This monograph is designed to provide a blueprint to educators on how to improve academic advising for first-year college students. Seventeen chapters are: (1) "First-Year Students: The Year 2000" (Wesley Habley); (2) "Insights from Theory: Understanding First-Year Student Development" (M. Lee Upcraft); (3) "Creating Successful Transitions Through Academic Advising" (Eric R. White and others); (4) "Organizing and Delivering Academic Advising for First-Year Students" (Margaret C. King and Thomas J. Kerr); (5) "Using Information Technology to Enhance First-Year Student Advising" (Gary L. Kramer); (6) "Advising Alliances: Faculty and First-Year Students Team Up for Success" (Susan H. Frost); (7) "Faculty Mentoring: A Key to First-Year Student Success" (Gary L. Kramer and others); (8) "Selecting, Training, Rewarding, and Recognizing Faculty Advisors" (Robert E. Glennen and Faye N. Vowell); (9) "Reach-Out Advising Strategies for First-Year Students" (Derrell Hart); (10) "Academic Advising Through Learning Communities: Bridging the Academic-Social Divide" (Anne Goodsell Love and Vincent Tinto); (11) "Advising First-Year Undecided Students" (Virginia Gordon); (12) "Advising Underprepared First-Year Students" (Nancy Gray Spann and others); (13) "Advising and Orientation Programs for Entering Adult Students" (Elizabeth G. Creamer and others); (14) "Pluralistic Advising: Facilitating the Development and Achievement of First-Year Students of Color" (Thomas Brown and Mario Rivas); (15) "Assessment of Academic Advising" (M. Lee Upcraft and others); (16) "Academic Advising: A Compendium of Evaluation Instruments" (Debra S. Srebnik and Jennifer Stevenson); and (17) "Perspectives on Academic Advising for First-Year Students: Present and Future" (John N. Gardner). Three appendixes provide a statement of core values of academic advising, a taxonomy of advising services, and an annotated bibliography. Each chapter contains a reference list. (MDM)