Academic Advising

The following resources are online or available at Pickler Memorial Library.

Berg-Kolin, Helene. “The majors fair: Helping college students decide on majors.”  ERIC document available online: Access E-Subscribe. Select Search, then Express Search and copy and paste this number into the search box to access full text: ED458486
”The Majors Fair is a campus event that showcases academic departments and programs for undergraduate college students deciding majors and minors. Including elements of career. Including elements of career counseling, academic advising, and peer mentoring, the purpose of the Majors Fair is to provide information needed for decision making through easy access to faculty, staff, advisors, and committed students.” ERIC

Erickson, Bette LaSere, and Strommer, Diane Weltner. Teaching College Freshman. Jossey-Bass, 1991. General Collection LB 2331 E76 1991.
Chapter 12: "Advising and Mentoring as Teaching Opportunities," pp. 179-197.

Frost, Susan H.  Academic advising for student success: A system of shared responsibility. George Washington University, 1991. General Collection LB 2343 F76 1991.

Gordon, Virginia N.  Handbook of academic advising. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. General Collection LB 2343 G638 1992.

Gordon, Virginia N.  The undecided college student: An academic and career advising challenge. Springfield, IL: C.C. Thomas, 1995. General Collection LB 2343 .G64 1995.

(to the top)

Helm, Edward, Sedlacek, William and Dario Prieto.  “Career advising issues for entering African-American students. Research Report #2-97." May 1998. ERIC document available online: Access E-Subscribe. Select Search, then Express Search and copy and paste this number into the search box to access full text: ED414792
“A study of 343 African-American university freshmen showed interest in various career issues useful to advisors. Students most often reported attending college for job-related reasons, with males more likely than females to leave college to take a job. However, females were less sure of getting a job after graduation. A career advising model based on noncognitive variables is discussed.” ERIC

Kadar, Riva S.  “A counseling liaison model of academic advising.” Journal of College Counseling 4.2 (2001): 174-178. Link to article.
“Examines an alternative method of academic advising in the United States. Utilization of the model to increase the retention and graduation rates of students; Role of counseling liaison in the development of rapport between the counselor and students; Recommendations for counseling liaisons to be effective”. EBSCOhost

Mahoney, John.  “Higher education in dangerous times: Will technology really improve the university?” Journal of College Admission 161 (1998): 24-30. Periodicals LB 2351.2 A822
“States that cost-control and efficiency initiatives will continue to be directed at higher education. Suggests that rather than focusing on technology it might be wiser to focus on attaining the highest standards in teaching, innovative learning opportunities, academic advising, and student-development services throughout the nation's colleges and universities.” ERIC

Reinarz, Alice G., and White, Eric R.  Teaching through Academic Advising: A Faculty Perspective. Jossey-Bass, 1995. General Collection LB 2343 T42 1995.
Includes: Educating the whole person; Faculty speak to advising; Advising special populations of students; Advising in the Arts; Social Science advising, The role of faculty advising in science and engineering; Advising women considering nontraditional fields of study.

Light, Richard J.  “The power of good advice for students.”  Chronicle of Higher Education.  2 March 2001: B11-B12. Link to article.
“Deals with the issue of good academic advising for college students. Resources for advising; Recommendations about good advising; Role of advisers.” EBSCOhost

Santa Rita, Emilio.  “Educational advising for student retention.” 1992, 99 pp. ERIC Document. Microfiche D360020
”Drawing from the literature and research on educational advising and student retention, this handbook provides practical guidelines on advising students...Part 1 deals with providing information to different categories of students, including returning, entering, freshmen, English-as-a-second-language, international, undecided, change of major, transfer, part-time, and probationary students. Part 2 suggests ways of helping students cope with 19 different academic problems. Part 3 deals with 15 categories of difficulties encountered in the course of making a decision about a career. Part 4 reviews seven ways of responding to students who come for advisement. Finally, part 5 outlines the method of making an effective referral and summarizes referral skills. Each section concludes with case studies and specific recommendations." ERIC

(to the top)

Shultz, Eileen L. Colton, George M. and Cynthia Colton.  “The Adventor Program: Advisement and mentoring for students of color in higher education.” Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development. 40.2 (2001): 208-218. Periodicals LB 1715 .S7914
“To promote the academic success of and to retain students of color, the College of Education at Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, has designed and implemented the Adventor Program, an intervention initiative fusing academic advising and mentoring into a proactive model. The program's rationale and the pilot year's findings are presented.” ERIC

Templeton, Rosalyn Anstine, Johnson, Celia E. and Jobie L. Skaggs. “Examining faculty’s perceptions of sudent advising to improve learning environments.” Dec. 2002. ERIC document available online: Access E-Subscribe. Select Search, then Express Search and copy and paste this number into the search box to access full text: ED465354.
“Influenced by Carnegie Academy Campus Program conversations, faculty (n=71) advising responsibilities and attitudes were explored at a midsize, comprehensive, private university. As part of an effort to improve student learning, the primarily quantitative Student Advising Survey was used to establish advising patterns. The survey found that faculty spent an average of 36.71 hours each semester advising an average of 29.14 students. A significant number of students do not seek out advising from their assigned advisers, and the majority of respondents advised students not assigned to them.” ERIC

Tuttle, Kathryn Nemath.  “Academic advising.”  Understanding the Work and Career Paths of Midlevel Administrators, Ed. Linda K. Johnsrud and Vicki J. Rosser. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. 15-24. General Collection LB 2341 .U53 2000

Winston, Roger B. Jr.  Developmental academic advising. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984. General Collection LB 2343 D42 1984.
See Part 2: "The advising process: Strategies and clientele," pp. 119-314.

(to the top)
 

Yarbrough, David.  "The engagement model for effective academic advising with undergraduate college students and student organizations." Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development. 41.1 (2002): 61-68. Link to article.
”Discusses the effectiveness of an engagement model to undergraduate college student academic advising. Design of engagement model for academic advising; Validity of the engagement approach; Advantages of the engagement model.” EBSCOhost

Compiled by Lisa Glaubitz
Pickler Memorial Library