Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College 1st Edition

Institutions of higher education expect many to play an advising role including academic advisors, career advisors, faculty, and other counselors and student affairs staff, yet there is little training on how to advise. Various advising strategies exist, each of which has its own proponents. To serve increasingly complex higher education institutions around the world and their  diverse student cohorts, academic advisors must understand multiple advising approaches and adroitly adapt them to their own student populations. Academic Advising Approaches outlines a wide variety of proven advising practices and strategies that help students master the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career goals. This book embeds theoretical bases within practical explanations and examples advisors can use in answering fundamental questions such as: What will make me a more effective advisor? What can I do to enhance student success? What conversations do I need to initiate with my colleagues to improve my unit, campus, and profession? Linking theory with practice, contributors to Academic Advising Approaches provide an accessible updated reference useful to all who serve in an advising role, including professional and faculty advisors, counselors, personal tutors, and advising administrators. Based upon accepted  theories within the social sciences and humanities, the approaches covered include those incorporating developmental, learning-centered, appreciative, proactive,  strengths-based, Socratic, and hermeneutic advising as well as those featuring advising as teaching, motivational interviewing, self-authorship, and advising as coaching. All the contributors advocate relationship building as a means to encourage students to take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress.