Roles & Responsibilities
Students
- Become familiar with the Career Center and other campus resources
- Become knowledgeable of all graduation requirements and adhere to institutional policies, procedures, and deadlines
- Communicate your personal values, abilities, interests, and goals with your advisor
- Communicate with your advisor when you are struggling or facing challenges for appropriate campus or community referrals
- Follow through on actions identified during each advising session
- Schedule and attend advising sessions each semester prior to course registration
Advisors
- Assist students in creating an academic plan consistent with their abilities, interests, and goals
- Assist students in monitoring and evaluating their educational progress
- Discuss relationships between academic program and career and support students in identifying career opportunities with assistance from the Career Center
- Educate students on graduation requirements and institutional policies, procedures, and resources applicable to student needs
- Monitor designated educational transactions, e.g., course selection, changes of major, graduation requirements, etc.
- Provide holistic student advising and release advising codes needed for registration
Note: Roles and responsibilities may differ depending on department, college or major
