Jayne K. DrakePeggy JordanMarsha A. Miller et al.John - Academic Advising Approaches. Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Drake, Jayne K.

Academic advising approaches : strategies that teach students to make the most of college / Jayne K. Drake, Peggy Jordan, Marsha A. Miller. First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-10092-9 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-41876-5 (ebk.); ISBN 978-1-118-41603-7 (ebk.)

1. Counseling in higher educationUnited StatesHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Faculty advisorsUnited StatesHandbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

LB2343.D73 2013

378.1'94dc23

2013013535

Good advising may be the single most underestimated characteristic of a successful college experience.

Richard Light, Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, 2001

This book is dedicated to academic advisors across the globe whose efforts help students make the most of their college experiences.

Preface

The publication of this book signals a significant step forward in the evolution of academic advising as a profession. Its purpose is to expand the knowledge base of advising and link theory with practice. It provides a deep look at the scholarship that underpins advising and offers practical applications for advising contact with students. It highlights the various interdisciplinary connections between advising and other disciplines, especially the social sciences, education, and the humanities. It also challenges professional and faculty advisors, counselors, personal tutors, and advising administrators around the world to become thought leaders and scholar-practitioners ( Schulenberg & Lindhorst, 2008, p. 43)those who study the knowledge base, engage in research, explore the viability and applicability of various theories to student interactions, and assess the practical applications to their own advising practice. As Shaffer, Zalewski, and Leveille (2010) stated in The Professionalization of Academic Advising, academic advisors need to develop a body of theory from which to educate future advisors (p. 73). Doing so, they maintain, is as critical to the future of the profession as is the need for empirical research into the effectiveness of academic advising practice (p. 73). Good practice is grounded in knowledge, research, and assessment.

To serve increasingly complex and diverse institutions of higher education around the world and their burgeoning diverse student populations, academic advising professionals need to understand that one unified theory of academic advising is neither possible nor necessary ( Hagen & Jordan, 2008, p. 19). They must be able to recognize various advising approaches and adapt them to their own student populations with the expectation of enhancing student satisfaction with their academic experiences and helping students articulate and achieve their academic goals and career aspirations.

The contributors to this book provide theoretical background and practical developmental approaches to advising around the understanding that students are learners who establish a partnership of responsibility with their advisors and who ultimately take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress. Building relationships and encouraging this holistic development of all students are key elements in all the described approaches.