There are six advisors in the Academic Advising Center (See Figure 3). Each student will have an advising team that will be composed of a Success Coach, an Academic Advisor, and a Faculty Mentor. A Faculty Advising Liaison will be responsible for fostering communication and collaboration between Academic Advising and each academic department.
A Success Coach is a professional advisor that will be responsible for monitoring the persistence, retention and graduation rates for a cohort of students (first-time, full-time students). Through UNV 101, individual meetings, small groups, interventions, workshops, and seminars. Success Coaches will be responsible for ensuring that all cognitive, metacognitive, and social factors affecting retention and success are addressed from freshman to senior year. Coaches will also ensure that all students are properly progressing in their career and professional school pathways.
Figure 1 3:1 Advising Team Model
The Academic Advisor is a professional advisor that will be responsible for assisting students with academic planning and registration, graduation applications, course substitutions and transcript evaluations. The Academic Advisor will work closely with the Faculty Advising Liaison to implement initiatives aimed at improving retention and graduate rates within designated academic departments.
Figure 2 Academic Advising and Academic Department Relationship
In collaboration with the Department
Advising Liaison, Faculty Mentors will
be responsible for preparing students for graduate and professional schools and careers. Chairs will select one faculty mentor for each academic program in each department.
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