Adviser's Handbook

1: Nuts and Bolts

• Responsibilities of Advisers
• Information about Your Advisee
• FERPA (Confidentiality of Student Records)
• College Philosophy and Policy
• Forms and Calendars
• Graduating on Time: Overview of Regulations
• Catching up on Credits when a Student Falls Behind
• Committee on Academic Standing
• Changing Advisers
• Advising Records After Graduation
• Setting Expectations with Advisees — Advising Syllabus

2: Planning

• Understanding the Liberal Arts
• Advising the First-Year Student for Registration
• Interpreting Test Scores
• The Four-Year Plan
• Departmental Advising and Registration Suggestions
• Interdisciplinary Study
• Preprofessional and Career Advising
• Off-Campus Study
• MAPs and Other Research Opportunities
• Internship Guidelines
• Major Declaration and the Major Adviser
• The Undirected Student
• The Second Adviser — Partnering
• Professional, Personal, and Civic Development — Partnering with the Center for Careers, Life, and Service

3: Technique

• Adviser, Sponsor, Mentor
• Approaches to Inclusive Advising
• Advising Students with Disabilities
• Advising International Students
• First-Generation College Students
• Transfer Students
• Challenges You May Encounter
• Academic Progress Reports
• Students on Academic Probation
• Partnering with Colleagues on Campus
• Academic Resources at Grinnell

4: Advising in Practice Resources

Resources for faculty advisers are available on GrinnellShare (login required).