Practitioners and scholars of academic advising have long grappled with the professional
status of the field. To better understand the characteristics of professionalization and the …

This article is a literature review of mentoring and higher education academic literature from
2008-2018. The review analyzed what makes an effective mentor and what are the …

Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence
(Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role …

Practicing advisors may not agree, know, or understand that advising does not meet the
scholarly definition of a profession. Through a phenomenological study, members of …

Previous research on advising outreach, including intrusive or proactive advising, suggests
required advising improves contact frequency, student retention, and academic …

Through the professionalization process, an occupation transforms into a profession.
Although much scholarship has situated academic advising as a professional endeavor, in …

As higher education leaders, chief academic officers are capable of affecting the ways
advising is structured and performed on college campuses, but little is known about how …

In an effort to promote the advancement of the advising profession, this study examines
trends related to current knowledge of academic advising and the relationships between …

This paper sets forth the main principles of a theory of advising. This theory, explained more
fully later in the paper, holds advising to be fundamentally a learning activity in which …

The purpose of this study was to share the design and development case of Advising Virtual
Assistant (AVA), a chatbot created to provide support in academic advising in higher …