Increasing student retention is complex and no one single intervention can independently
solve the student success problem; however, academic advising has been cited more …

Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary. com)© 2012 by American
College Personnel Association and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DOI: 10.1002/abc. 20082 “whAt …

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 term" advising" has been used by various areas within post-secondary education
institutions in British Columbia (BC) and across Canada to describe a variety of activities …

Many theoretical lenses contribute to an academic advisor's endeavor to facilitate student
learning. Self-authorship theory, a relatively new developmental perspective on human …

An examination of the history of academic advising reveals six different proposed purposes
competing for primacy. Marc Lowenstein's learning-centered theory of academic advising …

Academic counseling is a collaborative process that addresses the needs, problems, and
interests of higher education students. The objective of the study was to investigate …

Since 2009 almost 90% of the surveyed college freshmen have identified" getting a better
job" as a major reason for attending college (Pryor et al). College educators can help …

This essay examines the convergence between enduring ideals enshrined in the American
tradition of general education that many faculty members endorse and the learning-centered …

How shall we answer questions about academic advising? For most of its relatively short
history as a field of scholarly inquiry, the answer to that question has been to engage in …