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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Virginia N. Gordon is assistant dean emeritus and adjunct associate professor at The Ohio State University. She is author of Career Advising from Jossey-Bass
Wesley R. Habley directs the American College Testing (ACT) Center for the Enhancement of Educational Practices in Iowa City, Iowa
Thomas J. Grites is assistant to provost at the Richard Stockton of New Jersey in Pomona, New Jersey
Table of Contents
Preface | p. ix |
Foreword | p. xi |
The Authors | p. xiii |
Part 1 Foundations of Academic Advising | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Historical Foundations of Academic Advising | p. 3 |
2 Theoretical Foundations of Academic Advising | p. 17 |
3 Ethical Foundations of Academic Advising | p. 36 |
4 Legal Foundations of Academic Advising | p. 50 |
5 Advising for Student Success | p. 68 |
6 Advising as Teaching and Learning | p. 85 |
7 Advising for Career and Life Planning | p. 103 |
Part 2 Student Diversity and Student Needs | p. 119 |
8 The Changing College Student | p. 123 |
9 Moving into College | p. 142 |
10 Moving through College | p. 157 |
11 Moving on from College | p. 178 |
12 Students with Specific Advising Needs | p. 189 |
13 Advising Students of Color and International Students | p. 204 |
Part 3 Organization and Delivery of Advising Services | p. 227 |
14 Vision, Mission, Goals, and Program Objectives for Academic Advising Programs | p. 229 |
15 Organization of Academic Advising Services | p. 242 |
16 Advising Delivery: Faculty Advising | p. 253 |
17 Advising Delivery: Professional Advisors, Counselors, and Other Staff | p. 267 |
18 Advising Delivery: Group Strategies | p. 279 |
19 Advising Delivery: Using Technology | p. 292 |
Part 4 Training, Assessment, Recognition, and Reward | p. 307 |
Introduction | p. 307 |
20 Critical Concepts in Advisor Training and Development | p. 309 |
21 Tools and Resources for Advisors | p. 323 |
22 Delivering One-to-One Advising: Skills and Competencies | p. 342 |
23 Assessing Student Learning | p. 356 |
24 Assessing Advisor Effectiveness | p. 369 |
25 Assessing the Effectiveness of the Advising Program | p. 386 |
26 Recognition and Reward for Academic Advising in Theory and in Practice | p. 396 |
Part 5 Perspectives on Advising | p. 413 |
Introduction | p. 413 |
27 Campus Administrator Perspectives on Advising | p. 415 |
28 Advising Administrator Perspectives on Advising | p. 438 |
29 Perspectives on the Future of Academic Advising | p. 456 |
Part 6 Exemplary Practices in Academic Advising | p. 473 |
Appendix A National Academic Advising Association | p. 521 |
Concept of Academic Advising | p. 523 |
Appendix B The Statement of Core Values of Academic Advising | p. 525 |
Appendix C Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising | p. 533 |
Name Index | p. 547 |
Subject Index | p. 555 |