Academic Advisor Assignment

All degree-seeking students are required to meet with an academic advisor for course schedule approval each academic semester. Non-degree students who are taking courses with prerequisites need to meet with an advisor in the Learning Center. 

Faculty Advising Students with a declared major will generally be assigned to a full-time faculty member who is most closely aligned to their fields of interest. Individual advisors determine appropriate modes of advising delivery. Some faculty members set up group advising while others may exclusively use individual advising sessions. Career and Technical field advisors work closely with their advisees in the classroom so they know them well. In AA and AS transfer programs, advisors may rarely see the student, so building rapport is more essential during advising sessions.

Learning Center Advising Students who receive their academic advising through the Learning Center include those designated as undeclared, undecided, non-degree or general. The assigned professional advisor generally works with these students until they declare a major, and they are then asked to transfer to a faculty advisor. Special advising situations involving disabilities, transfer, foreign students, CTE retention, and Running Start may call for collaboration with regular faculty advisors or even an ongoing assignment to a Learning Center advisor. Also, Learning Center advisors substitute for regular faculty advisors during breaks and the summer when faculty are not available, and at times they serve as  backup in case the faculty advisor cannot be contacted in a timely fashion during the academic year. Counselors and professional advisors and have access to all student transcripts for this purpose and can unblock and register any student but prefer that assigned advisors do so if at all possible.