Each first-year adviser will be thoroughly familiar with Antioch procedures and policies, especially the graduation requirements. It is essential that each adviser be familiar with the co-op program and have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the requirements of the particular majors so that students who express an interest in such a major can be helped to begin satisfying these requirements in a timely fashion, even before the student officially declares in that major. Each first-year adviser may be asked to advise other students whose advisers are away for the term. The principal adviser will make available to the substitute all relevant records and information necessary for this advising. The first-year, classroom adviser is responsible for keeping advisees' files in order, and the transfer of the advisees and their files to major adviser sin an appropriately timely fashion.
Transfer students are a special population.
When they first enter they are pre-major students, but in most cases it is essential that they begin working in a major field as soon as possible. It is the responsibility of the faculty within each major to prepare a summary sheet, to be distributed to each adviser, of the requirements of that major. In this regard it is the job of the first-year academic adviser to transfer the student to a major adviser at the earliest convenient opportunity. It is crucial that responsibility for advising, which is an academic function, be centered in the Dean of Faculty's office. The Dean of Faculty will appoint a Director of Academic Advising.