Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook

Description

One of the challenges in higher education is helping students toachieve academic success while ensuring their personal andvocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more thanthirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the mostcomprehensive, classic reference on academic advising. They explorethe critical aspects of academic advising and provide insights forfull-time advisors, counselors, and those who oversee studentadvising or have daily contact with advisors and students.

• New chapters on advising administration and collaboration withother campus services
• A new section on perspectives on advising including those ofCEOs, CAOs (chief academic officers), and CSAOs (chief studentaffairs officers)
• More emphasis on two-year colleges and the importance ofresearch to the future of academic advising
• New case studies demonstrate how advising practices havebeen put to use.

About the author

Virginia N. Gordon is assistant dean emeritus and adjunct associate professor at The Ohio State University. She is author of Career Advising from Jossey-Bass.

Wesley R. Habley directs the American College Testing (ACT) Center for the Enhancement of Educational Practices in Iowa City, Iowa.

Thomas J. Grites is assistant to provost at the Richard Stockton of New Jersey in Pomona, New Jersey.