Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College
To serve increasingly complex higher education institutions and their diverse student cohorts, academic advisors must understand multiple advising approaches and adroitly adapt them to their own student populations.Academic Advising Approachesoutlines a wide variety of proven advising practices and strategies that help students master the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career goals.Linking theory with practice, contributors toAcademic Advising Approachesprovide an accessible updated reference useful to all who serve in an advising role. Based upon accepted theories within the social sciences and humanities, the approaches covered include those incorporating developmental, learning-centered, appreciative, proactive, strengths-based, Socratic, and hermeneutic advising as well as those featuring advising as teaching, motivational interviewing, self-authorship, and advising as coaching. All the contributors advocate relationship building as a means to encourage students to take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress.Praise forAcademic Advising Approaches"As higher education increasingly focuses on student success, the impact exerted by academic advising on graduation is increasingly recognized and valued. This text firmly places academic advising in the teaching and learning paradigm as it features theoretical approaches and strategies for use as academic advising gains an integral role on campus."—Charlie Nutt, Executive Director, NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising"Good advising is a critical part of all students' college experiences. Specific suggestions make this book a wonderfully valuable addition to the advising literature and should appeal to advisors as well as advisees and their families."—Richard J. Light, Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University"Finally a single resource incorporates a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives to undergird and inspire targeted approaches by academic advisors. The ideas and practical applications should be incorporated into academic advisors' contacts with students and in the syllabus of every advisor training program."—Virginia N. Gordon, Associate Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University