A Survey of Undergraduate Student Reactions to Academic Advising
At the midwestern land-grant university under study, undergraduate academic advising is part of the teaching mission and under the purview of the academic deans. In the decentralized system used, academic advising is delivered via full-time professional advisors in advising centers serving entire colleges or multiple curricula, full-time professional departmental advisors, and faculty advisors. Evaluation data collected annually from over 17,000 undergraduate advisees are used to compare the three advising methods with regard to student utilization of advising services, reasons for not utilizing advising services, and student evaluations of the advising received.
Contributor Notes
Michael Lynch is Associate Vice President for Educational and Personal Development and Associate Professor of Counseling Educational Psychology at Kansas State University. He is a past editor of the NACADA Journal and past NACADA Special Publications Editor. He also serves as Coordinator of Academic Advising Initiatives at Kansas State University where he oversees a number of initiatives designed to enhance academic advising. A copy of the survey screens may be obtained by contacting the author at mlynch@ksu.edu.
