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Department of Public Health Sciences MPH Advising Workshop

Join us for the MPH Advising Workshop to learn how to effectively advise and support students, ensuring their success as paying customers, department ambassadors, recruiters, and future alumni donors. Explore strategies for initial advising, reviewing course sequencing, and addressing student concerns.

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Department of Public Health Sciences MPH Advising Workshop

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  1. Department of Public Health SciencesMPH Advising Workshop January 2013

  2. Initial Thoughts • Students are paying customers • Students are departmental ambassadors • Students are departmental recruiters • Students are the department’s legacy • Students become alumni donors Concern for the Student = Good Advisement

  3. First Steps • Contact with assigned advisee • Once a student is accepted for admission you receive copy of acceptance letter • Please contact them via e-mail or phone • Schedule initial advising meeting • Interview student • Describe your professional interests, etc. • Review course sequencing, BUT … • Go over working Plan of Study • Describe your policy on office visitation

  4. MPH 500 Some new students will be required to take MPH 500 during their first semester. • The admission committee identifies those students. • The acceptance letter from the department will contain that notification • Copy to advisor/student file • This is a first semester requirement If you feel the requirement should be waived, see the graduate coordinator

  5. First Steps • Review Requirements for the Masters Degree • http://gradschool.nmsu.edu/deadlines/pdfs/ReqMasDeg.pdf • http://catalog.nmsu.edu/grad-2012-2013/index.html • Department Plan of Study Form • Graduate School Forms • http://prospective.nmsu.edu/graduate/forms/index.html • Scholarship application • http://www.nmsu.edu/CHSS/scholarshipinfo.html • Change of advisor • http://publichealth.nmsu.edu/graduate-programs/current-graduate-students/forms/

  6. Student Support • Meet with advisees at least once a semester • Review student’s progress and satisfaction • Discuss his/her professional/field experience interests • Degree plan alterations? • Course substitutions • Elective selection • Off-sequence requests • Access to student files • As advisor, you have access to student files in the department office. Must sign out the file

  7. Advising Decisions – policy Petitions should be student initiated. • Advisor is the first line of decision making • Direct student to the appropriate form and have the or help them complete it • Approvals/Signatures • Be sure student and you sign the petition • The Graduate Coordinator will sign for the Department Head • Secretary will copy form for the student and file. Send to Graduate Student Services

  8. Graduation • STAR Audit – My NMSU>Faculty>Degree Audit • https://my.nmsu.edu/web/mycampus/home#https://my.nmsu.edu/paf/authorize?ticket=ST-909909-WsMy0YYw2fzXjdKHpeIV-cas • Star Audit Change Form • http://prospective.nmsu.edu/graduate/forms/DegreeAuditExceptionForm-Revised.pdf • Transfer of Credit • http://prospective.nmsu.edu/graduate/forms/index.html

  9. Final Thoughts • If you are not sure how to handle a student’s concern, contact me. I am here to help you and the student. • “Advising” is a part of Category 1 in the annual planning document. • Concern for the Student = Good Advisement

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