Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College

To serve increasingly complex higher education institutions and their diverse student cohorts, academic advisors must understand multiple advising approaches and adroitly adapt them to their own student populations. Academic Advising Approaches outlines a wide variety of proven advising practices and strategies that help students master the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career goals. Linking theory with practice, contributors to Academic Advising Approaches provide an accessible updated reference useful to all who serve in an advising role. Based upon accepted theories within the social sciences and humanities, the approaches covered include those incorporating developmental, learning-centered, appreciative, proactive, strengths-based, Socratic, and hermeneutic advising as well as those featuring advising as teaching, motivational interviewing, self-authorship, and advising as coaching. All the contributors advocate relationship building as a means to encourage students to take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress. Praise for Academic Advising Approaches "As higher education increasingly focuses on student success, the impact exerted by academic advising on graduation is increasingly recognized and valued. This text firmly places academic advising in the teaching and learning paradigm as it features theoretical approaches and strategies for use as academic advising gains an integral role on campus." — Charlie Nutt , Executive Director, NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising "Good advising is a critical part of all students' college experiences. Specific suggestions make this book a wonderfully valuable addition to the advising literature and should appeal to advisors as well as advisees and their families." — Richard J. Light , Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning, Harvard University "Finally a single resource incorporates a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives to undergird and inspire targeted approaches by academic advisors. The ideas and practical applications should be incorporated into academic advisors' contacts with students and in the syllabus of every advisor training program." — Virginia N. Gordon , Associate Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University

Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii The Editors xix The Authors xxiii PART ONE Foundations of Academic Advising Practice 1 Advising Strategies to Support Student Learning Success: Linking Theory and Philosophy With Intentional Practice 3 Ezekiel Kimball and Susan M. Campbell 2 Advising as Teaching and the Advisor as Teacher in Theory and in Practice 17 Jayne K. Drake (Advising–as–teaching student scenario authored by Marsha A. Miller) 3 Learning–Centered Advising 33 Maura M. Reynolds 4 Developmental Academic Advising 45 Thomas J. Grites Voices From the Field: So I’ve Been Thinking . . .O’Banion in Reverse 61 Patrick Cate PART TWO A New Light: Viewing the Practice of Academic Advising From Different Perspectives 5 Motivational Interviewing: Helping Advisors Initiate Change in Student Behaviors 67 Judy Hughey and Robert Pettay 6 Appreciative Advising 83 Jennifer L. Bloom, Bryant L. Hutson, and Ye He Voices From the Field: Applying Appreciative Advising 101 Joseph Murray 7 Strengths–Based Advising 105 Laurie A. Schreiner 8 Academic Advising Informed by Self–authorship Theory 121 Janet K. Schulenberg 9 Proactive Advising 137 Jennifer Varney Voices From the Field: Increasing First–Year Student Engagement Through Mid–year Self–reflections 155 Holly E. Martin 10 Advising as Coaching 159 Jeffrey McClellan PART THREE A New Lens: Applying Theories From Other Disciplines to the Practice of Academic Advising 11 The Application of Constructivism and Systems Theory to Academic Advising 179 Terry Musser and Frank Yoder 12 Socratic Advising 197 Janet M. Spence and Nora A. Scobie 13 Understanding and Interpretation: A Hermeneutic Approach to Advising 223 Sarah Champlin–Scharff and Peter L. Hagen PART FOUR A New Path: Envisioning the Future of Academic Advising 14 Envisioning the Future 243 Marc Lowenstein Name Index 259 Subject Index 265

Jayne K. Drake , Temple University, is past President of NACADA. Peggy Jordan , Oklahoma City Community College, is past Chair of NACADA's Publications Advisory Board and Two-Year Colleges Commission. Marsha A. Miller is NACADA's Assistant Director for Resources and Services.