learn about disciplines and courses other than my own? (February 2002: 7 responses)
How do you advise reluctant students? (February 2005: 5 responses)
How do you advise students about changing their plans? (August 2003: 2 responses)
How do you advise students in crisis? (June 2007: 5 responses)
How do you advise students at a distance? (March 2002: 5 responses)
How do you advise students online? (March 2006: 11 responses)
How do you advise the “younger generation”? (July 2007: 3 responses)
How do you avoid adviser burnout? (November 2003: 3 responses)
How do you define who an adviser is? (July 1999: 6 responses)
How do you handle “helicopter parents”? (April 2003: 2 responses)
How do you know you're doing a good job of advising? (September 2004: 7 responses)
How do you make ethical decisions? (July 2004: 1 response)
How do you motivate your advisees? (May 2007: 4 responses)
How do you plan to improve your advising? (September/October 2003: 1 response)
How do you use your discipline in advising? (February 1999: 4 responses)
How does someone prepare to become a professional academic adviser? (November 1999: 4 responses)
How has e-mail changed the way you do advising? (July 2001: 5 responses)
How is advising affected when more and more paper documents are being replaced by Web-only versions? (October 1999: 5 responses)
How is technology affecting academic advising? (January 2002: 4 responses)
How many advisees are too many? (April 2001: 4 responses)
How much advising is too much? (March 2001: 3 responses)
How should advising be assessed? (March 2003: 1 response)
How will advising change in the new millenium? (January 2001: 1 response)
How would you describe academic advising to an advisee, a person interested in becoming an academic adviser, and your best friend? (July 2008: 2 responses)
If prescriptive advising is so bad, why do advisers use it so much? (May 2006: 5 responses)
If students are our “customers,” then why don't we just give them what they want? (November 2006: 14 responses)
Is academic advising a “service”? (November 2002: 7 responses)
Is academic advising underfunded? (January 2003: 6 responses)
Is advising a profession? (June 1999: 3 responses)
Is it appropriate to accept gifts from advisees and/or their parents? (June 2003: 3 responses)
Is it appropriate for advisers to participate in social networking Web sites? (July 2006: 11 responses)
Is it appropriate to share personal information with advisees? (December 2003: 4 responses)
Is it unethical for advisers to make recommendations concerning specific courses or instructors? (May 2003: 13 responses)
Is more research needed in advising? (February 2001: 3 responses)
Should academic advisers advise high school students? (August 2007: 8 responses)
Should an adviser be able to “fire” an advisee? (October 2005: 7 responses)
Should an adviser ever advise a student against choosing a particular major? (August 2006: 5 responses)
Should advisers avoid all physical contact with their advisees? (December 2006: 6 responses)
Should advisers bribe their advisees? (December 2007: 8 responses)
Should advisers correct their advisees? (April 2007: 9 responses)
Should advisers get “report cards”? (March 2005: 5 responses)
Should advisers keep their offices free of all potentially offensive material? (November 2005: 5 responses)
Should advisers teach first-year seminars for their advisees? (June 2006: 8 responses)
Should advising be mandatory? (April 1999: 8 responses)
Should professional academic advisers be licensed? (June 2001: 1 response)
Should students be matched with advisers who are like them? (April 2005: 5 responses)
Should we advise our students not to look for fulfillment in their careers? (November 2004: 14 responses)
Should we grant tenure to professional academic advisers? (April 2000: 4 responses)
What are the pros and cons of being an academic adviser? (May 2001: 2 responses)
What books have made an impact on the way you advise? (July 2003: 2 responses)
What do experienced advisers know about advising that new advisers might not know? (September 1999: 12 responses)
What do you think students want from advisers? (December 1999: 4 responses)
What impact do you think the recent terrorism will have on students in the long run? (October 2001: 1 response)
What is the adviser's role in explaining general education? (December 2000: 3 responses)
What is the adviser's role/responsibility in resolving errors? (August 1999: 7 responses)
What is the relationship between advising and retention? (September 2001: 4 responses)
What is the role of humor in advising? (January 2000: 3 responses)
What is the role of spirituality in advising? (February 2000: 4 responses)
What is the value of academic advising? (September 2007: 2 responses)
What New Year's advising resolutions have you made? (January 2006: no responses)
What questions do you ask? What stories do you tell? (February 2003: 7 responses)
What role do your personal values play in your advising? (July 2005: 2 responses)
What role should advisers play in helping students develop a meaningful philosophy of life? (December 2004: 3 responses)
What role should advisers play in recruiting new students? (September 2005: 4 responses)
What role should advisers play in regard to academic honesty/integrity? (May 2005: 3 responses)
What's the best way to train new advisers? (December 2001: 3 responses)
What's the difference between academic advising and career counseling? (April 2006: 6 responses)
What's your favorite quote about advice or advising? (June 2005: 8 responses)
Who should advise juniors and seniors? (October 2007: 4 responses)
Why are men underrepresented in academic advising? (January 2007: 9 responses)
Why are we seeing an increase in the number of professional advisers in academic departments where previously all advising had been done by faculty? (November 2000: 8 responses)
Why do we need theories of advising? (March 2000: 10 responses)