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Dino Mujakovic
Issue date: 2/15/07 Section: News
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With the collaboration of the National Association of Academic Advisors (NACADA) and Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS), Lakeland College's Academic Advising committee came up with an updated mission statement. The statement states that "Lakeland College advising is a collaborative process based on the belief that each individual is capable of lifelong success. Advisors guide the academic and personal development of students as they discover, clarify, and work towards their educational and life goals."
Lakeland College considers academic advising second in importance only to classroom teaching. As a result of that, the advising committee worked on reworking their goals and expectations for advisors and advisees through the past semester. The updated mission statement was approved by the faculty on April 20, 2007.
"A couple of years ago the faculty and staff came together and did brainstorming about academic advising and we tried to have different groups of people identify what are the two most important things we need to work on and one that was the most repeated was we are not sure what is exactly expected as an advisor," Suzanne House, director of academic advising, said.
Usually in the second year, students are assigned an advisor in their major field of study. New advisors go through training where House talks to them about advising, curriculum and registration. After that, they are on their own.
"We talked a lot about the wording in the statement. That's why the first sentence is so important because we believe students can succeed. They can succeed academically and they can succeed in life," House said.
In the past, teaching evaluations have been filled out on a professor but there was a shortage of information provided about the advising of the advisors.
Recently, students received surveys asking questions about their advisor. The Academic Advising committee took those questions to match what is expected of advisors, such as if the advisor knows the requirements for graduation, in the general studies as in the major field of study.
Lakeland College considers academic advising second in importance only to classroom teaching. As a result of that, the advising committee worked on reworking their goals and expectations for advisors and advisees through the past semester. The updated mission statement was approved by the faculty on April 20, 2007.
"A couple of years ago the faculty and staff came together and did brainstorming about academic advising and we tried to have different groups of people identify what are the two most important things we need to work on and one that was the most repeated was we are not sure what is exactly expected as an advisor," Suzanne House, director of academic advising, said.
Usually in the second year, students are assigned an advisor in their major field of study. New advisors go through training where House talks to them about advising, curriculum and registration. After that, they are on their own.
"We talked a lot about the wording in the statement. That's why the first sentence is so important because we believe students can succeed. They can succeed academically and they can succeed in life," House said.
In the past, teaching evaluations have been filled out on a professor but there was a shortage of information provided about the advising of the advisors.
Recently, students received surveys asking questions about their advisor. The Academic Advising committee took those questions to match what is expected of advisors, such as if the advisor knows the requirements for graduation, in the general studies as in the major field of study.
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