Download or read book The Role of Academic Advising in Working with Underprepared Community College Students written by Beth D. Bents and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges face many unique challenges when working with students, and the number of students testing into remedial level college courses is one of them. It has been suggested the relationship students have with their advisor can help these students to be successful at the college. The purpose of this study was to determine if students observed a connection between their success and the relationship they have with their advisor. This qualitative study focused on the view of current community college students who had been or were currently enrolled in a remedial course in a Midwestern community college. Students were asked to participate in an online survey that consisted of 12 questions. Once the survey results were collected, the responses were analyzed for common responses and trends. The results showed that the majority of students felt their advisor did play a role in their overall success, thoughts about how this happens still vary.
Download or read book Academic Advising and the First College Year written by Jenny R. Fox and published by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in partnership with NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising Academic advisors help students learn to make the most of their college years, not merely by completing requirements toward a degree but also by growing intellectually and developing all aspects of their identity. Yet, many professional and faculty advisors are new to academic advising and may feel ill-equipped to do more than help students register for classes. This new edited collection provides an overview of the theory and best practice undergirding advising today while exploring the transition challenges of a wide-range of first-year college students, including those attending two-year colleges, coming from underrepresented backgrounds, entering underprepared for college-level work, and/or experiencing academic failure.
Download or read book Academic Advising in the Community College written by Terry U. O'Banion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic advising is the second most important function in the community college. If it is not conducted with the utmost efficiency and effectiveness, the most important function in the college—instruction—will fail to achieve its purpose of ensuring that students succeed in navigating the curriculum to completion. The purpose of academic advising is to help students select a program of study to meet their life and vocational goals. As such, academic advising is a central and important activity in the process of education. Academic advising occurs at least once each term for every student in the college; few student support functions occur as often or affect so many students. But while there is general agreement concerning the importance of academic advising for the efficient functioning of the institution and the effective functioning of the student, there is little agreement regarding the nature of academic advising and who should perform the function. In this seminal work on academic advising, the authors of three overarching chapters address the key issues and challenges of academic advising followed by the authors of four of the most innovative and successful programs of academic advising in the nation.
Download or read book Academic Advising in the First Year of College written by Virginia N. Gordon and published by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in partnership with NACADA, The Global Community for Academic Advising As the focus on college completion and gainful employment intensifies, the stakes for students entering higher education and the institutions that serve them have never been higher. Yet, new students and their families may not understand the value of an educational plan for helping them stay on track and achieve their goals. They may have even less knowledge about how to create one. This brief guide focuses on the role of academic advisors in helping students chart a course for success and suggests how parents and family members can be partners in the journey. A glossary of key terms and list of frequently asked questions help demystify the college experience and highlight the many purposes of the academic advising relationship. A particularly useful resource for the families of first-generation college students and ideal for distribution at recruitment events, orientation, or parent and family programs. $2.00 each when purchased in multiple copy pack of 100.
Download or read book Beyond Foundations written by Thomas J. Grites and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpen advising expertise by exploring critical issues affecting the field Beyond Foundations, a core resource for experienced academic advisors, gives practitioners insight into important issues affecting academic advising. In addition to gaining understanding of foundational concepts and pressing concerns, master advisors engage with case studies to clarify their roles as educators of students, as thought leaders in institutions, and as advocates for the profession. Pillar documents—the NACADA Core Values, NACADA Concept of Academic Advising, and CAS Standards—serve as sources of both information and inspiration for those seeking to improve advising. New strategies inform advisors helping a diverse student population delineate meaningful educational goals. Each chapter prompts productive discussions with fellow advisors interested in cultivating advising excellence. To promote advisor influence in higher education, experienced contributors explain new trends—including the impact of external forces and legal issues on postsecondary institutions—and the evolution of advising as a profession and a field of inquiry. Expert insight and practical focus contribute to the development of experienced advisors. Use existing resources in new ways to master advising roles and encourage student success Apply theory to advance advising practice Create and optimize professional development opportunities Establish recognition for the contributions of academic advisors to the institution and higher education Face challenges created by the changing higher education landscape Advisors must meet the expectations of students, parents, faculty members, administrators, and outside agencies, all while navigating an increasingly complex range of issues presented by a student population unlike any that has come before. Beyond Foundations provides the insight and clarity advisors need to help students achieve their educational goals and to advance the field.
