WEBVTT 00:00:00.534 --> 00:00:10.395 Erin: So this video is an overview of how to conduct an advising session, 00:00:10.395 --> 00:00:14.474 from both perspective of the faculty adviser and 00:00:14.474 --> 00:00:17.705 the Student Success and Advising Office. 00:00:17.705 --> 00:00:22.979 So, I'm Erin Baumgartner, currently Director of General Education, 00:00:22.979 --> 00:00:25.600 but also a Biology Faculty adviser. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:30.496 Nikki: And I'm Nikki Weight. The Director for Student Success and Advising. 00:00:30.496 --> 00:00:34.356 Erin: So what we're going to do today, is we're just going to walk you through, 00:00:34.356 --> 00:00:38.447 sort of a basic advising session from beginning to end, 00:00:38.447 --> 00:00:42.048 and share some of the associated resources that go with that. 00:00:42.048 --> 00:00:47.027 Now, if you're relatively new to advising, you're going to have the opportunity 00:00:47.027 --> 00:00:52.137 to kind of connect with Nikki's office for some of their resources, 00:00:52.137 --> 00:00:54.187 and we'll get to those in just a minute. 00:00:54.187 --> 00:00:56.721 But first we're going to kind of just start with the process 00:00:56.721 --> 00:01:01.289 of how do you figure out who your advisees are and how to connect with them. 00:01:01.289 --> 00:01:05.478 So the easiest way to do that is by going through the Portal, 00:01:05.478 --> 00:01:10.168 and if you just click on Wolf Web, you'll go to the Faculty Menu, 00:01:10.168 --> 00:01:14.760 and your advisers menu, and then you can just click on your Advisee Listing. 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.480 Now I'm not going to click on that right now, because I have some advisees in there 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:22.530 and their information is confidential, but this would basically bring up a list of my advisees. 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:27.408 And then what I normally do is, I simply set up in Google Forms, 00:01:27.408 --> 00:01:32.150 I'll make a little list of an advising schedule, 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:37.560 and what that's going to do is, I'll send out the Google Forms link to my advisees, 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.472 so that they can sign up for their advising time. 00:01:40.472 --> 00:01:45.510 And then they can fill that in, with the time that they want, 00:01:45.510 --> 00:01:49.501 they can edit it online, they can make changes if they need to, 00:01:49.501 --> 00:01:52.891 and it makes it really, really easy. They don't have to come in and see me to sign up. 00:01:52.891 --> 00:01:55.611 They just have to do it on the Google Form. 00:01:55.611 --> 00:01:57.811 Nikki: And then for Student Success and Advising, 00:01:57.811 --> 00:02:00.421 for any students that come in for advising through our office, 00:02:00.421 --> 00:02:03.461 we use the Wolf Connection System for our advising appointments. 00:02:03.461 --> 00:02:08.062 That is a feature that if you are interested in utilizing, 00:02:08.062 --> 00:02:12.972 we can connect our offices to see about going to get this set up. 00:02:12.972 --> 00:02:15.712 A benefit of Wolf Connection System for our office, 00:02:15.712 --> 00:02:18.612 is that it allows us to track our notes in there. 00:02:18.612 --> 00:02:22.243 It also is available if other advisers use WCS, 00:02:22.243 --> 00:02:25.148 that they can see past history with a student. 00:02:25.148 --> 00:02:30.225 But, having an online scheduling format is really beneficial for students. 00:02:30.225 --> 00:02:33.603 They can easily get in touch - they're not waiting to hear back from an email, 00:02:33.603 --> 00:02:36.973 or trying to figure out when your office hours are if they're not in one of your classes, 00:02:36.973 --> 00:02:42.213 so that way their time is set aside, so that we're able to focus on that student 00:02:42.213 --> 00:02:45.615 when they come in for advising. 00:02:45.615 --> 00:02:50.845 Erin: Ok. So at the beginning of an advising session, especially if I'm with a new student, 00:02:50.845 --> 00:02:54.775 what I like to do is make sure that I have Degree Tracks up before they come in. 00:02:54.775 --> 00:02:58.896 So, to get to Degree Tracks, you're still going to use the Advisers Menu, 00:02:58.896 --> 00:03:03.165 and then you'll just select Degree Tracks, it'll ask you for the term, 00:03:03.165 --> 00:03:04.786 and then you'll go to Degree Tracks. 00:03:04.786 --> 00:03:10.957 Now, we already have one set up. We have a simulated student account here. 00:03:10.957 --> 00:03:15.075 So, what I would do is I would take a look at this ahead of time, 00:03:15.075 --> 00:03:18.967 I would look at where my students are. And it'll tell me kind of where they are 00:03:18.967 --> 00:03:21.687 with their academic standing and that's an important thing to know. 00:03:21.687 --> 00:03:27.776 And we're going to talk about what that means, what those academic standing information means. 00:03:27.776 --> 00:03:31.346 So I'm going to let Nikki say a little bit more about that. 00:03:31.346 --> 00:03:35.056 Nikki: So, any student at Western that is not in good standing, 00:03:35.056 --> 00:03:39.866 they could be on Academic Warning, Probation, Continued Probation 00:03:39.866 --> 00:03:43.636 from a past semester, or they could be on Academic Suspension. 00:03:43.636 --> 00:03:46.246 Any student that falls into one of these categories, 00:03:46.246 --> 00:03:51.098 if you see that listed on Degree Tracks, our office does advise them, 00:03:51.098 --> 00:03:53.827 and work with them to make sure that any challenges or barriers they're having, 00:03:53.827 --> 00:03:56.948 that we're connecting with resources. 00:03:56.948 --> 00:04:00.479 So I'm going to explain a little bit of the process of what our office requires 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.748 of standing students, so if you see a student that is on warning or probation 00:04:04.748 --> 00:04:07.849 or suspension, you can refer them to our office, but then also you can 00:04:07.849 --> 00:04:10.560 check up and see how they're doing, and see if they've connected with us, 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.440 and then we kind of try to loop that full circle to refer them 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:16.019 back to their assigned adviser. 00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:18.650 A student is placed on Academic Warning 00:04:18.650 --> 00:04:24.313 if their term GPA drops below a 2.0. If they're on Academic Warning, 00:04:24.313 --> 00:04:28.470 and the following term they continue to have a term GPA of below a 2.0, 00:04:28.470 --> 00:04:33.000 they move to Academic Probation, and if that happens again, 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:35.481 they're placed on Suspension. 00:04:35.481 --> 00:04:40.841 Students that have a Warning or Probation, and their next term they get above a 2.0 00:04:40.841 --> 00:04:44.471 GPA, are placed back in good standing, so you may see some fluctuation, 00:04:44.471 --> 00:04:48.172 if they only take one class, or if they took it over the summer, 00:04:48.172 --> 00:04:52.190 it may change really quickly. What happens if a student is placed 00:04:52.190 --> 00:04:55.752 on Warning or Probation or Suspension, is that at the end of every term, 00:04:55.752 --> 00:04:59.521 once grades have been submitted to the Registrar's Office, 00:04:59.521 --> 00:05:02.830 the Registrar's Office will send the official notification 00:05:02.830 --> 00:05:05.673 to that student of what their Academic Standing is and then 00:05:05.673 --> 00:05:09.972 in that notification they are referred to the Student Success and Advising Office. 00:05:09.972 --> 00:05:14.693 We have two different tracks for students that are in less than good standing, 00:05:14.693 --> 00:05:21.674 just based on, how close they are to reaching academic suspension. 00:05:21.674 --> 00:05:24.699 Students on Warning have two options. They can complete an online 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:27.793 Student Success Workshop, that goes over what Warning is, 00:05:27.793 --> 00:05:32.253 and what resources are available to them, but also just refers them to our office. 00:05:32.253 --> 00:05:35.124 Or they can just meet with an Academic Success Adviser. 00:05:35.124 --> 00:05:37.734 Those students who are on Academic Probation since it's their 00:05:37.734 --> 00:05:40.516 second term below a 2.0, we want them to come and meet 00:05:40.516 --> 00:05:43.886 with someone just to make sure that we're addressing what their needs are. 00:05:43.886 --> 00:05:48.186 Students who are on Academic Warning or Probation, they receive a registration 00:05:48.186 --> 00:05:52.426 hold on the first day of the term or at some point after that email. 00:05:52.426 --> 00:05:56.154 And that's just an incentive for them to come and actually do the workshop 00:05:56.154 --> 00:05:59.156 or come and see us so that they know what it means for their standing 00:05:59.156 --> 00:06:00.776 and resources to help them. 00:06:00.776 --> 00:06:04.317 If students are placed on Academic Suspension, they actually have 00:06:04.317 --> 00:06:09.436 to sit out for at least one term before being able to resume classes, and if 00:06:09.436 --> 00:06:13.736 they happen to get a second Suspension, that they're required to sit out a year. 00:06:13.736 --> 00:06:17.207 Our office works with the students who are returning after that break. 00:06:17.207 --> 00:06:20.997 They are required to take a Learning Seminar class their first term back, 00:06:20.997 --> 00:06:25.233 and that is taught by staff in Student Success and Advising. 00:06:25.233 --> 00:06:30.666 Attached to this presentation on our website, there will be a handout 00:06:30.666 --> 00:06:34.298 with some helpful resources for doing your first advising session. 00:06:34.298 --> 00:06:39.318 In that resource, there'll be kind of a one page cheat sheet 00:06:39.318 --> 00:06:44.688 for the Academic Standing flow chart, so you can also refer to that for questions 00:06:44.688 --> 00:06:48.537 on how Academic Standing works. Our biggest hope with Academic Standing is 00:06:48.537 --> 00:06:51.550 that we're just getting the student connected with all the appropriate resources 00:06:51.550 --> 00:06:56.168 and helping them overcome whatever challenges they faced in dropping below 00:06:56.168 --> 00:06:59.550 that GPA and helping them get back on track. 00:06:59.550 --> 00:07:04.689 Erin: So, a good reason to be aware of where students are with their academic standing 00:07:04.689 --> 00:07:08.407 is because that's part of the conversation I like to have 00:07:08.407 --> 00:07:10.028 with them when they come in. 00:07:10.028 --> 00:07:14.219 So, if this is a new advisee I will probably just start with getting to know 00:07:14.219 --> 00:07:17.858 them a little bit better, asking them a few questions about, 00:07:17.858 --> 00:07:22.409 sort of, what's, you know, what's brought them to college, what are their goals, 00:07:22.409 --> 00:07:25.898 what are they hoping to get out of their time here, 00:07:25.898 --> 00:07:28.929 and also to just kinda get a sense for who they are. 00:07:28.929 --> 00:07:32.979 And then, at the same time, I'm gonna walk them through 00:07:32.979 --> 00:07:36.530 the DegreeTracks system so that they know how to use it too. 00:07:36.530 --> 00:07:40.970 So DegreeTracks, and this is really important, the DegreeTracks is actually 00:07:40.970 --> 00:07:45.841 the university's official record of the degree requirements for each student. 00:07:45.841 --> 00:07:50.680 So if students want to see kind of where they are in their progress towards degree, 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:53.159 DegreeTracks is the best place to go. 00:07:53.159 --> 00:07:57.485 The requirements in DegreeTracks align to the requirements in the catalog. 00:07:57.485 --> 00:08:00.432 So if, for some reason, a program is looking to alter 00:08:00.432 --> 00:08:02.462 what's in DegreeTracks, they need to do that 00:08:02.462 --> 00:08:05.712 through the curriculum proposal process. 00:08:05.712 --> 00:08:10.821 Of course, what that means is sometimes between years when there are program changes, 00:08:10.821 --> 00:08:16.634 depending on the student's catalog year, which is gonna be listed here under their Catalog Term, 00:08:16.634 --> 00:08:19.914 if they are--if the program requirements have changed and they're using 00:08:19.914 --> 00:08:23.513 a different catalog term, those may be different in DegreeTracks. 00:08:23.513 --> 00:08:27.953 So that's an important thing to be aware of. 00:08:27.953 --> 00:08:31.594 The other thing to be aware of is that if a requirement is not marked 00:08:31.594 --> 00:08:35.144 as complete in DegreeTracks, this little green check box here, 00:08:35.144 --> 00:08:39.795 then it is not marked as complete in the Registrar's Office. 00:08:39.795 --> 00:08:43.393 Sometimes people make a mistaken assumption that, 00:08:43.393 --> 00:08:47.285 well it's not marked off in DegreeTracks but the Registrar's Office knows about it. 00:08:47.285 --> 00:08:49.856 If it's not in Degree Tracks, it is a safe bet that 00:08:49.856 --> 00:08:53.366 the Registrar's Office does not have it recorded as well. 00:08:53.366 --> 00:08:58.969 The blue sort of squiggle here, what that shows is a degree requirement 00:08:58.969 --> 00:09:03.086 that's in progress, and then if it's red and not filled in then we know that 00:09:03.086 --> 00:09:05.747 that requirement is not quite complete. 00:09:05.747 --> 00:09:08.657 So those are things to sort of work students through. 00:09:08.657 --> 00:09:12.387 Now sometimes it's necessary to make an exception or a substitution. 00:09:12.387 --> 00:09:15.747 For example, if a student transfers something in, 00:09:15.747 --> 00:09:19.726 so here we have some students who transferred in some biology classes, 00:09:19.726 --> 00:09:23.308 these are articulated from Chemeketa, but let's imagine that a student transferred 00:09:23.308 --> 00:09:26.177 something in from a college on the east coast where we don't have 00:09:26.177 --> 00:09:30.417 an articulation agreement, if someone is making a substitution 00:09:30.417 --> 00:09:34.757 or an exception to a requirement here that's usually a department head 00:09:34.757 --> 00:09:39.029 or a division chair, somebody like that, that's gonna be noted in here as well, 00:09:39.029 --> 00:09:42.350 so that is something that students can look for. 00:09:42.350 --> 00:09:45.039 And so those can be made in DegreeTracks. 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.850 One thing to be aware of is that if an exception is entered in DegreeTracks, 00:09:48.850 --> 00:09:52.820 it does not affect the prerequisites at registration, 00:09:52.820 --> 00:09:57.562 so a student may still have to get that blue add/drop form signed 00:09:57.562 --> 00:10:02.200 if they don't have a prerequisite, even though that is checked off in DegreeTracks. 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.080 So that is one little funny quirk there. 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.630 So, I like to go over kind of all of the basics of DegreeTracks 00:10:08.630 --> 00:10:12.629 with students so that they know how to read this and interpret it, and then, 00:10:12.629 --> 00:10:16.380 as we talk about their plans for the academic year, 00:10:16.380 --> 00:10:20.901 what I will do is I will add notes in DegreeTracks, 00:10:20.901 --> 00:10:23.650 and I just do that by adding a note. 00:10:23.650 --> 00:10:28.951 You can choose a pre-defined note, but what I usually do is I like to kind of 00:10:28.951 --> 00:10:33.791 do a custom note, and I might describe what the student, what classes 00:10:33.791 --> 00:10:38.742 we talked about, if I recommended they take a placement test before next term, 00:10:38.742 --> 00:10:42.582 something along those lines, and what's really great is I can always 00:10:42.582 --> 00:10:45.481 go back to those notes, but so can the student, 00:10:45.481 --> 00:10:48.442 so it's of course really important to remember that your student advisees 00:10:48.442 --> 00:10:50.871 can see everything that you put in these notes. 00:10:50.871 --> 00:10:53.732 So if they are frustrating you, maybe that's something 00:10:53.732 --> 00:10:56.222 to write down some place else. 00:10:56.222 --> 00:10:59.812 But the other thing that's nice here is if a student decides 00:10:59.812 --> 00:11:04.092 to change their major, or change their advising plans, 00:11:04.092 --> 00:11:08.701 then as they move forward, their new adviser will also have access to these notes. 00:11:10.540 --> 00:11:13.109 Nikki: Just a note on the note section, 00:11:13.109 --> 00:11:17.712 oftentimes there will come a situation in the future where a student 00:11:17.712 --> 00:11:22.852 will look back and say, "Well my adviser told me A, B, and C", 00:11:22.852 --> 00:11:25.161 and it's really helpful to have those notes written down at the time 00:11:25.161 --> 00:11:28.712 so that it doesn't become a "he said, she said" scenario. 00:11:28.712 --> 00:11:33.591 So I use notes, not only for you know, a resource for the student 00:11:33.591 --> 00:11:36.333 and when they come back to meet with me, but also as we talked about 00:11:36.333 --> 00:11:39.676 degree requirements and things they need to get done, like prerequisites 00:11:39.676 --> 00:11:42.582 or specific graduation requirements, that I can look back and say, 00:11:42.582 --> 00:11:45.933 "Look on this date is when we discussed these requirements", 00:11:45.933 --> 00:11:49.593 so that's recorded if it ever, a student ever tries to petition it 00:11:49.593 --> 00:11:51.644 or question it down the road. 00:11:51.644 --> 00:11:55.354 The thing I also like to do with the notes is, as 00:11:55.354 --> 00:11:59.192 Erin mentioned, those introductory conversations asking about why 00:11:59.192 --> 00:12:02.064 they're at Western, or what their career goals are, 00:12:02.064 --> 00:12:05.443 the next time the student comes in I can review those notes before they come 00:12:05.443 --> 00:12:09.885 in and ask them kind of a follow-up on our conversations from last time. 00:12:09.885 --> 00:12:12.825 I get really funny reactions from students when I do that because 00:12:12.825 --> 00:12:16.575 they think I have this great memory, and that I just pulled that off 00:12:16.575 --> 00:12:19.044 the top of my hat, but really I just pulled it from their notes, 00:12:19.044 --> 00:12:21.675 but it really helps me keep that sense of connection with the students 00:12:21.675 --> 00:12:25.425 as we move forward, that they really do feel like I care about what's going on 00:12:25.425 --> 00:12:28.356 in their life, and I care about what they're doing with their degree, 00:12:28.356 --> 00:12:32.465 and so as we move further along their degree path 00:12:32.465 --> 00:12:35.976 and away from more of the new student, 00:12:35.976 --> 00:12:38.700 where we have to go through this is DegreeTracks, these are your generals, 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:41.037 these are your major requirements, and we move more into how do we 00:12:41.037 --> 00:12:47.447 prepare you for graduation or graduate school or internships that we've developed 00:12:47.447 --> 00:12:50.767 that rapport over time and we can kind of shift that focus. 00:12:50.767 --> 00:12:54.717 DegreeTracks is a really great tool and my expectation when I advise 00:12:54.717 --> 00:12:58.136 is early on I'll teach students very much how to use it, 00:12:58.136 --> 00:13:02.278 but then over time I want them to be using it themselves and then coming to me 00:13:02.278 --> 00:13:06.268 with questions, rather than just them assuming that I'm going to tell them. 00:13:06.268 --> 00:13:10.428 One area I think that is not very obvious for students that I always 00:13:10.428 --> 00:13:13.388 like to point out is right here at the top of the screen where it has the 00:13:13.388 --> 00:13:19.098 degree requirements, I think it's fairly straightforward to explain like 00:13:19.098 --> 00:13:21.439 the check boxes and you haven't met these degrees, 00:13:21.439 --> 00:13:24.588 but a lot of students aren't aware that you need 180 credits to graduate 00:13:24.588 --> 00:13:28.879 and you have to have so many upper division credits and if they're a transfer 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:33.290 student they have to have 45 of their last credits at Western for that to count 00:13:33.290 --> 00:13:37.121 and so they're not reaching graduation and having 11 00:13:37.121 --> 00:13:40.423 elective credits to graduate, but their lower division electives 00:13:40.423 --> 00:13:42.951 didn't count because they weren't the upper division. 00:13:42.951 --> 00:13:47.231 So that's an area both Erin and I really try to make sure students 00:13:47.231 --> 00:13:51.970 are aware of very early on that's not kind of a checklist type. 00:13:51.970 --> 00:13:56.662 The other feature of DegreeWorks, DegreeTracks, that I use fairly regularly 00:13:56.662 --> 00:14:00.211 is over on the left-hand side there's this "What If" option. 00:14:00.211 --> 00:14:04.212 This is really helpful if a student is not 100% sure if the major 00:14:04.212 --> 00:14:09.452 they're currently in is the right fit, or if they want to add a minor, 00:14:09.452 --> 00:14:13.951 and this allows them to add whatever changes they would wanna make 00:14:13.951 --> 00:14:17.682 and see what their worksheet would look like under the new requirements. 00:14:17.682 --> 00:14:20.892 Now in this test environment it doesn't let us pick the major or minor, 00:14:20.892 --> 00:14:24.023 but what you would typically do, and the student is able to do this as well, 00:14:24.023 --> 00:14:28.512 so usually I'll just show them how to do it and allow them to go and do it themselves 00:14:28.512 --> 00:14:33.284 is under the "Select Additional Areas" under the primary--make sure you pick 00:14:33.284 --> 00:14:37.593 the most recent academic year, and then under the major, select 00:14:37.593 --> 00:14:43.464 the most recent one and then you can also add a minor or a concentration. 00:14:43.464 --> 00:14:45.914 They'll show up under the chosen area of study drop list 00:14:45.914 --> 00:14:48.225 and once they have shown up there you go back up 00:14:48.225 --> 00:14:50.726 to the process "What If" button at the top. 00:14:50.726 --> 00:14:53.665 And it will look the exact same as their current worksheet just with 00:14:53.665 --> 00:14:55.866 the updated information, so the student will be able to see 00:14:55.866 --> 00:14:58.425 how close they may be to finishing a minor in one area, 00:14:58.425 --> 00:15:01.355 or how close they may be if they decide to switch majors so that 00:15:01.355 --> 00:15:06.116 can be a really helpful feature if, or another option is if they're pre-major. 00:15:06.116 --> 00:15:10.957 For example, if they're currently looking at going to pre-nursing but they 00:15:10.957 --> 00:15:14.607 want to maybe have a backup degree like biology or something else, 00:15:14.607 --> 00:15:18.686 you can do a What If for if they stay in your major that they have a plan 00:15:18.686 --> 00:15:21.877 of what they should be working on while they're maybe pursuing 00:15:21.877 --> 00:15:24.618 alternative plans at the same time. 00:15:24.953 --> 00:15:26.744 Erin: Yeah, and this brings up a really good point. 00:15:26.744 --> 00:15:29.635 One of the conversations I regularly have with students, 00:15:29.635 --> 00:15:34.075 especially early in their degree process is oftentimes they will come in 00:15:34.075 --> 00:15:36.885 and I will simply ask them you know, "How are things? 00:15:36.885 --> 00:15:38.895 How are things going with your major right now? 00:15:38.895 --> 00:15:41.235 Tell me a little about your classes." 00:15:41.235 --> 00:15:44.296 And that gives us an opportunity to have some conversations, 00:15:44.296 --> 00:15:48.060 especially when they start to recognize that maybe 00:15:48.060 --> 00:15:50.556 they want to make a change to their major. 00:15:50.556 --> 00:15:53.528 And that can be a really important conversation. 00:15:53.528 --> 00:15:57.696 I find oftentimes students aren't always comfortable opening 00:15:57.696 --> 00:16:02.317 that conversation because they mistakenly feel like they have to stay 00:16:02.317 --> 00:16:04.379 committed to their major. 00:16:04.379 --> 00:16:07.517 I have had several students worry that they would hurt my feelings 00:16:07.517 --> 00:16:09.458 by wanting to change majors. 00:16:09.458 --> 00:16:12.209 So by opening that conversation with them I think it gives them 00:16:12.209 --> 00:16:17.177 an opportunity to kind of ask the questions that they need to ask, 00:16:17.177 --> 00:16:21.990 and then we have the opportunity to investigate what happens when 00:16:21.990 --> 00:16:25.020 we want to make a change to a major. 00:16:25.020 --> 00:16:30.799 And so, the way to do that is the university Registrar's Office, 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:39.531 if you go to "Forms", there is a form, the "Major/Minor/Adviser Change Form" 00:16:39.531 --> 00:16:41.320 which is a PDF. 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.739 I think I'm clicking the right button. 00:16:43.739 --> 00:16:48.784 And so, this is an opportunity if students do decide they wanna change their major, 00:16:48.784 --> 00:16:53.860 or add a minor, or perhaps they want to choose a different catalog year 00:16:53.860 --> 00:16:57.352 because they want some, the major was just updated this year 00:16:57.352 --> 00:16:59.842 and they wanna come in under those requirements. 00:16:59.842 --> 00:17:02.481 This is the form that you use to do that. 00:17:02.481 --> 00:17:05.712 It's really straightforward, it's form-fillable, put all the 00:17:05.712 --> 00:17:10.230 student information up here, depending on what they're doing 00:17:10.230 --> 00:17:12.432 you just mark all the intended changes. 00:17:12.432 --> 00:17:16.013 Most frequently for me, that's a change of major. 00:17:16.013 --> 00:17:20.233 Occasionally it's a change of catalog year, because I advise pre-biology 00:17:20.233 --> 00:17:23.703 sometimes it's also a change of advisor. 00:17:23.703 --> 00:17:27.372 And then you can make a note of what their major is, and then what happens 00:17:27.372 --> 00:17:35.113 down here is this is going to be listed and signed by the advisor for the major 00:17:35.113 --> 00:17:37.404 that they are switching into. 00:17:37.404 --> 00:17:41.093 So if they come to see me because they want to switch into biology I would 00:17:41.093 --> 00:17:43.453 complete this and sign off on it for them. 00:17:43.453 --> 00:17:48.007 But if they are wanting to leave biology, I might get them--help them get started 00:17:48.007 --> 00:17:53.814 with this, but ultimately they are going to need to go to whatever department 00:17:53.814 --> 00:17:57.035 program is going to be taking them in. 00:17:57.035 --> 00:18:01.474 And if you're not sure about that there's a really good way to find out, 00:18:01.474 --> 00:18:06.865 and that's through the Student Success and Advising Office website, 00:18:06.865 --> 00:18:10.425 and there's this advising contact sheet. 00:18:10.425 --> 00:18:15.085 So let's imagine we wanted to find out who a student needed for biology, 00:18:15.085 --> 00:18:19.375 it's got all the information, Cinda DeVoe is our academic 00:18:19.375 --> 00:18:24.707 program administrator, we're gonna give her those forms to file. 00:18:24.707 --> 00:18:27.767 But then we can see who all the different advisers are as well. 00:18:27.767 --> 00:18:33.257 So, if for example, a student is interested in pre-med we'd wanna 00:18:33.257 --> 00:18:35.487 make sure they go see Dr. Baltzley. 00:18:35.487 --> 00:18:38.326 If they're not sure he would also be a good person to talk to because 00:18:38.326 --> 00:18:39.977 he's the department head. 00:18:39.977 --> 00:18:42.547 But let's say maybe a student is interested in botany, 00:18:42.547 --> 00:18:44.678 that would be perhaps Dr. Howard. 00:18:44.678 --> 00:18:47.512 So this gives you an opportunity to kind of help them so that 00:18:47.512 --> 00:18:49.557 they're not chasing around all over campus. 00:18:49.557 --> 00:18:51.957 This is a really helpful resource. 00:18:52.683 --> 00:18:56.133 [Nikki] And with the changing majors, 00:18:56.133 --> 00:18:59.703 once the student has taken the new form to the correct department, 00:18:59.703 --> 00:19:06.185 that department will assign the student an advisor and get the form 00:19:06.185 --> 00:19:09.434 over to the Registrar's office so that the student's curriculum is changed 00:19:09.434 --> 00:19:12.864 so that way their DegreeTracks shows up accurately. 00:19:12.864 --> 00:19:15.864 Couple things of note with the change of major form 00:19:15.864 --> 00:19:19.914 is I try to keep copies of them. 00:19:19.914 --> 00:19:22.943 Often times if it doesn't make it from the department to the 00:19:22.943 --> 00:19:25.024 Registrar's Office and the student is emailing saying, 00:19:25.024 --> 00:19:27.265 "Why hasn't my DegreeTracks updated?" 00:19:27.265 --> 00:19:29.764 Or they haven't been assigned to you as an advisee, 00:19:29.764 --> 00:19:32.497 that can cause some frustration so keeping record of when that 00:19:32.497 --> 00:19:35.218 was submitted so that you can quickly submit it again. 00:19:35.218 --> 00:19:38.956 One thing to note is if the student is coming to you and they want to change 00:19:38.956 --> 00:19:42.535 into your major, and they have an advising hold, 00:19:42.535 --> 00:19:46.527 you may not be able to remove that hold right away. 00:19:46.527 --> 00:19:49.657 One thing to note with Western Oregon University is we do 00:19:49.657 --> 00:19:53.047 require every student every term to meet with their assigned 00:19:53.047 --> 00:19:58.567 academic advisor so their changing majors and that assigned adviser changes 00:19:58.567 --> 00:20:04.617 then that may require a little bit of emailing with their current advisor. 00:20:04.617 --> 00:20:10.908 And Erin pulled up the advisor menu again and when you have a student you want 00:20:10.908 --> 00:20:15.358 to remove a hold for you go to the same advisor menu, 00:20:15.358 --> 00:20:18.768 instead of going to advisee listing you go to remove advisor hold 00:20:18.768 --> 00:20:22.439 and they'll be a check box there you can select advisee's name and remove it 00:20:22.439 --> 00:20:24.159 after you've met with them. 00:20:24.159 --> 00:20:27.018 There is a search bar you can enter a student's information, 00:20:27.018 --> 00:20:31.129 but if you get an error that says, "You do not have access to remove this hold", 00:20:31.129 --> 00:20:34.032 that's because you haven't been assigned as the advisor yet, 00:20:34.032 --> 00:20:39.940 then you can often times I'm just calling whoever their past advisor 00:20:39.940 --> 00:20:41.669 was and just say, "We met. 00:20:41.669 --> 00:20:45.250 We're changing their major. Can you remove the hold?" 00:20:45.250 --> 00:20:47.820 On kind of that same note, if a student knows that their 00:20:47.820 --> 00:20:51.150 current major is not a good fit, that they don't quite have a, 00:20:51.150 --> 00:20:55.990 "What next?", they're not necessarily need to stay 00:20:55.990 --> 00:21:00.290 in their current major that is one of the resources the 00:21:00.290 --> 00:21:03.161 Student Success and Advising Office provides at Western 00:21:03.161 --> 00:21:06.011 is advising students who are exploratory. 00:21:06.011 --> 00:21:09.160 And just in case you can't see it on the slide, 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:14.121 the website for Student Success and Advising is wou.edu/advising. 00:21:14.121 --> 00:21:18.101 We have academic success advisors who are specifically focused on advising 00:21:18.101 --> 00:21:22.562 exploratory students, and this is a big area that we wanna make sure students 00:21:22.562 --> 00:21:25.111 know it's OK that students don't know what they wanna do yet. 00:21:25.111 --> 00:21:29.441 We'd rather them start the process of exploring earlier and be OK with that 00:21:29.441 --> 00:21:32.062 uncertainty so that they make a good decision, then staying in 00:21:32.062 --> 00:21:35.367 the wrong major too long, and then maybe having it effect 00:21:35.367 --> 00:21:38.244 their GPA because their classes didn't go very well, 00:21:38.244 --> 00:21:41.693 or they get two years into a major and realize it's not a good fit. 00:21:41.693 --> 00:21:45.732 So if any students are just not sure, they have questions definitely 00:21:45.732 --> 00:21:48.704 having that conversation about why maybe it's not a good fit, 00:21:48.704 --> 00:21:53.245 but then if they need to have further conversation that's outside the realm 00:21:53.245 --> 00:21:56.265 of knowledge area and they don't have a direct area we welcome 00:21:56.265 --> 00:21:59.785 them to come see an advisor in office. 00:21:59.785 --> 00:22:02.344 We can actually change their major to "Exploratory" while their exploring 00:22:02.344 --> 00:22:04.835 so they will have an assigned adviser in our office, 00:22:04.835 --> 00:22:08.604 and we work very closely with various resources and opportunities on campus 00:22:08.604 --> 00:22:13.065 and do training to really help these students have opportunities to explore, 00:22:13.065 --> 00:22:17.724 so there are definitely is an area I encourage students to be willing 00:22:17.724 --> 00:22:22.876 to explore and usually they end up doing better if they do that earlier. 00:22:22.876 --> 00:22:25.426 So if you have any students that they're not doing well, 00:22:25.426 --> 00:22:28.136 it's not a good fit, but they just don't really know what they wanna do 00:22:28.136 --> 00:22:32.016 or what the next step would be, that is a great opportunity 00:22:32.016 --> 00:22:35.521 for us to connect with our office. 00:22:35.521 --> 00:22:38.066 [Erin] However, at some point the students 00:22:38.066 --> 00:22:40.366 are going to pick a major that's a good fit for them, 00:22:40.366 --> 00:22:44.527 they're gonna stick with that major, and they're gonna approach 00:22:44.527 --> 00:22:46.187 their graduation day. 00:22:46.187 --> 00:22:48.808 So at that point, again, one of the things I wanna make sure 00:22:48.808 --> 00:22:53.778 I do is I'm double checking that they have all of their requirements checked off. 00:22:53.778 --> 00:22:56.527 One of the things that's really nice especially as they get close 00:22:56.527 --> 00:23:00.368 and we use DegreeTracks is if they want to, for example, 00:23:00.368 --> 00:23:03.208 figure out remaining requirements like maybe I have a student 00:23:03.208 --> 00:23:10.068 who still needs to take their PE 131 they can check on this box 00:23:10.068 --> 00:23:13.678 and it'll pop up and it'll tell them what the class is and it will give 00:23:13.678 --> 00:23:15.548 them a historic record of when it has been offered. 00:23:15.548 --> 00:23:17.309 So they're likely to see here, "Oh, this class 00:23:17.309 --> 00:23:20.829 is offered pretty regularly. I shouldn't have any trouble picking it up." 00:23:20.829 --> 00:23:24.619 As opposed to a class that might not be offered all that regularly. 00:23:24.619 --> 00:23:26.419 So that can be really handy. 00:23:26.419 --> 00:23:29.880 The other thing that's great is that the Student Success and Advising Office 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:34.702 does provide guides to advising the liberal arts core curriculum so students 00:23:34.702 --> 00:23:38.511 can look at those and see what classes they need, as well. 00:23:38.511 --> 00:23:41.991 As the new general education program comes online we will have 00:23:41.991 --> 00:23:45.471 similar guides to advising that particular program. 00:23:45.471 --> 00:23:47.381 [Nikki] And the current guide is included 00:23:47.381 --> 00:23:51.791 in the handout on our website so that's attached with this presentation. 00:23:52.611 --> 00:23:54.851 [Erin] So, but in the meantime as students 00:23:54.851 --> 00:23:59.333 get closer and closer they're going to want to prepare for graduation. 00:23:59.333 --> 00:24:03.552 And the easiest way to do that is to send them back to the university 00:24:03.552 --> 00:24:07.892 Registrar's Office website and there's this fantastic turn-by-turn steps 00:24:07.892 --> 00:24:10.772 to graduation for undergraduate students. 00:24:10.772 --> 00:24:14.222 So making sure that they're aware that two terms before their graduation 00:24:14.222 --> 00:24:18.264 term they should be applying to graduate, reminding them to always double check 00:24:18.264 --> 00:24:21.143 with their advisor's to make sure they have everything checked off 00:24:21.143 --> 00:24:25.004 in DegreeTracks all the way up through what happens when they graduate. 00:24:25.004 --> 00:24:28.553 So this is a very handy resource to share with students so that they know 00:24:28.553 --> 00:24:30.574 what they need to be doing. 00:24:30.574 --> 00:24:34.473 Depending on your program there may also be some test requirements. 00:24:34.473 --> 00:24:37.474 For example, I advise students who are often times planning to apply 00:24:37.474 --> 00:24:42.635 to the Master of Arts and Teaching program, and so they have some testing 00:24:42.635 --> 00:24:47.345 requirements that they need to complete prior to application for that program. 00:24:47.345 --> 00:24:51.084 So making sure that they're aware of all those little fun quirks that specific 00:24:51.084 --> 00:24:54.216 to your academic program as they get closer 00:24:54.216 --> 00:24:56.456 to graduation can be really helpful. 00:24:58.156 --> 00:25:01.636 [Nikki] And kind of on that same note with going 00:25:01.636 --> 00:25:06.636 with a purpose of the advising appointment is that really make sure students 00:25:06.636 --> 00:25:09.726 are on track for graduation and not reaching their last year 00:25:09.726 --> 00:25:11.570 and realizing that they're six credits short, 00:25:11.570 --> 00:25:14.000 or they're missing a key requirement. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.816 So a big portion of the advising appointment opportunity is reviewing 00:25:17.816 --> 00:25:21.827 that DegreeTracks and seeing where they're missing areas. 00:25:21.827 --> 00:25:25.157 But kind of the bigger scope of that advising appointment is getting them 00:25:25.157 --> 00:25:28.957 a connection with campus and helping them be connected with resources. 00:25:28.957 --> 00:25:34.627 The Student Success and Advising Office, we work as a resource for all students 00:25:34.627 --> 00:25:37.368 in a lot of different areas, and so as you're meeting with students 00:25:37.368 --> 00:25:41.429 that maybe they're struggling with a particular class, 00:25:41.429 --> 00:25:45.808 or maybe they are having some things going on, 00:25:45.808 --> 00:25:48.238 just to kind of make you aware of some of the other resources 00:25:48.238 --> 00:25:50.838 that are available through our office, but not only that, through campus 00:25:50.838 --> 00:25:54.709 in the handout that's attached to the website with this powerpoint 00:25:54.709 --> 00:25:57.140 there is a list of common resources across campus. 