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Working Smarter: Leveraging Digital Tools for Student Advising

The Scholarly Teacher

Academic advising is complex and multifaceted, and yet many faculty advise without much training. Navigating technology can be a very challenging aspect of academic advising. Consider if written documentation is needed for policy purposes or even simply as a point of reference for the student.

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A Registrar’s View: Will You Graduate?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the current moment, many of my colleagues are on the front-line combing through records and various document management systems looking for the answer to whether students completed their degree requirements — did they graduate? All institutions of higher learning have the source of truth in the form of an academic catalog or bulletin.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The students’ volunteer work translating documents for Proyecto Inmigrante has a value of over $100,000 (when compared to what translation services charge). CCST also works with their students’ institutions to co-advise the young adults, Palacios says. Also, internships—both paid and non-paid—have been established with Mary Kay, Inc.,

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Micro-internship gives students experience without barriers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Additionally, a professional academic adviser, or a “success adviser,” partners with each student during their time at Goucher. Measures of success: To measure the efficiency and engagement of the micro-internships, students take pre-internship and post-internship surveys and complete a reflection document.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Our data affirm the well-documented decline of the humanities academic job market over the previous decade, revealing that the number of assistant professors at Ph.D.-granting Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center.

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Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division

EAB

Blogs Implementing a caseload management model in a newly centralized division August 9, 2023 Melissa Grant Associate Dean of Advisement, Office of the Provost, Pace University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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OSU Cascades integrates equitable career readiness

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The class, which started as a pilot in fall 2022, helps students create an action plan and a mission statement to guide their academic career, Garland explains. Both the statement and plan can change as a student explores major and career opportunities, but as tools for students and advising personnel, the documents guide choices.