This article explores the critical role advisors play in student success and strategies for ensuring that institutions retain them. By using an Appreciative Advising Framework, supervisors can support the advisors on their teams in co-creating their professional narratives leading to greater job satisfaction, staff retention, and better advising.

This article explores the dynamics of student engagement in small institutions, emphasizing their unique community-centered approach. Particularly in the post-pandemic era, where personalized support systems have become crucial, small institutions are reevaluating their strategies to enhance student empowerment and connection. Key aspects examined…

This chapter explores the impact of academic advising on rural students' sense of belonging in college and outlines opportunities to provide further institutional support for rural students.

The chapter provides guidance on culturally sensitive assessment for international students' mental health. By considering international students' unique background and experiences, mental health professionals, as well as faculty, advisors, and student affairs staff, can more accurately and effectively assess international students' mental health…

The purpose of this chapter is to propose multicultural gender-aware counseling practices from an intersectionality perspective to advising Mexican-American men in the community college who live a transborder lifestyle in the San Diego-Tijuana region.

Academic and career development for Asian American students is complicated by cultural influences, interdependence with family, and racial stereotyping. This chapter highlights research, theory, and practice to help educators rethink traditional advising approaches to more appropriately work with Asian American students as they navigate their…

This chapter explores components necessary for creating an institutionally based action plan that supports commuter student success.

This chapter describes how career services professionals and academic advising units can partner to serve college students. Observations are also provided regarding the role of advising and best practices to meet the growing need for a shared approach to the academic and career needs of students.

Education abroad is a rapidly expanding opportunity for undergraduate students in the United States. Concurrent with this growth in total numbers is a growth in the diversity of participants. Students with different ethnic backgrounds, academic majors, age, socioeconomic status, and disabilities are increasingly seeking opportunities overseas. In…

African American students account for nearly 8 percent of all college students graduating with bachelor's degrees from U.S. colleges and universities (National Center for Education Statistics, 1998). The majority of African American students in U.S. colleges and universities attend predominantly white institutions (National Center for Education…

This chapter presents a hypothetical situation related to students who are displaced by Hurricane Katrina. It focuses on transition issues for the students as they are relocated to a new college for an undetermined length of time.

Places the interactional model of disability in the context of student development theory, asserting that interactions between the individual and campus environment have a profound influence on retention and completion for a disabled student. Relates various service delivery approaches to the interactional model and suggests how career and…

Considers the various roles that a faculty advisers plays in the three identified stages of a student's graduate education: beginning, middle, and the dissertation stage. Looks at each stage as a process of educational and developmental change. Focuses on faculty sponsorship, peers, financial assistance, intellectual interests, comprehensive…

Provides a history of advising and counseling for college athletes and a discussion of current issues, followed by a model for advising and counseling student athletes. Recommends that athletic programs consider reviewing and revising their approach to advising and counseling student athletes to include the components of academic advising, life…