Are You Ready for Advising?

Are You Ready for Advising?A Faculty Survival GuideSteve Klepetar : sfklepetar@stcloudstate.eduMike Sharp: mdsharp@stcloudstate.edu

Advising Center Phone: 308-6075

Advisors rock! And good advising makesa difference.Students appreciatethe help they receive. Goodadvising saves students timeand money; sometimes it canlead to real epiphanies (Mikesword) in terms of career paths.

New Students / ContextAdvising and Registration DaysNETOptionalHands on registration assistance is not guaranteedNEFRequiredHands on registration assistance guaranteedMissing?Registration windowAccess code

The Registration Process at SCSUStudents register for the upcoming semester by priority based on the number of credits earned.In Fall, 2010, registration begins on November 8.

Advisor AssignmentsDepartments determine who advises

IntendedDetermined by student intentionAdvising Center coordinates and assignsDeclaredDetermined by major application processRecords Office coordinates and assignsStudents who have not been admitted to a major must secure an access code from an advisor. This code is an arbitrary, six digit number.Its only purpose is to get students to meet with an advisor.Providing a student with this code without an actual advising appointment defeats the purpose.

Academic AdvisingPrescriptiveASDevelopmentalA SDevelopmental PrescriptiveA S + A S = Desired outcomeSocial ConstructivismA S + O (O=important others)

www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/031205mk.htm

Self Directed (Sharp) S

AdvisingWe find it helpful to email our advisees early to invite them to meet with us before the rush begins. We actually make three invitations.

When we meet with our advisees, we find it helpful to have them print out a copy of their degree audit report DARS.

Students can access their DARS through the online system. You can easily have them do this in your office from your computer. This allows you to show students exactly where they stand in terms of the LEP, major and minor, total credits , GPA, completion rate, etc.

It feels great to know you are heading in the right direction.The Online Registration SystemWhen you meet with an advisee, you could ask the student to log into the online registration system.

Have the student change the semester to Spring, 2011.

You can have the student check for registrations holds.

If there is one or more hold, students can take care of that prior to their registration time.

You can also have students check to see when their registration window opens.

Once you have completed the appointment, you can have students enter their codes to make sure you have given them the correct one.

Course Selection / Big PictureMajorLEP(General Education)PESS 122MinorUniversityElectives120128 total credits12-16 credits full load45 upper level (300-499)Upper Division Writing 13The SCSU Liberal Education ProgramStudents entering in Fall, 2010 and after are required to complete the SCSU Liberal Education Program. This is now the general education curriculum for all students except for those in the Honors Program (who will receive general education advising from the Honors Program)

The LEP consists of ten goal areasStudents must fulfill each of the goal areas through coursework or experience (in the process of being defined by the General Education Committee)Goal areas require either one or two coursesIn goal areas that require two courses, these must come from different rubrics (e.g. in goal 3 a student could not count two Biology courses to satisfy the two course requirement).Liberal Education Program10 Goal AreasCommunicate Orally & in Writing (2 courses or experiences)Critical Reasoning (one course or experience)Natural & Physical Sciences (two courses or experiences; two rubrics; one lab)Mathematical Thinking & Quantitative Reasoning (one course or experience)History & the Social & Behavioral Sciences (two courses or experiences; two rubrics)

Humanities &Fine Arts (two courses or experiences; two rubrics)Racial & Ethnic Diversity in the U.S. (one course or experience)Global Perspectives (one course or experience)9. Civic Engagement & Ethics (one course or experience)10. Environmental Issues (one course or experience)

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The Liberal Education Program is a set of common requirements to all of the state colleges and universities in the MnSCU system. This makes it easier for students to transfer to SCSU from one of our sister institutions.

Walk through the goal areas with examples from each area of how students can fulfill the goal. The more you can personalize examples for students in the room (intended major or lack thereof), the better

To complete general education at SCSU students must complete a minimum of 40 credits. These credits are compiled into courses that are then categorized into goals. The goals comprise the SCSU Liberal Education Program.

Note that students must have an overall 2.00 g.p.a. (a C average) for all courses applied to the Liberal Education Program

Test Out option for Goals: 1,2 & 9Please have students speak with an advisor if they believe they have the background and skills necessary to test out.

Context! Liberal Education will cover 1/3 of the credits needed for graduation.

15LEP UpdatesThe most up-to-date version of the LEP appears on the Records and Registration page, under Forms:

http://www.stcloudstate.edu/registrar/pdf/LiberalEducationProgram.pdf

Special Features of the LEPSome courses count in more than one goal area.

The limit for SCSU courses is two goal areas. However, transfer students might have courses that count in more than two goal areas.

While double counting is fine, students must earn 40 separate credits in the LEP.

Students who use two double-counts, for example, might end up with only 34 credits in the LEP.

These students would have to make up those credits by taking additional coursework in the LEP. Those credits may be taken anywhere in the LEP, even if the student has already taken a course with the same rubric.

A little confused?ClarificationThe last point is a little tricky. This explanation might help:For any goal that requires two courses, students must take courses with two different rubrics.

For example, a student who takes ENGL 184 in goal six, cannot use another English course as the second one for that goal area.

However, If that student has fulfilled the requirements for each goal area, but has earned only 34 credits due to double counting, that student may select the remaining six credits from any rubric.ExampleSay a student completes all ten goals, and in doing so takes SOC 200 for both goals 5 and 10, and ENGL 216 for both goals 6 and 7. That student might end up with only 34 credits earned in the LEP.

He or she could take SOC 160 and ENGL 202 to reach the 40 credit minimum.

No rules would be violated because that all ten goal areas would be satisfied and the student would have selected courses from two different rubrics in the areas that require two courses.

The additional SOC and ENGL courses would simply get the student up to 40 credits in the LEP.

What a relief! Makes sense now.DiversityStudents must take three courses that have diversity status.

All diversity courses are also in the LEP, and are marked as bold faced and double spaced.

The diversity courses must come from three different rubrics.

One of these diversity courses must be a Racial Issues class. All of the goal 7 classes are also RIS. Students who transfer a class into goal 7 that is not a RIS and must take one (unless they have completed the transfer curriculum elsewhere, or have earned an AA degree, or have 40 transfer credits placed in the LEP).Transfer Credits and DiversityIf a student transfers credits into the LEP (please note that only credits transferred into LEP count for these waivers), these waivers apply:20 29 credits waive one diversity class.30 -39 credits waive two diversity classes.40 or more credits waive all diversity classes, including Racial Issues.These waivers are in addition to any diversity classes that may have come in via transfer.

Ready to go for Spring semester!Are You Ready?