Mission Impossible? Advising and Institutional Culture
The structure of undergraduate advising at private institutions that offer degrees beyond the baccalaureate level is considered. Shared advising models are found to be suitable for highly selective, extensive doctoral institutions with sizeable full-time undergraduate populations and relatively basic programmatic structures. Similar but more pro-grammatically complex institutions with larger full-time undergraduate populations might benefit more from the decentralized satellite model. Smaller, less selective, more residential, liberal arts institutions may find the decentralized faculty-only model most appropriate.
Contributor Notes
Marlene S. Kuhtmann is a doctoral student in the Higher Education Administration program at Boston College. She is also an administrative fellow in Boston College's Office of the Academic Vice President. Ms. Kuhtmann's research interests include the intersection of institutional culture and academic advising as well as the examination of institutional efforts to facilitate developmental advising. Interested readers may contact Ms. Kuhtmann via E-mail at marlene.kuhtmann.1@bc.edu.
The author extends gratitude to her faculty advisor, Dr. Karen Arnold, for her support of this article.
