NCC: Advising Center files

Collection

Identifier: NCCA-C008

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The 4 year plan was an advanced outlook on goals, outlines, and expectations of the Academic Advising Center. The advising manual details the responsibilities of individual advisors and outlines required courses and available opportunities. The planning sheets are a comprehensive list of majors and minors, accompanied by course requirements and responsibilities. The publicity folder contains information from 1970 up to 2009 for publicity of the Academic Advising Center. The training folder contains a list of overheads and papers comprehensively describing ways to train advisors and staff on what responsibilities and information advisors should convey to individual students.

Dates

1970 - 2009
Majority of material found within 1989 - 2009

Biographical / Historical

The Academic Advising Center was created on October 8, 1970. Concerns that a disconnect had developed between faculty advisors and students led to the decision to start an Advising Center. Issues included but were not limited to shallowness of contact between student and advisor, misinformation on the part of advisors, overloading of advisors, and the indifference of advisors to special interests of students. The role of the Advising Center was to focus on the goals and requirements set by the Registrar at North Central College, leaving the student and faculty advisor meetings to focus on the individual goals of the student. The Academic Advising Center was closed in the Fall of 2009. Currently, the Center for Student Success does academic advising for students, along with providing other services.