00:25:57.140 --> 00:26:00.129 Everything from helping students get more engaged, like through 00:26:00.129 --> 00:26:05.709 Service Learning Career Development to maybe volunteer or career internships 00:26:05.709 --> 00:26:09.279 and things like that to you know, Student Health and Counseling Center, 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:11.030 Office of Disability Services. 00:26:11.030 --> 00:26:14.921 There's a pretty broad range of resources across campus that the advisor can 00:26:14.921 --> 00:26:19.530 kind of serve as sort of the keychain so to speak as connecting those students 00:26:19.530 --> 00:26:21.761 with those resources they may not know exist, 00:26:21.761 --> 00:26:24.680 or may be hesitant to go and explore 'cause they're, 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:28.390 they don't know somebody there so someone can help make the introduction. 00:26:28.390 --> 00:26:33.281 Student Success and Advising, couple areas that we offer is we do have, 00:26:33.281 --> 00:26:39.531 we coordinate tutoring for some of the main general education opportunities. 00:26:39.531 --> 00:26:42.292 There is a separate writing center, science center, 00:26:42.292 --> 00:26:44.810 and computer science tutoring, as well as math tutoring, 00:26:44.810 --> 00:26:49.252 so our office with tutoring focuses a lot on common general education classes. 00:26:49.252 --> 00:26:53.942 We also offer a study skills tutoring option, so if a student 00:26:53.942 --> 00:26:57.482 just wants help with time management or note-taking but they don't necessarily 00:26:57.482 --> 00:27:01.104 have a specific class they're struggling with they can meet with a tutor for that. 00:27:01.104 --> 00:27:03.722 They can also always meet with an academic success adviser to talk 00:27:03.722 --> 00:27:05.452 about study skills and that type of thing. 00:27:05.452 --> 00:27:08.114 We also have some resources on our website for students 00:27:08.114 --> 00:27:13.548 who have any questions about tutoring, they can schedule it online through WCS, 00:27:13.548 --> 00:27:15.763 the Wolf Connection System, or they can always just come 00:27:15.763 --> 00:27:20.363 and contact our office and were located in the Advising Center on the south side 00:27:20.363 --> 00:27:25.024 of the street across from the Werner University Center. 00:27:25.024 --> 00:27:29.014 Another resource with our office is as students, and this for faculty 00:27:29.014 --> 00:27:31.775 may apply also as you're teaching, if you have students that 00:27:31.775 --> 00:27:34.265 you're concerned about, they're not showing up to class, 00:27:34.265 --> 00:27:37.694 or they aren't turning in assignments, they aren't doing well on tests, 00:27:37.694 --> 00:27:40.825 you can create an alert through the Wolf Connections System to say, 00:27:40.825 --> 00:27:43.705 "We're concerned about this student", and the academic success advisors 00:27:43.705 --> 00:27:46.775 in our office will reach out and make connections with that student 00:27:46.775 --> 00:27:50.196 to see what challenges they're facing and help them get connected to campus. 00:27:50.196 --> 00:27:54.706 Basically, whenever we can we're trying to give the student as many connections 00:27:54.706 --> 00:27:57.556 to campus as possible to help them with being successful, 00:27:57.556 --> 00:28:01.106 and the Wolf Connections System allows us to maybe know which students 00:28:01.106 --> 00:28:04.397 to reach out a little bit sooner to try to help them overcome any obstacles 00:28:04.397 --> 00:28:08.426 so that's another area that our office works with. 00:28:08.426 --> 00:28:11.921 And then as I mentioned the academic standing, we also do 00:28:11.921 --> 00:28:17.328 teach a student success class so if any students are interested 00:28:17.328 --> 00:28:21.278 in really in-depth skills for learning how to be a better student 00:28:21.278 --> 00:28:23.579 we teach a class in that area, as well. 00:28:25.029 --> 00:28:27.369 [Erin] So I think one of the things 00:28:27.369 --> 00:28:31.529 that's important there as I often times wrap up an advising session with students 00:28:32.249 --> 00:28:35.800 is I will also remind them while they are required to come 00:28:35.800 --> 00:28:39.658 and see me during that advising week and I have an advising hold 00:28:39.658 --> 00:28:44.890 that I can use to force them to do so they're not limited to that time. 00:28:44.890 --> 00:28:48.510 They're always welcome to stop back by, to send me an email, 00:28:48.510 --> 00:28:51.610 occasionally during registration, for example, a class they thought 00:28:51.610 --> 00:28:55.761 they wanted to get into will be closed, they have a prerequisite error 00:28:55.761 --> 00:29:00.201 because of that funny little quirk in DegreeTracks where a course 00:29:00.201 --> 00:29:05.180 substitution won't sub out a prereq, so those kinds of things 00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:08.761 occasionally come up after we've finished our advising conversation 00:29:08.761 --> 00:29:11.725 for that term, so I like to make sure that they know the they're always 00:29:11.725 --> 00:29:13.924 welcome to come back and ask questions. 00:29:13.924 --> 00:29:17.101 And, in fact, they're not bothering me when they do that, 00:29:17.101 --> 00:29:21.061 they're saving us both a lot of time and effort because when they self-advise, 00:29:21.061 --> 00:29:24.601 if they make a mistake and something goes wrong, 00:29:24.601 --> 00:29:28.841 it's a lot more challenging for me and for them to go back 00:29:28.841 --> 00:29:31.862 and take care of that issue, whereas if they just ask 00:29:31.862 --> 00:29:34.702 we can usually figure it out together. 00:29:34.702 --> 00:29:37.221 [Nikki] And a couple other helpful notes 00:29:37.362 --> 00:29:42.402 with the advising holds that are placed on students is that those, 00:29:42.402 --> 00:29:45.482 that's something that the Student Success and Advising Office 00:29:45.482 --> 00:29:48.322 does facilitate that happens the 5th week of every term, 00:29:48.322 --> 00:29:53.393 a student receives an email with, from our office that an advising hold 00:29:53.393 --> 00:29:56.463 has been placed encouraging them to meet with their advisor. 00:29:56.463 --> 00:30:01.757 And then a couple things to note with holds, often times students 00:30:01.757 --> 00:30:04.204 will have multiple holds placed on their account. 