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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 PirateMail 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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