On-line Access to Advisee Information - Log into Pioneer Web using your network username and password. Click on the SERVICES tab to access Advising tools. These tools include (1) demographic information about your advisees, (2) advisee grades, and (3) advisee academic history. Use this information to verify enrollment in courses, check advisee grades and their progress toward a major or graduation. Reference this information during pre-registration and at other critical times.

Advisers' Handbook (PDF) - a comprehensive resource guide for faculty advisers covering the responsibilties of advisers, information available to advisers about their advisees and how to find it and interpret it, off campus study and career development information, answers to common advising issues, extensive information from deparments to aid in course planning, and much more! Each faculty member is given a hard copy of this resource in the fall semester. If you did not receive a copy or you want an additional copy, please contact the Academic Advising Office x3702.

Student Handbook section on Academic Policies - www.grinnell.edu/offices/studentaffairs/shb/section3/

Office of the Registrar - www.grinnell.edu/offices/registrar/

"Advising in an Open Curriculum" - www.grinnell.edu/offices/dean/tutorial/advising/

"Elements of a Liberal Education" - www.grinnell.edu/academic/catalog/education/elem/

"Ways of Learning" - www.grinnell.edu/academic/catalog/education/ways/

Information for Faculty Regarding the Tutorial - from the Dean's Office Web Page

Advising Workshops - Periodically the Academic Advising Office co-sponsors workshops with the Dean of the Faculty's Office on advising best practices. The session covers advising in an individually-mentored curriculum, course planning, advising resources, reading student files, interpreting test scores, review of academic policies which affect advising, common advising problems. Contact Academic Advising for workshop dates.

Setting Clear Expectations with Advisees for Pre-Registration - this example of a pro-active advising strategy will help you have a more efficient pre-registration. These emails send a clear message about the adviser's role, the advisee's role, and use of advising time together.

Setting Clear Expectations with New Advisees: First Sunday Tutorial Meeting - this is an example of a pro-active advising strategy to have a more efficient pre-registration with your new tutees. This letter sends a clear message about the adviser's role, the advisee's role, and planning a liberal education.

First-Year Student Self Evaluation Form - this useful tool, adapted from a similar resource at Lawrence University, allows for a structured conversation with your student in his/her first semester at Grinnell. Often advisers seek to "check in" with their Tutees, but aren't sure what questions to ask or how to get the conversation going. This document requires the student to reflect on their first few weeks at Grinnell, and provides you (as the adviser) with a concrete way to direct the student in a productive manner. Further, this can be used to facilitate a conversation about liberal education -- what it is and how the student is going about crafting a liberal education for him/herself. Please contact the Academic Advising Office x3702, for other hints on how to use this resource.

Blank AA Difficulty Report.doc Use this form to notify us of students experiencing difficulty in your classroom. The completed form can be emailed to Denise Bennett at: bennettd@grinnell.edu

Responding to a Request for a Letter of Recommendation - this is a sample response to a student who is requesting a letter of recommendation. More resources about writing letters of recommendation can be found at http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/cdo/facultyandstaff/includes/Lettersofrecommendation.pdf.

Helping Seniors With the Transition Out of Grinnell - this is an example of a pro-active advising strategy. This includes a sample email to senior students to encourage them to be active and strategic in planning their life beyond Grinnell.

Working with Students with Disabilities

Student Tutoring - how the tutoring program works at Grinnell.

Referrals to Counseling and Mental Health - clear advice on how to make a strategic referral to counseling and a list of mental health services for Grinnell students

Serving as an 'Advisor' During a CAS Honesty Hearing - if your advisee or another student finds him/herself being summoned to a hearing of the Committee on Academic Standing for possible violation of our Academic Honesty policy, this document offers strategies for advising that student.

Advising as Teaching: Creating an Advising Syllabus - Academic advising can be viewed as part of the teaching and learning process and articulated as such to your students. An advising syllabus reinforces this message to your student: that advising time is an extension of your teaching role and you have specific learning goals for them, and they have specific responsibilities in the process. Examples of advising syllabi will be developed in the next few months and included here -- stay tuned!