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BRIAN MINK
Issue date: 10/10/07 Section: News
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"The recommendations of this task force will require some transformations," he said. "Good advising and mentoring are crucial to retention and progression in graduation rates."
Zaccari said advising approaches around the state ranged from those that were "organized, systemic and prescriptive" to those that students refer to critically as the "five-minute advising model."
The task force met with student government associations and other student representatives at each of the state's colleges and universities, Zaccari said.
He said institutions use three different advising models.
The decentralized model uses advisers within academic departments.
The centralized model offers advisers who are trained specifically as cross-disciplinary advisers. A third model combines the decentralized and centralized models based on how many credits a student has earned.
Zaccari said the task force, which has worked on its recommendations for 10 months, did not recommend a single model for all of the state's institutions to follow. It determined that all colleges and universities must reexamine their present advising model and determine how to improve it.
"I think it's really going to have a positive impact on all of our campuses," he said.
Zaccari said advising approaches around the state ranged from those that were "organized, systemic and prescriptive" to those that students refer to critically as the "five-minute advising model."
The task force met with student government associations and other student representatives at each of the state's colleges and universities, Zaccari said.
He said institutions use three different advising models.
The decentralized model uses advisers within academic departments.
The centralized model offers advisers who are trained specifically as cross-disciplinary advisers. A third model combines the decentralized and centralized models based on how many credits a student has earned.
Zaccari said the task force, which has worked on its recommendations for 10 months, did not recommend a single model for all of the state's institutions to follow. It determined that all colleges and universities must reexamine their present advising model and determine how to improve it.
"I think it's really going to have a positive impact on all of our campuses," he said.
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