Joe Cuseo - “Academic advising can be understood best and more easily reconceptualized if the

process of academic advising and the scheduling of classes and registration are separated.

Class scheduling should no be confused with educational planning. Developmental

academic advising becomes a more realistic goal when separated from class scheduling

because advising can then go on all during the academic year, not just during the few

weeks prior to registration each new term. Advising programs, however, that emphasize

registration and record keeping, while neglecting attention to students’ educational and

personal experiences in the institution, are missing an excellent opportunity to influence

directly and immediately the quality of students’ education and are also highly

inefficient, since they are most likely employing highly educated (expensive) personnel

who are performing essentially clerical tasks”