Pennsylvania State University: Advising Styles

Penn State’s academic advising models some of these effective advising styles. Watch their video below!

Penn State also provides information about developing peer advising programs here.

Santa Clara University–Leavey School of Business: LSB Peer Advising Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQZB1C8NhU

University of Missouri: Multicultural Certificate

“The MU Multicultural Certificate Program promotes diversity on Mizzou’s campus. The College of Arts and Sciences offers the certificate to students looking to become familiar with multicultural and diversity issues. In an increasingly global environment, students earning this certificate will be better prepared to understand and to facilitate cross-cultural interaction in their future careers, as well as in their general life experiences.” –Multicultural Certificate//Mizzou

What is so unique about this certificate program is that students can get a certificate that opens them up to a greater diversity in perspectives without having to take too many special classes outside of degree requirements. This allows maximum accessibility to students and can be motivating for them to attach a certificate onto their degree with the valuable integration of multicultural certificate approved courses. The program works by promoting an integration of diverse perspectives into many classic course offerings. Read more here. Promoting a similar certificate at your institution might result in higher enrollment in diversity courses that complement any degree.

Macalester College: Expectation Management Resource for Academic Advising

Macalester College provides an easy-to-read guide (click here) for incoming freshman students to note the differences between their academic lives in high school and the academic lives they will have in college. This is a great resource to provide students with for expectation management as it might clear up confusion or frustrations they may be feeling during their transition.

Miami University: Supporting Students in Developing Self-Authorship

“At Miami University, we have established a three-tiered framework to help our educators design learning environments and curricula that promote students’ development toward self-authorship (Taylor and Haynes 2008), and we hope to advance this or similar frameworks across the university. Underlying the framework is what Baxter Magolda (2004) calls “the Learning Partnership Model,” which advances three educational principles: (1) validating students’ potential as scholars, (2) situating learning in their experience, and (3) mutually constructing meaning with them. Although the principles undergird all three tiers, the way they play out in practice shifts depending on the students’ developmental level.” Please follow this link to read on about the specific considerations and programming Miami University uses to bring this framework to life for their students.