Academic Advising Student Learning Outcomes

What we want students to DO

Students will...

  • Consult with an academic adviser
  • Clarify and discuss interests, abilities, values, and goals
  • Access and utilize official sources of academic information
  • Gather information on and engage in co-curricular opportunities and community involvement
  • Connect interests, abilities, values, and goals to the university curriculum
  • Evaluate and incorporate information to construct academic goals and make decisions on their educational plans

What we want students to KNOW

Students will...

  • Articulate their personal decision-making process
  • Articulate an understanding of entrance to major requirements and program requirements
  • Identify relationships of individual courses to others in the overall curriculum and co-curriculum
  • Identify challenges in learning and how to mitigate them
  • Identify strengths in learning and how to build on them
  • Have awareness of opportunities that promote engagement in global concepts and ideas
  • Evaluate appropriateness and fit of engaged scholarship opportunities to overall goals

What we want students to APPRECIATE/VALUE

Students will...

  • Take ownership of their academic outcomes
  • Articulate personal motivations and reasons for participating in higher education
  • Question individual assumptions and articulate the value of every learner’s unique perspective
  • Articulate ways in which they can contribute to, and impact, their communities
  • Reflect on the personal and academic value of participation in engaged scholarship