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”