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Advising Students

Advising Students. Harvey Gullicks University of North Dakota Mark Meyers University of Wisconsin- Platteville. Advising Issues. Email Documentation Critical Throughout Distance students = transfer students: Rigorous transfer credits & work experience waivers review.

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Advising Students

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  1. Advising Students Harvey Gullicks University of North Dakota Mark Meyers University of Wisconsin- Platteville

  2. Advising Issues • Email Documentation Critical Throughout • Distance students = transfer students: Rigorous transfer credits & work experience waivers review. • Enforce course prerequisites with academic advisement registration holds & course registration permission numbers system. • Work & course load: <6 cr.hr. if working full time • Advising must present options to take courses from other institutions for later transfer. Frequent requests to review & pre-approve course transfer acceptability. • Faculty advising load: Distance students take 3 times longer to advise than on-campus students.

  3. Admission Standards • Many students seeking admission have poor academic history. Seeking probationary admission or readmission. • Many students have a very long academic record of courses taken. • Many inquiring students have no or little mathematics preparation. Need math placement exam or minimum calculus std. • Students try to manipulate system course equivalencies with associate/tech degree courses. • P.E. commity: persistent unreasonable • Insist on academic cat descriptions & syllabi

  4. Transfer Course Review • Look at prerequisite criteria. • Look t semester sequences to assure prerequisites were met for engineering coursework. • Especially for Calculus prerequisites. • Request & check academic catalog descriptions & syllabi if any doubts. • Calculus series courses • Physics, Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Dynamics, Fluid Mech.

  5. Transfer Course Review • Make sure your advisors know the general education requirements of the university. • Make sure your advisors know their limitations with regard to what substitutions they can accept & where they must recommend formal petitions.

  6. Preadmission AcademicReview • Don’t go there • Don’t review unofficial transcripts and prepare preadmission unofficial transfer status sheets for inquirers. • Time consuming • Insist on the inquiring person’s following the university admission application process, pay the admission application fee, and submit official transcripts to Registrar. • Registrar checks accreditation of institutions.

  7. Financial AidAdvising • Course eligible for Financial Aid • Semester based vs. enroll anytime • Referrals for Veterans Benefits • Referrals for Collaborative Course pursuit with other universities/ community colleges: documentation of transfer course acceptability. • Watch out for Aid Abuse. Heavy course load & poor performance record. • Referrals for Federal Financial Aid Eligibility/Satisfactory Academic Progress Reports: • Too many courses

  8. Readmission Requests • Every student dismissed will have a story & excuse & want probationary readmission. • To Readmit or Not to Readmit, that is the question. • Student history review: previous problems? • Frequent drops/withdrawals? • Frequent course repeats? • Don’t waste your time. Be firm.

  9. Academic Planning • Know your students: • Working full-time? 2-3 courses max. • Full-time students? 12-15 Cr. Hrs. • Many students will want their entire academic program worked out for them from beginning date to graduation. Always optimistic. • Waste of your time. • Prepare academic advisement only one to two semesters beyond the current date.

  10. Courses Not Regularly Available • Some courses not available at critical time for student or not taught via distance due to difficulties (graphical comm., computer apps., labs, etc.). • Options: • Preapprove course offered at student’s local college or another distance venue for transfer substitution. • Offer in summer as intensive on-campus course. • Demonstrated work experience/ expertise waiver.

  11. Advising for OnlineMS Program • Historically • Reactive Advising at Registration time • Program Adminstrator worked with students as they are admitted into the program • Degree requirements, course loads, etc. • No real advising structure • Credit for Life Experience • Transfer of courses completed elsewhere approved by Program Faculty in area of expertise

  12. Advising for OnlineMS Program • Present • Student advising shifted from MS Program Administration to the UW-Platteville Distance Learning Center (DLC) • DLC has been on campus for 20 years • Print-based degrees in other areas • Business, Project Management, and Criminal Justice now online degrees; three others in the near future • Experience base and appropriate personnel for advising and other administrative tasks • DLC consults with MS Degree on appropriate advising topics

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