Academic Advising and the Student Transition to College

• Main Author: Joe Cuseo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2011-12-01
• Series: Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention
• Subjects: first-year; advising; withdraw; attrition; undecided majors; chickering; seven vectors; student development; perry; baxter magolda; encourage; educate
• Online Access: https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/jcotr/article/view/2781

The first year of college continues to be a critical period for student persistence, learning, and development. College students are under increasing pressure to make commitments to major and career plans at a very early stage in their undergraduate experience, often without the programmatic support to do so. First-year experience professionals, who are knowledgeable about student development theory and professionally committed to facilitating the transition of students to collee, are well position to fill the void in support for early academic and career decision-making. Provision of proactive and personalized support to meet the current demands for early educational and vocational decision-makingmay be pivotal for ensuring the success of today's first-year students in general, and today's growing number of first-generation students in particular.