Although he is one of only five of the 29 academic advisors now teaching at U-M, all have college teaching experience. In addition to working in the Center, some advisors maintain regular office hours in residence halls. Part of the effort to improve academic advising includes giving first-year students the opportunity to meet with an academic advisor three times during orientation. But now, as a junior, I keep in touch with my advisor through e-mail quite often. Advisors can quickly relay information to groups of advisees or communicate with individual advisees.
Students can read the messages and respond at their convenience.
The Center also has an e-mail address for students who may not have a specific advisor, or for students studying abroad. Of course, e-mail contact does not replace individual appointments. That can lead to another solution that we can't get at on the Web. As an undergraduate, she often consulted her premed advisor, Penelope Morris, who now works for the Medical School. Part of her job was to make sure you don't go to med school just because you think you should.