• Resource Web links for theories and approaches to academic advising
• Overviews of theories and approaches
  • Are There Disciplinary Voices in Academic Advising?
  • From Theory to Practice: The Application of Theories of Development to Academic Advising Philosophy and Practice
  • An Advisor's Half Dozen: Principles for Incorporating Learning Theory into our Advising Practices
  • Maslow, Meaning and Me: A Theorist’s Guide to Advising Administration
  • Reflection in Advising
  • Thought Leaders Wanted: What Each of Us Must Do to Advance the Field of Academic Advising
• Read More About It! Bibliography dealing with this issue

• Developmental Advising includes links to developmental vs. prescriptive advising
• Appreciative Advising
• Intrusive Advising
• Academic Coaching
• Advising as Learning via AAC&U
• Learning Centered Academic Advising
• Lifespan development and lifelong learning
• Motivational Interviewing in Academic Advising
• Self-Authorship / Transformative Theory applied to Academic Advising
• Strengths Based Advising
  • Strengths Based Advising via the NACADA Journal
  • Using Strengths-Based Advising to Promote Persistence and Restructure “One Size Fits All” Advising Models

• Theory, philosophy and advising approach articles
  • Learning Theory and advising
  • Advising as Teaching
  • Advising Strategies: What Academic Advisers Can Learn from Sun Tzu
  • An Alternative to the Developmental Theory of Advising
  • Are Academic Advisors Knowledge Workers?
  • Developmental Advising: A Practical View
  • Drew Appleby's The Teaching-Advising Connection via The Mentor
  • Incorporating Appreciative Inquiry into Academic Advising
  • The Meaning of "Student-Centered" Advising: Challenges to the Advising Learning Community
  • Expanding the Prescriptive-Developmental Advising Continuum: Using Social Constructivism as an Advising Approach for Students from High Relational Groups
  • The Meaning of Student Centered Advising
  • Narrative Theory and Academic Advising
  • Nurtured Advising via Academic Advising Today
  • Supporting Social Justice Through Advising via Academic Advising Today
  • What would a unified theory of academic advising require?
• Theories applicable to academic advising
  • William Perry's Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development
  • Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Development via Wikipedia
  • Theories based upon Erickson's Eight Stages
  • James Marcia's Four Identity States
  • Chickering and Reisser's Seven Vectors
  • Principles of Adult Learning and Resources for advising Adult Learners
  • Levinson's Four eras of the life cycle
  • Learning Styles
  • Transformative Theory in academic advising
• College and university advising philosophies and mission statements

  • Boise State University
  • Messiah College
  • Monmouth College
  • Pierce College
  • Slippery Rock University
  • South Puget Sound Community College
  • Union University
  • University of Minnesota Duluth
  • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

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