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Advising Expectations

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What to Expect from Your Advisor?

  • Advise and register undeclared students in courses during their first semester
  • Inform students of the requirements and prerequisites for each major 
  • Guide students academically toward their preferred major
  • Ensure that each freshman, regardless of his or her background, makes the best possible use of the University’s academic resources
  • Empower students to make their own decisions by exploring their options
  • Assist students to maximize educational opportunities by making the correct choices
  • Help freshman students select courses according to their interests, goals and personal abilities
  • Provide students with the help they need to be off probation
  • Introduce students to liberal arts education

 

What is not Expected from your Advisor?

  • Have an opinion on professors
  • Claim that a course is easy. An easy course is something personal and relative
  • Drop/add courses except during drop/add week
  • Choose a specific course from a core curriculum or major category
  • Make choices on a student’s behalf

 

What is Expected of Students?

  • Ensure that their course selections align with AUC requirements and regulations, according to the AUC catalog of their year of admission
  • Take responsibility for their course selections

 

The Advising Process

After receiving an acceptance letter from the enrollment and admissions team and completing all payment procedures, students are required to set an appointment for advising.

Advisors guide students through the most important policies and procedures that they should know, especially during the first year of their undergraduate career. Advisors also walk students through the requirements of each major. Together, students and their advisors plan schedules and register for courses, ensuring that the students fulfill both their academic and personal requirements.

Advisors help undecided students narrow down the choice of majors by eliminating undesired or least preferred options. Students are expected to meet with advisors at least once every semester for advising and course planning.

During advising sessions, advisors will go through a tentative schedule for the following semester before registration and will help students get a clear understanding of where they stand academically and guide them through the declaration track. They will also listen to students’ concerns, guide them to other services/offices on campus if required. For example, sometimes students are referred to the “Counseling Center”, “Career Center”, “Writing Center” and others.

 

Work Cycle

  • The Academic Advising Center conducts advising and registration sessions for newly admitted students. Advising is done from mid-July to end of August for students admitted in the fall semester and in January for students admitted in the spring semester.
  • Once a student is accepted into AUC and pays his/her tuition, they start their “Newcomer’s Checklist”, leading to them booking an advising appointment.
  • Purpose: The main purpose of academic advising ideally is to prepare each student before the advising/registration session and to enable them to choose courses for their first semester.
  • Other important purposes include:
    • Introducing students to academic rules and regulations
    • Explaining the meaning and purpose of a liberal arts education (this includes explaining the core curriculum ladder and course requirements),
    • Stressing the importance of choosing a major that suits the student’s interests and skills.
    • Remind students of important dates, deadlines procedures during the semester.