A useful general Advising Checklist from Missouri State University. May be used to formatively self-assess your advising.

Especially as we emphasize adding international and transfer students to our student body and thus our advising rosters, faculty may want to self-assess their cultural competence in advising. Try these 10 questions borrowed from mental health counselors recommended on page 1 of the NACADA Advising News by contributor Aaron H. Carlstrom of Kansas State University.

Including a component of career advising is very helpful to students even when we consider academic advising to be our focus. Check your Career Advising IQ with the items found on pages 14 and 15 in this NACADA Advising News contribution from Virginia Gordon of Ohio State University.

Could you use a guide for a productive conversation with your advisee?

• Try the Basic Topics for Advising Sessions from Missouri State University.
• Or peruse Truman’s Learning Outcomes for Undergraduate Academic Advising.
• Finally, consider asking your advisees about how they are balancing their time utilizing the Out-Of-Class Planning Map (pdf) from Student Affairs.

Keeping advising notes from each encounter with an advisee can help you conduct more efficient and substantive advising sessions. But what to write? Missouri State University posts these Guidelines for Advising Notes.

How do expectations for competency in advising change with faculty rank and tenure status? Western New Mexico University’s faculty committee crafted this developmental list in Message #531 from Tomorrow’s Professor.