Academic Advising as Perceived by Business Students
Business students' perceptions concerning several academic advising resources are presented. Using a Likert scale, students evaluated resources such as their academic advisor, course instructors, staffs, friends, and parents as well as the university catalog and the Foundations of Business Administration (FBA) course. Selected demographic information was also collected. Results show that students ranked the FBA course, which provides an overview of an individual's 4-year study plan, as the most helpful. The course instructors and academic advisors were ranked second and fourth, respectively. Enrollment status, declared major, and gender were related to students' views on some advising resources, but transfer status was not. Moreover, we found some connection between the effectiveness of advising resources perceived by students and the students' developmental stages.
Relative Emphasis: practice, research, theory
Contributor Notes
Margaretha Hsu, PhD, is professor of the Department of Finance and Information Management & Analysis at Shippensburg University where she teaches both business statistics and data-mining courses. Her research interests are mostly in the areas of applied statistics. She can be reached at mmhsu@ship.edu.
April Bailey is an assistant professor in the John L. Grove College of Business. Ms. Bailey received her MBA from Shippensburg University and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Penn State University, University Park, PA. Her research interests are the nontraditional student and understanding more about first-year students' transition to college. She can be reached at aebail@ship.edu.
