Colleges Should Care More About Advising Students

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Many college students fail to graduate in four years and one of the reasons why is that they often get poor advice from those people who are supposed to guide them.

In today’s Martin Center article, Megan Zogby looks at this problem.

She quotes the executive director of the National Academic Advising Association: “research clearly shows that when a student is more engaged on campus they are more likely to remain enrolled and persist to graduation. Academic advising is the key mechanism, and on many campuses, the only mechanism, through which students have a person they’re connected with.”

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Sadly, excellent advising is not a high priority at many colleges and universities. After all, if students stay around longer because they’ve taken unnecessary courses or switched majors, that’s good for the bottom line.

Here’s one example Zogby gives: “An anonymous NC State junior studying biology told the Martin Center that her advisors said she did not need to take a microbiology lab class to get into Physicians Assistant school, so she took microbiology without the lab. But after the semester, a classmate clarified that she needed a lab course for PA school. If her advisors had given her accurate information, she could’ve saved time and done better.”

One university that has improved its advising is Arizona State, which has created a portal to make it easier for students to make the best course choices.

Zogby concludes that this is an incentives problem, writing, “For some colleges, advising problems could be solved by following Arizona State’s tech lead. For others, the problem may be with who advises students, or overloading professors without incentivizing high-quality advising. It may make sense to offer better pay for professors (part-time or tenure-track) who take on advising responsibilities. Some sort of incentive may do the trick in shifting students from poor advisors to better ones, keeping both students and advisors happy.”

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

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4 Comments

  1. College is a business and as such should have a stake in the benefit of their product to their customer. In other businesses that is called Accounts Receivable and poor Credit Management results in Bad Debts. A business approves credit extension because they believe the customer will be profitable and be able to meet their obligation.

  2. Interesting that colleges and universities have become institutes of avarice, but at the same time promoting socialist views and values. The hypocrisy is untenable. Students and parents of students do not get their money’s worth. The administering of colleges and universities should be seriously looked at, and changes made to reacquaint administrators and teaching personnel with what these institutes should truly represent…you know, freedom of thought and freedom of speech.

  3. The advisor they have seem to be more into political activism rather than advising student in life skill goals. Pretty sad

  4. Betsy DeVos The billionaire “DO NOTHING” Republican destroying public education. Cowards are what the Republicans are, DeVos meets with hostility and cowers if she can’t do the job or won’t do the job Fire her and put a Man with B……s to stand up and fight the Communist now running our education system make grade schools teach Our Children about America and rid Our Nation of this HERD / COMMUNIST sickness. Remove Henry Kissinger and charge him along with George Soros and the Communists that have infiltrated our Great Nation and our Government.

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