Essential Elements of Academic Advising

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Essential Elements of Academic Advising

• Student Engagement Retention Workshop
• _at_ Cape Fear Community College
• Percell W. Hobbs
• Interim Coordinator of Academic Advisors
• Central Piedmont Community College
• June 17, 2008

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CPCCs Academic Advising Model
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Peer Advisors

• Learn the college
• Getting involve with student activities
• Encourage and support each other
• Cheerleaders

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Academic Advisors

• Advocators
• Promote learning
• Coaches
• Cheerleaders

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Counselors

• Recognize self
• Cultivate Learning
• Coaches
• Cheerleaders

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Faculty Advisors

• Produce critical thinkers
• Managers of their educational ambitions
• Coaches
• Cheerleaders

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Keep It Simple

• Compose information with simplicity so that
  students can grasp it easier.
• Relieve frustrated students who place into
  developmental courses and/or attending a
  community college.

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Reconceptualize Vocabulary

• Utilize vocabulary that relates to students
  cultural capital in order to assist them in
  maneuvering through the system (30).
• Demonstrate terminology
• Catalog
• Schedule
• Syllabus
• Register

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Works Cited

• Carrie M Bourdon Rozana Carducci. What
  works in the Community Colleges A Synthesis of
  the Literature on Best Practices. University of
  California, Los Angeles Graduate School of
  Education, Higher Education and Organizational
  Change Division (December 2002).