In spring 1984, a study was conducted at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) in Trenton, New Jersey, to determine the difference between the quality of academic advisement for day and evening students. At the time of the study, MCCC enrolled approximately 10,500 full- and part-time students. One-third of these students attended day sessions, and two-thirds attended evening sessions. Students were surveyed in randomly selected day and evening classes to determine their perceptions and expectations of advisors' specific functions and roles; to gather information concerning their contacts with their advisor; and to solicit open-ended comments. Study findings, based on responses from 430 day students and 171 evening students, included the following: (1) only 16% of both day and evening students met three times or more with their academic advisors; (2) 59.4% indicated that the college catalog was the most valuable source of information for selecting courses, compared with 11% who considered the advisor to be the most helpful information source; (3) 35% of the day students and 27% of the evening students felt their advisor was approachable and easy to talk to; (4) 77% of the day students and 64% of the evening students indicated that their advisor was available and on time for appointments most or all of the time; and (5) 58% of the evening students reported that their advisor rarely or never assisted them in exploring occupational or professional plans. The survey instrument is appended. (AJL)