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> Office of the Provost > Student Outcomes Assessment > Advising Plans
Art
Advising Goals
To provide academic advising to the students in the School
of Art
To provide career counseling to the students in the School
of Art
To provide a mentoring environment to the students in the
School of Art.
Advising Policy
Within the School of Art academic advising is a shared
responsibility of all tenure track faculty. Whenever
possible students are assigned an advisor with the intent
of matching a student's major to faculty with that expertise.
(Example: a studio arts major in painting is assigned a
painting faculty advisor.) Students meet with academic
advisors during the advising week of preregistration and
throughout the school year by appointment. Faculty advisors
list office hours (two per week, minimum) which allows students
to meet with them in their office or find the faculty in
their classroom/studio. In addition, faculty advisors
are asked to be available during the two days of registration
before classes begin each semester. The Director is also
available for advising any students in the School of Art and
is available during all registration periods and during the
three summer pre-registration times. In addition, the
Director is the primary advisor for all four guarantee students.
For consistent bookkeeping, Jeanne Wagner, Secretary in the
School of Art, is responsible for updating each student's
academic progress on the School of Art option sheets and
preparing and submitting graduation applications to the Registrar.
Jeanne also coordinates all other curriculum matters; drop/adds
independent study contracts, etc. pertaining to the student's
academic progress.
New faculty advisors meet first with the Director to go over
advising responsibility and then meet with the School of Art
secretary for procedure information. In addition, the College
of Arts and Architecture advising guide is given to new advisors
for general information concerning university policies. They
also attend the "University Workshop for New Faculty."
Recent Changes and Future Plans
- To Improve Quality of Advising
- Since Fall 1995, the only change we have made to improve
quality is to establish a sign-off curriculum sheet for our
students enrolled in the four year guarantee program.
- To Improve Accessibility of Advisors
- This Fall the faculty are now required to increase their
office hours in order to be more accessible to students.
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