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Advisor Role and Responsibility

• Help students clarify and develop realistic educational/career plans.
• Assist students in planning an academic program consistent with their abilities and interests.
• Monitor student progress toward educational/career goals.
• Discuss and reinforce linkages and relationships between instructional programs and occupations/careers.
• Interpret and provide rationale for academic policies, procedures, and requirements.
• Approve designated educational transactions (e.g., schedule, drops and adds, withdrawals. change of major, waivers, and graduation requirements).
• Maintain an advising file for each advisee.
• Refer students when academic, attitudinal, attendance, or other personal problems require intervention by other campus professionals.
• Inform students of the nature of the advisor/advisee relationship.
• Request reassignment of advisee to another advisor if necessary.
• Assist advisees in identifying internship or graduate study opportunities.
• Develop a caring relationship with advisees.
• Inform students of special services available to them for remediation, academic assistance, and other needs.
• Keep advising office hours.

Advisee Responsibilities

Advisees have the following responsibilities:

• Clarify their personal values, abilities, interests, and goals.
• Contact and make an appointment with the advisor when required or when in need of assistance. If the student finds it impossible to keep the appointment, the student will notify the advisor.
• Become knowledgeable of and adhere to institutional policies, procedures, and requirements.
• Prepare for advising sessions and bring appropriate resources or materials.
• Follow through on actions identified during each advising session.
• Evaluate the advising system, when requested, in order to strengthen the advising process.
• Request reassignment to a different advisor if necessary.
• Accept final responsibility for all decisions.

The following statement on how advisors and advisees should work together was contained in the advising handbook of Lynchburg College.