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Improve recruitment and retention |
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Provide support for mandatory advising to insure that
requirements are met and programs followed to ensure timely
graduation |
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Provide support for student choices in selecting
career tracks |
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Improve record keeping, database management, and
gather data for assistance in curriculum development and assessment
efforts |
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Work in tandem with the Associate Dean to improve the
application package for professional and graduate school
applications |
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Track students and exert concerted effort toward
early attention to circumstances that hamper student success |
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Serve as the line of communication for all matters
requiring mass mailings, targeted student groups, and future
students |
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Assist in the development and maintain of literature
for programs, departments, and the college |
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Serve as the starting point for solution of student
problems or expression of student concerns |
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Answer questions about the College of Science and
University policies |
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Provide information on graduation requirements |
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Assist in selection of courses toward graduation |
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Remove mandatory advising holds |
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Provide information on academic programs in science |
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Provide information on careers in science |
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Coordinate assignment of faculty career advisors |
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Coordinate mandatory academic advising for all four
years with career advising by faculty career advisors |
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During each advising visit examine progress toward
graduation in order to increase probability of graduation in eight
semesters without accumulation of excessive coursework above the 128
hours required for graduation |
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Advise pre-science students attempting to garner
admission to CoS who were formerly advised by University College |
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Insure that Pre-Health Care students in developing a
schedule that enables them to complete the required Science Block
before they take the MCAT, OAT, PCAT, or other admission exams |
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Collect information and documentation for the CoS
database to be used in writing a more personal and tailored cover
letter of recommendation for our applicants to professional schools
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Assist students in obtaining overloads (where
appropriate) |
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Provide required college and university forms |
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Assist with add/drop through the end of the add drop
period |
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Provide information and warnings about probation and
suspension |
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Advise probationary students and assist in the
development of a schedule for returning suspended students |
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Prepare academic improvement plans and assist in the
coordination of academic progress of probationary students to good
standing |
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Contact probationary students to adjust schedules to
a maximum of 14 hrs by selecting courses to be selected for required
drop |
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Submit administrative withdrawals to the Associate
Dean (e.g. students who enroll in the second course of a sequence
without making C or better in the first)—A standing list of courses
to be analyzed will be established with help from Chairs |
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Maintain and manage the online advising website
resulting in real time answers to questions posed by students during
the five day work week |
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Assisting with New Student Orientation
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Refer students to counseling when needed (mental,
health, personal, financial) by the proper university office |
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Teach UNI 101 |
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Provide encouragement in achieving academic success |
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Track students for graduation in order to identify
problems early that can be corrected in order for the student to
graduate in four years |
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Based on reports from faculty of students with poor
attendance students will be contacted and advised to drop by the
drop date rather than receive F and to follow up with a meeting to
identify strategies for success |
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Early intervention and intrusive advising of students
referred by faculty, identified from the mid-term D/F list, or
identified in the CoS Database who are not yet on probation but
whose GPA falls below 2.2 through direct contact and development of
a staged plan for academic improvement |
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Refer students to tutoring services in BSC, MTH, and
University College |
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Contact
non-returning students in summer who are not registered for fall to
encourage them to finish the degree |
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Contact
suspended students who are eligible to resume their education to
return and finish the degree |
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Contact
students eligible for academic forgiveness (5 yrs after leaving the
institution with poor grades) |