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> Office of the Provost > Student Outcomes Assessment > Advising Plans
Computer Science
Advising Goals
- To assist students in the selection of classes that
will meet their educational goals, and ensure progress
towards a degree.
- To counsel students on professional and career
opportunities, and on graduate studies when appropriate.
- To help students with personal problems find the
resources that they need to deal with the problems.
When the Department Head talks to new students at
orientations, or to students who transfer into Computer
Science from other MSU departments, he emphasizes that
students should contact their advisors for help in any of
these three areas, at any time.
Advising Policy
All instructional faculty are assigned undergraduate
advisees, except for the Graduate Coordinator, who advises
all graduate students until they select a thesis/project
advisor, and the Department Head, who advises incoming
students and also takes over as advisor if the student's
designated advisor is not available.
For new students entering MSU who declare Computer Science
as a major, the departmental secretary randomly assigns
advisors to them once the official list of majors is
published after the completion of registration.
When students transfer into Computer Science from another
MSU department, the secretary lets them select an advisor
if they already know a faculty member. If they do not
make a selection, an advisor will be assigned by the
secretary.
At any time a student can go to the secretary and request
a change of advisor. These changes are always made
immediately.
Departmental policy requires students to talk to their
advisors before registering, but it is often difficult to
enforce this policy.
We recommend that students talk to their advisor, or to
the Department Head, whenever they need counseling, as
described in our advising goals, above.
To increase access to advisors, students are encouraged to
go to the Department Head or to other faculty if their
designated advisor is not available.
To improve access to their advisors, students are
encouraged to use e-mail for simple questions, which is
used extensively by many students for this purpose.
Recent Changes and Future Plans
- To Improve Quality of Advising
- Online advising evaluation form.
msu.cs.advising newsgroup.
Comprehensive information on the departmental Web
page.
- To Improve Accessibility of Advisors
- We are using the new newsgroup to make sure that students
understand that they can approach other faculty if their
assigned advisor is not available.
We are also using the newsgroup to encourage students to
use e-mail at any time of day to get questions to their
advisor.
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