Jeff Nagelbush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ferris State University
>From: "Aubyn Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Student Advising
>Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:33:36 -0400
>
>Aubyn writes...
>Some years ago our college moved from old style, low tech registration
>(paper based, Arena, etc.) to a higher tech, electronic registration in
>which all course and student information is available online, students can
>register online, and add and drop courses online without teacher or
>advisor permission/notification.
>
>There have been a lot of good things about this change, but one problem
>(anticipated and much debated in advance) has been the impact on
>student-advisor contact. Student advising has always been done by the
>major professor here, and it has been valued as a part of the mentoring
>relationship, including much more than just class selection (graduate
>school preparation, personal and spiritual guidance, etc.). Under the old
>system students had to meet with their advisors at least once a quarter to
>sign-up for classes, and often more often (every time they added or
>dropped a class for example). This contact in turn spawned the kind of
>relationship that increased the likelihood of non-required contacts.
>
>Under the new system, many students are avoiding almost all contact with
>their advisors. We email, phone mail, snail mail, put up signs, make
>announcements in classes, all designed to encourage advisees to make
>regular contact, but there has been a significant drop off. All too often,
>it seems the students who most need to see their Advisors are the ones who
>are least likely to take the initiative.
>
>I write to ask if anyone has experience with techniques that have been
>successful in encouraging regular student/advisee contact in the wake of
>the more recent electronic registration processes. We are considering, for
>example, making quarterly meetings with the Advisor a requirement in
>classes that are in turn required for Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors and
>Seniors, but wonder what impact this will have on the quality of the
>interactions, and if this is an appropriate use of academic credit. We are
>also considering instituting more elaborate Advising-related social events
>at Faculty homes as a way of seducing students to meet with us.
>
>The harder headed among us suggest that we should just make ourselves
>available and let students take responsibility for showing up if they want
>to, but we do mourn the loss of the previous closer contact that we had.
>
>
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>Aubyn Fulton, Ph.D.
>Professor of Psychology
>Chair, Behavioral Science Department
>1 Angwin Ave
>Angwin, CA 94508
>
>707-965-6536 (office)
>707-965-6538 (fax)
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