Enhancing Student Success: A Global Perspective

Purpose of the event:

This conference aims to provide an opportunity to explore the role of academic advising in relation to improving student success. More specifically it will:

• Present best practices in many aspects of student guidance and support
• Present new research and theoretical frameworks, and reflect on the current challenges
• Host keynote presentations by experts from the U.S. and the Netherlands
• Consider the role of data, evaluation and research in demonstrating the effectiveness of academic advising and other forms of student support
• Seek to make explicit the links between these types of intervention and improving student success
• Examine ways of embedding good practice throughout disciplines, faculties and institutions
• Include peer reviewed papers about academic advising
• Provide opportunities for networking with international colleagues
• Offer tools and strategies for professional development in various fields of advising, tutoring, and guidance
• Encourage collaborative practitioner reflection and research