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“Academic Advising and the 'Logic' of the Curriculum”  This is a nice follow-up to Lowenstein's previous article on academically centered advising. The direction that Lowenstein is advocating for academic advising makes a lot of sense to me. I have felt for some time that academic advising has been becoming less and less academic and more and more concerned with affective matters – the adviser qua personal counselor. But it has seemed to me that the academic adviser is positioned like no one else at the university to help students give context and substance and cohesion to the overall experience. The danger is always that students will take lists of courses, will complete lists of requirements that often appear discrete and arbitrary. Who, if not the academic adviser, will help the students to make connections, to discover implicit design, to create a larger meaning for disparate experiences ... ? William G. Hendey, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, May 1, 2000  Back to the article
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