Book

Academic advising : a comprehensive handbook / Virginia N. Gordon, Wesley R. Habley, Thomas J. Grites, and Associates.

Gordon, Virginia N. (Added Author). Habley, Wesley R. (Added Author). Grites, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1944- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780470371701 (bound)
Physical Description: xxx, 568 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : Jossey-Bass/a Wiley Imprint, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Historical foundations of academic advising / Terry L. Kuhn -- Theoretical foundations of academic advising / Peter L. Hagen and Peggy Jordan -- Ethical foundations of academic advising / Marc Lowenstein -- Legal foundations of academic advising / Mary M. Richard -- Advising for student success / George D. Kuh -- Advising as teaching and learning / Drew C. Appleby -- Advising for career and life planning / Paul A. Gore, and A.J. Metz.

The changing college student / Kirsten Kennedy, Jennifer Crissman Ishler -- Moving into college / Mary Stuart Hunter and Leah Kendall -- Moving through college / George E. Steele and Melinda L. McDonald -- Moving on from college / Jennifer Bloom -- Students with specific advising needs / Blane Harding -- Advising students of color and international students / Evette Castillo Clark and Jane Kalionzes. -- Vision, mission, goals, and program objectives for academic advising programs / Susan M. Campbell -- Organization of academic advising services / Margaret C. King -- Advising delivery : faculty advising / Martha K. Hemwall -- Advising delivery : professional advisors, counselors, and other staff / Casey Self -- Advising delivery : group strategies / Nancy S. King -- Advising delivery : using technology / Michael J. Leonard.

Critical concepts in advisor training and development / Thomas Brown -- Tools and resources for advisors / Pat Folsom -- Delivering one-to-one advising : skills and competencies / Rusty Fox -- Assessing student learning / John H. Schuh -- Assessing advisor effectiveness / Joe Cuseo -- Assessing the effectiveness of the advising program / Wendy G. Troxel -- Recognition and reward for academic advising in theory and in practice / Jayne K. Drake -- Campus administrator perspectives on advising / James E. Bultman and Faye N. Vowell, Jocelyn Y. Harney, John Smarrelli with Susan Ames -- Advising administrator perspectives on advising / Kathy J. Davis, Dick Vallandingham and Philip D. Christman -- Perspectives on the future of academic advising / Thomas J. Grites, Virginia N. Gordon and Wesley R. Habley.