Academic Advising: Responsibilities of the Advisee

The advisor-advisee relationship is organic and will vary from student to student. Ideally, students will develop a mentoring relationship with more than one faculty member during their time at the University. In regard to their officially assigned advisors, students are responsible for the following:

• Advisees are ultimately responsible for making sure that they understand and meet the requirements of their academic programs and the University.
• Freshmen, transfer students, and new advisees should arrive at advising meetings with some awareness of academic requirements, questions they would like to have addressed, and any documents requested by their advisors.
• Continuing advisees should arrive at pre-registration advising meetings with a good sense of the requirements, a preliminary course schedule, and any questions or concerns they have regarding their requirements and/or schedule.
• Advisees are responsible for scheduling a meeting with their advisor during the advising and registration period. Advisees should be aware that different advisors have different sign-up strategies.
• Advisees should visit their advisors outside of the advising and registration periods to discuss issues beyond scheduling and academic requirements.