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Advising Handbook - How to Prepare for Appointments
About This Guide
Welcome to UWS and Academic Advising! This Handbook is designed to explain the process of working with students to achieve their educational goals and to provide resources that can answer questions about how advising works and the expectations of both advisors and students.
This handbook is broken into a few guides in our KnowledgeBase. After reading this guide, we suggest reading the other guides in this series:
- Advising Handbook - UW-Superior Performance Expectations for Academic Advisors
- Advising Handbook - Advising Calendar Cycle
- Advising Handbook - Student Expectations
- Advising Handbook - Best Practices for Successful Advisement
- Advising Handbook - Understanding Navigate
- Advising Handbook - Understanding EHive
- Advising Handbook - How to Prepare for Appointments
- Advising Handbook - Advising Special Populations
To best prepare for the advising appointment, you should:
- Review Academic Advising Report
- Review Transfer Credit Report
- Review holds
- Review past notes and appointment summaries in Navigate
- Review a degree plan
- List any questions you may have for the student
Course Scheduling
UW-Superior utilizes a fully filterable course schedule. You can search by type of career, subject, University Studies subject, term, credits, delivery method, and if a course has open seats.
What Do Advising Appointments Look Like?
Each advisor has a different style of advising, but common questions you might ask a student are:
- What is motivating you to pursue a college degree?
- Why did you choose to attend UW-Superior?
- What other colleges have you attended? How many credits are you transferring in? Do you already have a degree?
- Do you have any AP, CLEP or CITS credits?
- Why have you chosen this major (or what majors are you considering)?
- What is your living situation?
- Do you have family commitments in addition to school?
- Will you be working this semester? How many hours per week? On or off campus? How do you feel this will impact your studies?
- Are there other situations we need to consider when planning your educational program (student-athlete, disability, military, etc.)
- When you have free time, what do you usually find yourself doing?
- Do you know about…(tutoring, counseling, career services, study away, etc.)?
- What would you consider a “good” class schedule?
- Are you happy with your grades last semester (or in high school)?
- What does being successful mean to you? How do you define success?
- What are you most excited about? What worries or concerns do you have?
- Do you have any post-grad plans?