Download or read book Academic Advising Approaches written by Jayne K. Drake and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training on how to do so. Various advising strategies exist, each of which has its own proponents. To serve increasingly complex higher education institutions around the world and their diverse student cohorts, academic advisors must understand multiple advising approaches and adroitly adapt them to their own student populations. Academic Advising Approaches outlines a wide variety of proven advising practices and strategies that help students master the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career goals. This book embeds theoretical bases within practical explanations and examples advisors can use in answering fundamental questions such as: What will make me a more effective advisor? What can I do to enhance student success? What conversations do I need to initiate with my colleagues to improve my unit, campus, and profession? Linking theory with practice, Academic Advising Approaches provides an accessible reference useful to all who serve in an advising role. Based upon accepted theories within the social sciences and humanities, the approaches covered include those incorporating developmental, learning-centered, appreciative, proactive, strengths-based, Socratic, and hermeneutic advising as well as those featuring advising as teaching, motivational interviewing, self-authorship, and advising as coaching. All advocate relationship-building as a means to encourage students to take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress. This book serves as the practice-based companion to Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook, also from NACADA. Whereas the handbook addresses the concepts advisors and advising administrators need to know in order to build a success advising program, Academic Advising Approaches explains the delivery strategies successful advisors can use to help students make the most of their college experience.
Download or read book Working With Students in Community Colleges written by Lisa S. Kelsay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with This timely volume addresses the urgent need for new strategies and better ways to serve community colleges’ present and future students at a time of rapid diversification, not just racially and ethnically, but including such groups as the undocumented, international students, older adult learners and veterans, all of whom come with varied levels of academic and technical skillsThe contributing researchers, higher education faculty, college presidents, and community college administrators provide thorough understanding of student groups who have received scant attention in the higher education literature. They address the often unconscious barriers to access our institutions have erected and describe emerging strategies, frameworks, and pilot projects that can ease students’ transition into college and through the maze of the college experience to completion. They offer advice on organizational culture, on defining institutional outcomes, on aligning shifting demographics with the multiple missions of the community college, on strengthening the collaboration of student and academic affairs to leverage their respective roles and resources, and on engaging with the opportunities afforded by technology.Divided into three parts – understanding today’s community college campuses; supporting today’s community college learners; and specialized populations and communities – this book offers a vision and solutions that should inform the work of faculty, administrators, presidents, and board members.
Download or read book Advising the Academically Underprepared First year Community College Student Athlete for Transferability written by Kelly Leland Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student athletes attending and competing at a two-year community college often aspire to compete their last 2 years at a Division I four-year college or university. The impact of advising community college athletes can influence their ability to transfer to an NCAA Division I institution. Students intending to be Division I athletes after high school fall into one of two categories: qualifiers and non-qualifiers. Non-qualifiers can enroll in a community college with the hope of meeting NCAA criteria to transfer. Many of these student athletes enter community college underprepared for the rigors of higher education and, of particular importance to academic advisors in community colleges, are the students who are deemed to be of "academically underprepared" status. The process of taking remedial courses and graduating from a community college combined with meeting the demands of the new NCAA transfer guidelines needs to actively involve the academic advisor. Some first-year community college student athlete issues to consider are as follows: 1. How is the impact of academic advising affecting community college student athletes who aspire to transfer to NCAA Division I institutions? 2. How is the student athlete educated on transferability to NCAA institutions? 3. How is the student athlete being assured that academic advisors are knowledgeable of transfer guidelines to NCAA Division I institutions? ii The most important aspect of this study is the first-year community college student athlete. The student athlete carries the burden of producing "on and off the court," which entails not only being studious but also athletically successful. This study examined the experiences of academically underprepared first-year community college student athletes as well as their experiences related to transferability and NCAA Division I athletic programs. An increased awareness of transferability rules by the academic advising staff and the student athletes will only enhance the educational experience and involvement for the students. Data for this study consist of qualitative interviews from questions that were formulated and posed to academic advisors for student athletes, academically underprepared student athletes, the institution's coaching staff, and the athletic department personnel within a community college in Alabama. iii.
Download or read book Academic Advising written by Virginia N. Gordon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic advising. They explore the critical aspects of academic advising and provide insights for full-time advisors, counselors, and those who oversee student advising or have daily contact with advisors and students. New chapters on advising administration and collaboration with other campus services A new section on perspectives on advising including those of CEOs, CAOs (chief academic officers), and CSAOs (chief student affairs officers) More emphasis on two-year colleges and the importance of research to the future of academic advising New case studies demonstrate how advising practices have been put to use.
Download or read book Challenges and Institutional Support for Advisors of Academically Underprepared Students written by Megan C. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focused on the challenges academic advisors encounter when working with academically underprepared students and the institutional support provided to them. The challenges and institutional support were explored through the perspective of 142 advisors, who were members of the First-Generation College Student Advising and the Probation, Dismissal, and Reinstatement distribution lists of the National Academic Advising Association. The study aligned with prior research on academic advising in general and revealed that few academic advisors of underprepared students received specialized training to prepare them for their work with underprepared students, that academic advisors need more institutional support, specifically more funding and more advisors to work with academically underprepared students, and that the most important characteristics of the advisor-advisee relationship are that the relationship be ongoing and purposeful. In light of the growing number of academically underprepared students entering colleges and universities and the central role of advising for their success, it is necessary to better understand challenges facing advisors of academically underprepared students and the resources necessary to those advisors that help them be effective at their jobs to foster students' growth and development.
Download or read book Underprepared Community College Students written by Kathryn Claire King and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Whose Interests written by Lisa Ann Haston and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Academic Advising The Five Step Process of Purposeful Advising written by Jeffrey Hoffman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advising Community College Students written by Julia Panke Makela and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community college advising and counseling practitioners provide a productive setting for establishing a positive tone for self and academic discovery, while assisting students in finding their place within higher education. This brief compares current advising strategies for under-prepared students or students with low college readiness. One of the earliest, most referenced, and often controversial advising strategies for underprepared students employed by community college student services advisors and counselors is what Burton Clark in 1960 termed "cooling-out." This five-step process involves pre-entrance testing, counseling interviews at the beginning of the semester, mandatory orientation to college courses, improvement notices for students doing unsatisfactory work, and finally probation for those who cannot maintain minimum grades. Clark concluded that this is a process in which a student "does not fail, but rectifies a mistake." The author of this brief locates several parallels between "cooling out" to such modern career advising strategies as Cognitive Information Processing (CIP). CIP fundamentally breaks academic and career decisions down into three categories: gaining knowledge, making decisions, and understanding career thoughts. The author notes that in recent years, many community colleges have tried to both maintain standards of higher education and decrease the stigma associated with remedial education The word "remedial" has often been replaced with "developmental," reflecting the community college's view of these courses--a temporary stage of learning. Studies indicate that reframing remedial classes may cause considerable confusion in students grasping the full implications of their course decisions, and this may suggest that advising strategies with a basis in soft language that hides the true nature of remediation may cause more harm than good to students. Such pitfalls may enable advisors and counselors to reshape their strategies for maximum effectiveness. Particularly important will be clarifying techniques and goals, increasing the transparency of the advising process, and closely tying advising efforts to learning opportunities that continuously serve students throughout their community college experience. (Contains 1 table.).
Download or read book Differentiated Academic Advising Strategies for Students Beyond the Margins written by Valerie Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated Academic Advising Strategies for Students Beyond the Margins features the voices of current scholars and practitioners who articulate culturally responsive academic advising strategies that expand traditional academic advising practices. The chapter authors encourage higher education practitioners to situate their work within the unique and diverse needs of their students for the purpose of truly and authentically supporting the whole student. Additionally, this volume highlights new and innovative scholarship centering on the needs of diverse students.
Download or read book The New Advisor Guidebook written by Pat Folsom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exciting time to be an academic advisor—a time in which global recognition of the importance of advising is growing, research affirms the critical role advising plays in student success, and institutions of higher education increasingly view advising as integral to their missions and essential for improving the quality of students' educational experiences. It is essential that advisors provide knowledgeable, realistic counsel to the students in their charge. The New Advisor Guidebook helps advisors meet this challenge. The first and final chapters of the book identify the knowledge and skills advisors must master. These chapters present frameworks for setting and benchmarking self-development goals and for creating self-development plans. Each of the chapters in between focuses on foundational content: the basic terms, concepts, information, and skills advisors must learn in their first year and upon which they will build over the lengths of their careers. These chapters include strategies, questions, guidelines, examples, and case studies that give advisors the tools to apply this content in their work with students, from demonstrations of how student development theories might play out in advising sessions to questions advisors can ask to become aware of their biases and avoid making assumptions about students to a checklist for improving listening, interviewing, and referral skills. The book covers various ways in which advising is delivered: one-to-one, in groups, and online. The New Advisor Guidebook serves as an introduction to what advisors must know to do their jobs effectively. It pairs with Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College, also from NACADA, which presents the delivery strategies successful advisors can use to help students make the most of their college experience.
Download or read book Academic Advising written by Terry U. O'Banion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading specialists in academic advising describe five programs that have been judged by a national panel as among the most outstanding or exemplary in the country. Also includes an updated version of the original 1972 "O'Banion model" and data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement.
