Academic Advising in the Community College Quotes

“In addition, colleges may want to consider structure, processes, and attitudes when planning for change.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“Students are required to participate in activities that result in the selection of their major, program, and career.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“Staff must intentionally employ advising theory and best practices from across the country whenever possible.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“At Valencia, like many colleges, the highest student attrition occurs within the first fifteen credit hours of a student’s experience with college; most student failures (and institutional failures) are at the “front door” (Shugart, 2016).”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“Achieve their first fifteen college-level credits.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“A thirty-credit-hour required advisor check-in milestone”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“The work now focused on providing support to students after they had successfully completed fifteen credit hours but before completing forty-five hours and nearing graduation.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“If a college wants to improve the opportunities for student success—in a student’s first term and through completion—the student must experience all five steps of the academic advising process.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“The process of academic advising includes the following dimensions or steps: (1) exploration of life goals, (2) exploration of vocational goals, (3) program choice, (4) course choice, and (5) course scheduling.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“The purpose of academic advising is to help students select a program of study to meet their life and vocational goals.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College

“Never in the history of the community college has such a goal had so much financial support from philanthropic organizations; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alone has allocated $500 million to this effort.”
― Terry U O'Banion, Academic Advising in the Community College