Responsible academic advisors recognize their limitations and use their specialized knowledge effectively. To make connections between academic advising and other aspects of students' lives, advisors seek out resources provided by others. Referrals to these resources provide students with further assessments of their needs and access to appropriate programs and services. With others, advisors are responsible for helping students integrate the information they are confronted with and for helping students make well-informed academic decisions. If peer advisors are used, the supervising adviser will closely monitor the peer adviser regarding adherence to appropriate policies and practices.
Advisors are responsible to the college or university in which they work.
Advisors increase their collective professional strength by sharing their philosophies and techniques with colleagues. Advisors keep administrators who are not involved directly in the advising process informed and aware of the importance of academic advising in students' lives, and the need for administrative support of advising and related activities. Advisors abide by the specific policies, procedures, and values of the department and institution for which they work. Where injustices occur, and might interfere with students' learning, advisors advocate for change on behalf of students with the institution's administration, faculty, and staff. In this spirit, advisors hold a variety of points of view.