Computer Communications for Advisors
Many colleges and universities in the U. S. are electronically linked to the internet, the worldwide web of computer networks. Advisors can begin to use internet resources by subscribing to the user-friendly academic advising forum called ACADV. Through ACADV, advisors participate in a daily discussion group that connects them with colleagues around the world. After an advisor who is a new internet user becomes comfortable with ACADV, many other network resources can be explored. Abstruse computer terms and abbreviations such as e-mail, Usenet, Telnet, and FTP will become familiar and meaningful after only a short time. Advisors who learn the terms and concepts enabling them to communicate via computer effectively will discover much of value in the world of computer-mediated communications.
Contributor Notes
Joseph Hart is Coordinator of the University Advising Center. He wishes to thank George Ball, Professor of Computer Science at Alfred University, and Harold Caldwell, Coordinator of Arts and Communications Advising at Ball State University, for helpful crittques of early drafts of the manuscript. He also thanks Howard Schein who incisively edited early drafts.
Readers who would like to obtain a much-expanded version of this article (“More Computer Communications for Advisors”), distributed as a NACADA Journal Supplement, can request a free copy by writing to George Steele, Director, National Clearinghouse for Academic Advising, Ohio State University, University College, 207 Enarson Hall, 154 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210. The long version can also be obtained electronically by FTPing NIC. CSU. NET, in the directory CSUNETISHARED—FILESIJOE—HART, with the command GET NACADA-JSUPP. TXT (or GET NACADAJSUPP. PS for the postscript version). The Supplement contains resource information about hundreds of discussion groups, tips about wing computer-mediated communications effectively, and alternate modes of access to the internet.
Address correspondence concerning this article to Joseph Hart, 1-113, 3801 West Temple Avenue, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA 91768-4002. Fax: (909) 869-4151. Internet: JTHART@CSUPO-MONA.EDU or JTHART@DELPHI.COM or JHART@CTP.ORG.
