Advising at AUI

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Advising at AUI

• Follow up discussion
• Tuesday November 29, 2005

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Problems Proposals

• Advising
• Pre-registration

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Advising Problems encountered

• Students do not seek advice prior to
  pre-registration
• Advising is time consuming and in many cases of
  no value classes are full or need uncompleted
  pre-requisites
• Advisors and students only focus on immediate
  results pre-registration

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Advising Student problems

• Students not allowed to change major/school
  during advising process

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Advising Proposals

• Set up an Academic Advising Unit to do Student
  Course Advising, Testing, Quality Assurance, and
  Career Development
• Make advising an obligatory part of course
  selection no advising ? no registration
• Put all necessary info on-line so that
  self-reliant students can see judge choices
• Require advising earlier in semester

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Advising Additional Proposals

• Select students for peer advising
• Produce an Advising Handbook for students
  faculty
• Pre-set course path (no choices) for the first 2
  years of all students program add flexibility
  incrementally
• Students can choose sections build their
  schedules as a time management exercise

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Pre-registration Problems encountered

• Course pre-requisites not recognised if taken
  this semester
• Teachers locked out of Poise
• Classes recorded as closed when seats still
  remain
• Time slot restrictions seniors first policy
• Grad students registered as undergrad

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Pre-registration Student problems

• Students leave classes Thursday Friday to
  pre-register
• Students who dont know what to do have no way of
  finding out

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Pre-Registration Proposals

• Replace Pre-registration week with 2-3 days of
  registration before semester starts
• On-line useability enhanced by more and more
  consistent information immediate display of
  possible courses for any given student upon entry
  of student ID

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Pre-registration Additional Proposals

• Simplify pre-requisite requirements to make it
  easier for programmers
• Delete special permission (not programmable)
• To make an off-the-shelf system compatible will
  require university-wide review of course
  sequences choices

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System Additional Proposals

• Separate course selection from timetabling
• Produce a faculty student handbook for
  pre-registration procedures

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Enrolment Proposals

• Add-Drop week allow student requests only if a
  time clash threatens their schedule
• Do not require students to declare a major until
  their fourth semester