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What is expected of me as the advisee?

  • Schedule regular appointments or make regular contacts with your Adviser during each semester
  • Call if you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment
  • Maintain an academic advising and career planning file
  • Be responsible for your decisions and actions
  • Learn the requirements for your degree by reading the Undergraduate Catalog
  • Become knowledgeable about University policy and procedures that affect you (e.g. drop & add deadlines, enrollment, financial aid, etc.)
  • Save all official university documents (receipts, memos, etc.) until you are cleared for graduation
  • Use the Park University website and other forms of communication to learn about policies, procedures, deadlines, and requirements
  • Accept responsibility for your own education
  • Activate and check Park Google Apps regularly
  • Be involved in the advising process by being prepared to discuss your goals and educational plans at your advising meetings
  • Ask questions if you do not understand an issue or have a specific concern
  • Keep a personal record of your progress toward meeting your goals
  • Clarify personal values and goals and provide your adviser with accurate information regarding your interests, abilities, and current academic status

What can I expect from my adviser?

  • Assist you in preparing an appropriate plan of study and course schedules
  • Monitor your decisions: inform you of relevant alternatives, limitations, and potential consequences of academic decisions, but allow you to make your own choices
  • Supply you with accurate information on academic policies and procedures
  • Encourage you to be responsible for your own academic progress and to realize your full potential at Park University
  • Respond to your emails and telephone calls within 24 hours (excluding weekends and holidays)
  • Assist you in filling out forms
  • Make appropriate referrals for academic, career and/or personal issues
  • Respect as an individual in the educational planning process
  • Demonstrate, explain, and clarify the function of the degree audit
  • Participate in ongoing professional development and advising education
  • Listen to your concerns
  • Be available to answer questions through scheduled meetings, email or walk-in appointments
  • Provide you with information about educational opportunities outside the classroom
  • Understand and effectively communicate the curriculum, graduation requirements, and college policies and procedures
  • Provide you with information about and strategies for utilizing the available resources and services on campus
  • Assist you in gaining decision making skills and assuming responsibility for your educational plans and achievements
  • Maintain confidentiality

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