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The Mentor articles listed below have been reformatted so that they can be read on a variety of portable devices.
To download an e-text article, right-click on the link below and save the file to your PC; then use whatever method is appropriate for your specific portable device to copy/convert the file to that device.
Important update: Effective September 4, 2009, the format of the e-texts below has been changed from .prc (a format for Palm OS devices) to .txt (a format that can be read directly by, or converted to, a wider variety of portable devices).
- The Advent of Academic Advising in America at the Johns Hopkins University
Matthew R. White and Pororchista Khakpour (October 25, 2006)
- Advising: A Personal Statement
Ernst Schoen-Rene, California State University, Chico (January 15, 2002)
- An Alternative to the Developmental Theory of Advising
Marc Lowenstein, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (November 22, 1999)
- A Chronology of Academic Advising in America
Sandra Cook, San Diego State University (May 28, 1999)
- Describe your most memorable advisee and tell what you learned from him/her and how it affected you.
Evelyn Beck, Piedmont Technical College (February 1, 2008)
- Describe your relationship with an advisee that best illustrates your philosophy of advising.
Frances Northcutt, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (February 3, 2005)
- Developmental Advising: A Practical View
William G. Hendey, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (January 20, 1999)
- Drawing from your formal education, how do you use your discipline(s) not only in your own advising but also in collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines in their work as advisers?
Elizabeth Boretz, University of California, Merced (February 1, 2006)
- Expanding the Prescriptive-Developmental Advising Continuum: Using Social Constructivism as an Advising Approach for Students from High Relational Groups
Michael Kirk-Kuwaye and Niki Libarios, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (December 5, 2003)
- How do you know that you have made a difference in the education of your advisees?
Steven Estes, Northern Illinois University (February 1, 2007)
- How to Write a Letter of Recommendation (a Muse piece)
George Felton, Columbus College of Art & Design (September 15, 2005)
- Informing and Turning: Two Approaches to General Education
R. Scott Kretchmar, The Pennsylvania State University (November 24, 2004)
- Integrative Theory of Academic Advising: A Proposition
Matthew Church, University of Louisville (June 15, 2005)
- The Power of Good Advice for Students
Richard J. Light, Harvard University (May 1, 2001)
- Students' Civil Rights
Paula Knudsen, American Civil Liberties Union (March 30, 2005)
- What Can and Should We Do with E-mail?
Wesley Lipschultz, The Pennsylvania State University (January 1, 1999)
- Why do we need theories of advising?
Advising Forum topic and readers' responses from March 2000
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