MEMORANDUM

TO: Faculty Senators

FROM: Faculty Senate Office

DATE: March 20, 1984

The following document is provided as an attachment for Senate Agenda Item VD:

Report of the General College Committee.

The recommendation which the General College is submitting to the Faculty
Senate is based upon several well-grounded assumptions: effective advising
has many benefits for students. That which benefits students in terms of
their academic progress and their sense of meaningful participation in the
University is ultimately beneficial to the University, the faculty, and
administrators. That is, student adjustment and progress benefits the
University in better classes, attitudes, student retention, and enrollment.
Information from students which feeds back their perceptions of advising to
advisers provides one resource for providing the best possible advising
program.

The committee recommends the following four-point program for a voluntary
program for the evaluation of advising:

1. A General College Adviser/Advisee Evaluation Survey will be available for
use by General College Advisers each spring semester during pre-
registration. (The form will also be available for non-General College
Advisers if requested.)

Each department has the option to use this evaluation-information resource
for its General College Advisers. Each department which opts to use the
survey should also define its policy both for access to the information and

for the use which will be made of it.

3. If a department chooses not to participate, individual General Cokiege
Advisers within that department may opt to use it.

t/a) saviser who are evaluated will receive the results of that evaluation.

 
The summary will be composed of the following items and the listed response 4

options will be used for each item:

Response Options:

Outstanding Very Good Fair Poor No Opinion
Items:

1. My adviser's knowledge of degree requirements and academic
regulations is

My adviser's knowledge of where to seek information that
he/she does not have is

My adviser's availability through regular office hours or
appointment is

My adviser's attitude toward helping me is

My own preparation/preparedness for meetings with my
adviser has been

My overall rating of my adviser is