Faculty Advising Examined: Enhancing the Potential of College Faculty as Advisors

Faculty advising is an integral component of the higher education system, yet it goes largely unexamined. This book explores faculty advising as a contributor to student college success and provides guidance on how to organize, deliver, and improve overall faculty advising on campus. It addresses such faculty advising issues as accountability, training, delivery, evaluation, recognition, and reward.

This book is written for individuals responsible for the support, direction, and coordination of faculty advising programs at the campus, college, or department level, along with deans and vice presidents of academic and student affairs. It features chapters on

• Advising as teaching
• Current status of faculty advising and where it is headed
• The importance of faculty advising and practical means to achieving a strong program
• Expectations and training of faculty advisors
• The role of evaluation and reward in faculty advising
• Seven organizational models and delivery systems for faculty advising
• Managing and leading faculty advising to promote success
• Resources to improve faculty advising on campus
• Examples of outstanding faculty advising programs
• Philosophical and cultural foundations for faculty advising
• Practical legal concepts for faculty advising
• Faculty advising and technology

The wealth of information contained within these pages makes this an invaluable resource for all those involved in the advising process.

Gary L. Kramer is associate dean of student academic and advisement services and professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education at Brigham Young University. A former dean of students at Trident technical College in Charleston, South Carolina, he received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University. He has published 70 refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, monographs, grant proposals, ERIC and institutional reports, as well as more than 50 scholarly papers in ten different refereed journals. he is also the editor of four monographs, the author of six monograph chapters, and chapters in books published by Jossey7-Bass and the Society for College and University Planning(SCUP). He has delivered more than 100 professional papers, including Keynote addresses for 11 different professional organizations, and edited a book on student academic services for Jossey-Bass. In addition to having served as the National Academic Advising Association's (NACADA) president, he has received the association's awards for researcher of the year, distinguished service, and excellence in the field.