KEY ADVISING POLICY QUESTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED BY DEPARTMENTS

A. What are the departmental goals and the desired scope for its advising program? (e.g., academic advising only or, in addition, post-graduate, university administrative rules, and other advising categories)

B. Formal, written policies and procedures or informal, residing in "organizational memory"?

C. Mandatory, required, or urged?

D. If mandatory, what enforcement means?

E. Frequency of meetings with advisors?

F. How to communicate advising policies and procedures to students?

G. Dissemination of advising information to students by what means other than in-person advising?

H. All faculty advise, a selected few, only the Chair?

I. Establishment of advising specialties? (e.g., GE, career, post-graduate, etc.)J. Inclusion of GE advising?

K. How to establish and maintain advisor competency?

L. Training of advisors to use the University Student Information System?

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