Welcome to the Academic Advising Website

This website has been designed by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies to facilitate one of the most important elements of the college experience: academic advising. An undergraduate degree is more than just 120 credit hours, 38-40 courses, distributed among core, major, elective, and perhaps minor, requirements; it is an intellectual journey, and no two are alike. For this reason, careful, informed, imaginative, personal collaboration between advisors and advisees is vital.

We have tried to gather resources faculty and students need: catalogs, information on majors, core requirements, forms, policies, useful links, frequently asked questions. Good advising requires that good information be easily accessible, because a good advising session goes beyond “checking things off” to the more important business of creative collaboration, together envisioning a plan for the next semester, the next year, and beyond.

I urge students and faculty alike to consider not what is expedient but what excites, asking together, “How can we get the most out of these fleeting eight semesters?” Consider all the options. Study abroad? An internship for credit? An independent study? A double major, or a special major or minor? If you can envision it, there is usually a way to make it happen.

One proviso: this site is not a replacement for the catalog, which is still the primary resource for learning about courses, majors, minors, special programs or possibilities. If you do not have a catalog in your possession, they are available at the registrar’s office.

Finally, this site is a work in progress, and we invite your help in building it. Have a suggestion? Send it to Dr. Eloise Knowlton, Dean of Undergraduate Studies, at eknowlton@assumption.edu.

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