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Project Leader
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Mel Chastain
Director
Kansas Regents Educational Communications Center
Interim Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology
Chastain@ksu.edu
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Project Specifics
| Vision for Project |
That every learner with whom it becomes engaged
in an educational experience be afforded the same access to
and assistance with counseling and advising services, regardless
of circumstances created by place or condition. |
| Selected Student Service |
Academic Advising |
| Members of Vision Team |
- Dan Bernardo, Professor, Agricultural Economics Department
- Pat Bosco, Associate Vice President and Dean of Student
Affairs
- Rob Caffee, Associate Director of Information Systems,
DCE
- Mel Chastain, Director, Educational Communications Center
- Don Foster, University Registrar
- David Hillier, Data & Information Administrator, VPAST
Office
- Tom Shellhardt, Associate Vice-President, Administration
& Finance
- Paula Seematter, Office Manager, Educational Communications
Center
- John Streeter, Director, Office of Information Systems
- Beth Unger, Vice-Provost for Academic Services Technology
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| Path |
- Concentration on academic advising
- Selection of campus “team”
- Developing a decision-making vehicle
- Verifying process and technical validity
- Building and implementing the solution
- Sharing with colleagues
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| Scenarios |
This diagram
displays the process of KSU's online academic advising. Each
numbered block is a hyperlink to a table explaining that specific
scenario's goal, pre-conditions, actions or steps of the actor/student
and the unspecified system, and post-conditions.
For more information on scenarios, see Collaboration. |
| Collaborative Workspace |
Website
where the partners reviewed and commented on each other's scenarios |
Student Service
Profile |
Academic advising at
KSU |
| Lessons Learned |
- All academic advising is NOT the same
- Differences based on:
- Discipline
- Departmental/College Culture
- Advisor Type (full-time advisor or part-time)
- In the final analysis, however, there is (at least) one
universal truth:
- There is no real difference between academic advising
for the resident student or the distant learner
- That’s because, increasingly, there is no real difference
between the resident student and the distant learner
- Respect the differences, but concentrate on the similarities
- Attack the “data base fiefdoms”
- Use pictures to describe processes
- Select a small group of diverse but respected advisors
- Do the work, then let them correct it
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| Project Demo |
http://www.dce.ksu.edu/advise/advisedemo.ram |
| Glossary |
Advice, academic
Advice from an adviser related to any aspect of a student’s
academic life (for example, change of course of study)
Advice, course Advice
from an adviser related to any aspect of a student’s choice
of courses to take (for example, history or sociology as an
elective in an engineering program of study)
Advice, career Advice
from an adviser related to any aspect of a student’s ultimate
career (for example, immediate profession or graduate school)
Glossary continued |
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Updated
12/11/2002
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