Steps to Becoming an Advisor
New In-Person Advisor Workshop Spring, 2023
The scheduled workshop will be conducted in person.
New advisors must completd the following workshop/trainings:
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Best Practices for Effective Advising and Student Profile will be conducted in person
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Degree Works Training is provided by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and can be found here. For questions, please email degreeworks@louisiana.edu.
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Complete the Banner Request form (found here) and after attending the required trainings, return the form to the Academic Success Center via email -- success@louisiana.edu
Spring, 2023 semester workshop times
February 17th at 11:00 a.m. in Lee Hall room 208
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February 28th at 3:00 p.m. in FGM room 201
Registration to attend the workshop is required. The link to access the form to register and to respond to a few questions is available here.
The workshops are open to all advisors.
General Information -- Advising through ULink
Advising information is available on the University’s integrated student information system, ULink. You can email your students to announce the beginning of the advising period, send out advising reminders, and clarify expectations for new and continuing students.
By the beginning of October and March, all new students are assigned a departmental academic advisor. This is a good time to contact your advisees about at-risk alerts, tutoring resources, drop deadlines, the two-week advising period, and scheduling an advising appointment.
Advising Session
During an advising session, you should have access to the Student Profile (on ULink under the Faculty tab), Catalog, blue advising form or remote advising form, and any departmental information about your student’s major.
Advisors must remove a student’s advising hold for the student to be able to register classes. It is recommended that you remove the hold during the advising session. You may do this by clicking “Lift Advising Hold” on their Student Profile page.