Faculty Resources | Advising & Academic Services

Advisement & Registration Resources

This is a link to the Students in Transition Office webpage of resources for Professional and Faculty Advisors for A&R

Advisor's Role

• Invite advisees to meet with you each semester
• Help students clarify their educational values and goals
• Engage student's in discussion about plans for courses and degree completion
• Guide students toward internships, UROP, and opportunities for engagement in the campus community (clubs, organizations, volunteering, etc.) and discuss the connection to their educational and life goals
• Know campus resources that support academic and personal success
• Follow the FERPA law regarding educational records
• Help students reflect upon and make meaning of their college experiences
• Be familiar with the use of UMD advising tools (APAS Reports, Graduation Planner, Adviser Connect)
• Challenge students to think critically, reflectively, and creatively
• Help students determine credible sources of information when choosing criteria and making decisions

National Academic Advising Association

Articles

• Toward Reflective Conversations: An Advising Approach that Promotes Self-Authorship
• The Academic Advisor As Teacher
• Advisor, Teacher, Partner
• Promoting Student Success
• Academic Advising in the New Global Century: Supporting Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes Achievement
• Academic Advising as Learning
• From Teaching To Learning
• Teachable Moments
• Self-Authorship
• Could Fixing Advising Fix Higher Education?