Advisor Assignment Process |
Step 1 Admissions.A student is admitted to MSUM and specifies a major or undeclared. |
| Step 2 The Major Department. Students entering a major are assigned an advisor by their department. Methods used to assign advisees to advisors vary by department. Some use a freshmen feeder model that assigns all new students to one or two advisors for group advising before the students are reassigned to other advisors after official admittance to the major. Some departments spread the advisees evenly amongst the faculty. Other departments assign advisees to faculty based on the advisee’s area of specialty within the major. Transfer students are often assigned to the department chair or to a faculty member who has experience handling transfer credits and equivalencies. |
The Academic Resource Office. Undeclared students are assigned to volunteer faculty advisors using the following criteria. If a student seems to be taking a set of classes in a particular area, technology for example, they will be assigned to an undeclared advisor in that area or major. If at all possible a student will be assigned to a faculty advisor who is teaching one of their classes. If a student does not have an available faculty advisor as an instructor then they will be assigned to the director of the Academic Resource Office or another volunteer advisor. |
| Step 3 Advisor changes. Students wishing to change their major and/or advisor need to fill out the gold "Major/Advisor Change" form. The form requires students to visit their new major department to be assigned a new advisor. Students switching to undeclared can bring the form to the Academic Resource Office (ARO) in 151 Flora Frick. Once complete, the form is returned to the ARO so the new major and advisor can be added to the student’s record. |