00:30:04.204 --> 00:30:06.864 They might have an advisor hold that's cleared by you, 00:30:06.864 --> 00:30:09.254 but they might also have a hold from admissions, 00:30:09.254 --> 00:30:12.285 or a hold for doing a sexual assault training, 00:30:12.285 --> 00:30:15.904 or something from the business office, and so every time I'm meeting 00:30:15.904 --> 00:30:20.536 with a student I also encourage them to look up their holds prior to 00:30:20.536 --> 00:30:23.945 their registration time and make sure they contact the office that 00:30:23.945 --> 00:30:26.465 placed the hold to get the hold resolved. 00:30:26.465 --> 00:30:29.715 And often times those holds will be placed after the advising hold, 00:30:29.715 --> 00:30:33.295 and so whenever I'm meeting with a student I always make sure to tell them, 00:30:33.295 --> 00:30:36.195 "Check before you're registration time your holds", 00:30:36.195 --> 00:30:39.905 and students can do that by logging into the WolfWeb and they'll be a student 00:30:39.905 --> 00:30:42.695 and then student records and then a "View Holds" option. 00:30:42.695 --> 00:30:45.987 And even doing that the day before they register or the week before 00:30:45.987 --> 00:30:49.097 so that they're not caught off guard and emailing saying, 00:30:49.097 --> 00:30:51.077 "Why didn't you remove my advisor hold?" 00:30:51.077 --> 00:30:54.466 And we check and we did but they had some other holds placed on there, 00:30:54.466 --> 00:30:58.326 so that's another thing I like to check when I'm meeting with students is to just 00:30:58.326 --> 00:31:01.840 make them aware that there may be other holds and they should've received 00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:04.837 emails about it, but in case they missed that to always check. 00:31:04.837 --> 00:31:09.888 And then advising, another piece that I've seen faculty advisors do is to talk 00:31:09.888 --> 00:31:13.188 to students about when they will register 'cause it's assigned based 00:31:13.188 --> 00:31:15.778 on how many credits, but it's broken down into several 00:31:15.778 --> 00:31:19.237 different time slots based on they're day and so students 00:31:19.237 --> 00:31:21.619 can see their registration time also in WolfWeb. 00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:24.898 They receive an email about that so just letting the student to watch 00:31:24.898 --> 00:31:30.039 for an email about their registration time, but also how to go into WolfWeb, 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.079 click on Student, click on Registration, and it will tell them 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:34.609 when their time ticket is. 00:31:34.609 --> 00:31:39.030 So not trying to register the day of, that kind of leads into another just 00:31:39.030 --> 00:31:42.729 with advising it helps students to kind of just be aware of important dates 00:31:42.729 --> 00:31:46.910 and deadlines like maybe when the drop deadline is, when the add deadline is, 00:31:46.910 --> 00:31:50.769 and all of that information can be found on the main Western page, 00:31:50.769 --> 00:31:52.949 but also on the Registrar's Office page. 00:31:52.949 --> 00:31:55.920 So a lot of advising is just helping students be aware of some 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:58.879 of those university policies and dates and deadlines so that 00:31:58.879 --> 00:32:03.570 if they have concerns or challenges that they're able to take care of those 00:32:03.570 --> 00:32:07.061 and not be emailing you the day after the withdraw deadline saying, 00:32:07.061 --> 00:32:09.899 "I didn't know that there was a deadline." 00:32:09.899 --> 00:32:13.301 And so those are just some resources to help with making students aware 00:32:13.301 --> 00:32:15.532 of when you're meeting with them. 00:32:15.532 --> 00:32:20.862 [Erin] So those are sort of the basic things that 00:32:20.862 --> 00:32:23.382 may come up during an advising session. 00:32:23.382 --> 00:32:26.771 Every student is different so every advising session is different. 00:32:26.771 --> 00:32:29.992 If you have questions, it's always good to talk to 00:32:29.992 --> 00:32:33.224 the more experienced advisors in your department, 00:32:33.224 --> 00:32:36.383 but just to reiterate the Student Success and Advising Office 00:32:36.383 --> 00:32:40.323 is a wonderful resource that can be really, really helpful 00:32:40.323 --> 00:32:44.993 in getting your students succeeding towards graduating as well. 00:32:45.619 --> 00:32:47.883 [Nikki] And I am always welcome to talk 00:32:47.883 --> 00:32:51.187 with people one on one for strategies and we're hoping over time 00:32:51.187 --> 00:32:54.893 to be able to get more and more resources put together to create kind 00:32:54.893 --> 00:32:57.944 of a resource library for advisors so that you don't have to try 00:32:57.944 --> 00:33:00.464 to remember everything, you can refer back to it. 00:33:00.464 --> 00:33:03.915 I do agree with Erin that if you have the opportunity to sit in 00:33:03.915 --> 00:33:07.984 with a current faculty adviser, maybe someone who actually advised 00:33:07.984 --> 00:33:11.294 some of the students you will be seeing to help with that transition, 00:33:11.294 --> 00:33:13.044 that's a great training opportunity. 00:33:13.044 --> 00:33:16.395 And just never being afraid to ask questions is one thing I've learned 00:33:16.395 --> 00:33:19.146 with this university is everyone is very willing to help. 00:33:19.146 --> 00:33:22.806 So rather than be unsure, feel free to reach out to the Registrar's Office, 00:33:22.806 --> 00:33:28.286 Financial Aid, any of those areas just to try to help the student be bounced 00:33:28.286 --> 00:33:33.276 around from office to office and get the resources from you as their advisor 00:33:33.276 --> 00:33:36.287 and that there's a lot of resources available to help you, 00:33:36.287 --> 00:33:40.036 so you don't feel like you have to know everything that you're not gonna reach 00:33:40.036 --> 00:33:42.887 out to if you have questions. 00:33:42.887 --> 00:33:46.516 If you have any suggestions for further training that you would like to see, 00:33:46.516 --> 00:33:49.736 or discussions you would like to have as advising that is something 00:33:49.736 --> 00:33:55.037 I would like to hear, so feel free to email me, my email is Weight, 00:33:55.037 --> 00:33:59.917 W-E-I-G-H-T-N@wou.edu, or feel free to come see me in the advising center. 00:34:00.377 --> 00:34:02.177 [Erin] And we wish you good success 00:34:02.177 --> 00:34:04.588 with advising!