A learning paradigm can transform the field of academic advising. Ten organizing
principles answer the two core questions raised by a focus on learning. What
should the student learn through advising? How might the learning take place?
The first three organizing principles define a curriculum for academic advising
and are based on the premise that the goals and values of advising should be
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Community college students enrolled in science and technology fields face many
challenges as they pursue transfer pathways to earn a 4-year degree. Despite
clear links to student persistence, advising interactions that facilitate or
inhibit transfer progress are not clearly understood. In this study, 82
community college students pursuing science and technology transfer-based
programs of study par... hiện toàn bộ
A shared perspective on the extant and ideal organizing principles for an
institution's advising system is important to the overall effectiveness of
advising. In this essay, I develop a vision of advising as educating, and from
that vision, derive some higher order principles for an institutional advising
system that will accommodate the widest range of prevailing theories and
practices of advisin... hiện toàn bộ
In his study of role modeling among Asian American and African American students
at a predominantly White research university, the author found that although
most minority students believed in the importance of a role model, many did not
have one. Many also did not feel that their role models had to be from their own
race. The author found no evidence that the presence or absence of a role model
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