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Contact
Information:
Career & Advising Services
Reid Centennial Hall,
Room 110
208-792-2313
Debra Lybyer, Director
dlybyer@lcsc.edu
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- Accurate
Information
What students want most out of an academic advisor is
accurate information. This includes answering the
questions the student knows to ask and the questions the
student doesn't know to ask.
- Clarify
Academic and Career Goals
- 50 to 75% of
today’s students will change their major at least
once. On average, a student changes majors five (5)
times before they graduate.
- Advisors need to
work closely with students to make sure that a
student’s career goals are going to be satisfied by
their academic choices.
- Advisors needs to
be aware of the student’s chances for success.
Advisors need to be conscious of the criteria for
the student’s degree plan, and be able to assess the
student’s academic possibilities to meet those goals
and expectations. If the advisor determines that a
student will not be able to complete the degree
plan, it is his/her responsibility to help the
student find alternatives.
- Awareness of
Student Growth and Development
- We have the
wonderful challenge of dealing with a variety of
students, from first-time, first-year freshmen, to
transfer students, international students, returning
students even young high school students. You must
ask yourself, "Are those students who are entering
your department being well-served? What types of
students are entering your departments? Are they
moving through your department and completing their
degrees? Is there support within the department for
students in academic difficulty?"
- Advisors need to
continue to grow and develop professionally in order
to better serve students.
- Moving from
Advisor-Based to Student-Oriented Decisions
The
advisor should take a critical role in helping students
make decisions early in their academic career. The
emphasis is on allowing students to make their own
decisions, while the advisor is there for consultation.
- Connecting
Students to the Campus
"The key to freshman success is involvement...to
succeed, freshmen must be committed to involving
themselves in the intellectual and extracurricular life
of the campus." Students that feel a connection and
involvement with the college they are attending are more
likely to remain there and graduate. LCSC has much to
offer students who have an active interest in becoming
more involved on campus. Encouraging
campus activities,
when appropriate to a student's time and lifestyle,
could be the simplest but most-effective way to maintain
retention at LCSC.
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