Academic advising can teach students how to engage with post-secondary curricula and connect curricular engagement to career exploration and lifelong learning. However, academic advising is both a one-on-one activity and a systemic enterprise, and institutions should thoroughly communicate the benefits and functions of advising on official…

Academic advising, if done effectively, can play a significant role in supporting student retention. However, as a relatively new field in South Africa, there is limited locally contextualised research into advising interventions and their effectiveness. So, there is a need for evidence-based approaches that will lead to more intentionally…

This article focuses on the role of theory and assessment in shaping student services and support through collaboration between student and academic affairs. Specifically, this paper highlights the use of a first-year student assessment tool that informs student support practices in the College of Agriculture at Louisiana State University (LSU).…

This study examined how 10 Latinx students perceived their sense of belonging in engineering programs. Drawing upon Strayhorn's definition of sense of belonging, we sought to understand the experiences and individuals that facilitated Latinx students' connections to their engineering programs and to the larger campus community at a 4-year…

U.S.-educated English learners (US-ELs) who aspire to obtain a bachelor's degree are often guided by their high school counselors to attend community colleges first, and are assured that they can always transfer to a university later. However, the literature on US-ELs' community college transfer is virtually nonexistent. This 13-month…

The multitude of benefits of college student retention for individuals, higher education institutions as well as our society has caused many researchers, administrators and policy makers to examine the causes of college student attrition as well as interventions that can potentially increase the success of students in post-secondary education.…

While the internationalization of American higher education has seen significant growth in the past decade, little is known about the advisor-advisee relationship in American transnational institutions and, more specifically, at American-style institutions abroad. This quantitative study examined students' expectations of and satisfaction with…

The following article discusses Syracuse University's process to overhaul advising practices to better serve students. The initiative included improving advisor training and coordinating advising across all schools and colleges as well as integrating advising with career services. The process engaged theuniversity's strategic plan goals of serving…

Educators and teacher educators can develop blind spots to professional ideas and issues. Objectivity may come through the eyes of someone outside the profession. This study looked at a higher education advisor studying education, but who had no intention to apply for licensure nor to teach. She participated in a materials development project to…

In this article, we present a programmatic model to develop College Access Literacy (CAL) among both students and educators. University faculty developed a six-module curriculum delivered through existing Professional Development School partnerships in afterschool seminars for high school juniors and separate class periods for other high school…

Nearly 40 years after the creation of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising and at least as many years after academic advising was recognized as a unique role in higher education, the term academic advising as applied to individuals who work in higher education has been only colloquially defined. Using the analytic induction research…

College athletics is a complex, revenue generating industry within the United States higher education system. This commercialized segment of education generated 9 billion dollars of income in 2015 from the efforts of 482,533 student athletes (Gains, 2016; NCAA, 2015). This system creates a unique spectrum characterized on one end by the insatiable…

International students' experiences with academic advising is worth studying because the number of international students is growing significantly in the United States of America (USA) even though studies show that, upon arrival, international students experience cultural, social, academic, and psychological issues including homesickness, anxiety,…

Disability support (DS) offices provide accommodations for and serve qualified students with disabilities. The overall number of students with disabilities in higher education is increasing, creating a need for high-impact, effective support. Proactive advising is a method of support that provides college students tools for success before crises…

Student participation in extracurricular activities has been proven to be as an important element in personal development and become an indicator of their competencies in relation to their future career success. However, participation in extracurricular activities is not systematically recorded and is difficult to be used for planning and…