Students in recovery need resources and opportunities on their campus to assist their academic success. When we create a place where students in recovery feel safe, these students feel welcomed in our offices and are more open to any needed academic assistance.

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at-risk students, Elizabeth Lang

Developing a one credit hour course that teaches students to take ownership of their professional/career goals and develop academic plans of study to meet those goals is a dream which can be made real by taking the practice of “advising as teaching and learning” directly into the classroom to establish a foundation for subsequent advising sessions after students have completed the course.

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career advising, Liberal Arts, Mark Vegter

As one of the pairs in the 2009-2011 cohort, we may have officially finished our commitment to the Emerging Leaders Program, but in many ways, we realize this is just the beginning...

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mentoring, Emerging Leaders Program, Cecilia Olivares, Sandy Waters

From June 2005 through December 2011, this publication was titled Academic Advising Today: Lighting Student Pathways. Articles included in these archived editions will be presented in a compiled version as well as broken down into individual articles to facilitate search capacity. News features from this period may be attained by contacting the Managing Editor.

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