Advising provides for proactive developmental academic advising and a means to maintain timely management of the academic advising process. It provides a resource for giving accurate, informed advice to students. Advising enables a student to take greater responsibility for accessing individual academic progress in currently selected programs and gives the student the ability to evaluate the impact of choosing new programs. Advisors have the benefit of controlled but easy access to important information about student academic progress. They can access information about the courses a student has completed and those needed, as well as total credits earned for work completed to date.
Students become active partners in the advising process.
They may view or print their own information and may make trial changes in their academic plan to determine the consequences of new academic plans. Because of the sensitive and confidential nature of much advising information, an organization can determine the appropriate level of security for its own approach to academic advising. Task and function oriented menus. Maintains files and procedures for academic advising information. Manages organizational requirements.