Advisers respect the rights of students to have information about themselves kept confidential. Advisers share information with others about students and their programs only when both adviser and student believe that information is relevant and will result in increased information of assistance, assessment, and provision of appropriate services to the student. Advisers gain access to and use computerized information about student only when that information is relevant to the advising which they are doing with that particular student. Advisers enter or change information on students' records only when legitimately authorized to do so. Advisers adequately document advising contacts to facilitate subsequent advising interactions.
Advisers are responsible for involving others, where appropriate, in the advising process.
Effective advising requires a broad-based, or holistic, approach to working with students. Advisers are facilitators and mediators. Responsible academic advisers recognize their limitations and effectively use their specialized knowledge. Therefore, to make connections between academic advising and other aspects of students' lives, advisers 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.