Faculty Advising
Upcoming Faculty Workshops
The Academic Advising and Planning Center invites you to attend our Faculty Academy!
These workshops will cover commonly-accepted theories of academic advising, how to apply them to the academic policies of the College of Charleston, and the information systems and Web-based tools utilized by the College of Charleston for academic advising.
The following sessions will be available:
Fall 2024
Wednesday, October 2nd @ 10:30 AM-Noon, Room 227 Addlestone Library
Wednesday, October 2nd @ 1:30 PM-3 PM, Room 227 Addlestone Library
Spring 2025
Tuesday, February 25th @ 10:30 AM-Noon, Room 227 Addlestone Library
Tuesday, February 25th @ 1:30 PM-3 PM, Room 227 Addlestone Library
The Faculty Academy is an event hosted by the AAPC to assist new faculty advisors in hosting effective advising sessions with your student advisees. This session will focus on effective advising strategies using the National Academic Advising Association core competencies and values of academic advising, as well as utilizing available technology.
You may have heard that Advising is Teaching. This session will provide ideas for transitioning the same teaching concepts from the classroom to your individual advising sessions with students, as well as ways to use technology to make it all the more effective. To RSVP to this event, please use this link. We look forward to having you join us!
If you are unable to attend one of these workshops, you can request a workshop specifically for your academic department. Contact John Sare, Associate Director of the Academic Advising and Planning Center.
Faculty Advising Academy
Faculty Advising Academy began in Fall 2016 as an opportunity to provide a discussion-based advising development experience around advising-related topics for new and seasoned faculty who are responsible for advising and mentoring students, both formally and informally.
Advising Academy Workshops are crafted to fit within three advising competencies as identified by NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising: Conceptual, Informational, and Relational.
- Conceptual: what is academic advising, advising as mentoring, advising as teaching, expectations of students and their advisees;
- Informational: academic policies and procedures, technology resources, documentation, how to make a referral;
- Relational: effective communication with advisees, having difficult conversations, understanding students’ challenges.