The Advising Success Network Newsletter | January 2023
We are excited to share the work of our first cohort of Advising Success Network Student Fellows. Over the last few months, we had the opportunity to work with a team of undergraduate and graduate students attending different institutions as part of the very first cohort of ASN Student Fellows. Ten students were selected from a national pool of 182 applicants to participate in project-based, experiential learning projects, and to collaborate with each other and ASN partners from June through December of 2022. The students also received a $5,000 stipend or scholarship.
As part of the student fellows’ experiences, they worked on small teams to reflect on racial equity and student leadership in advising redesign. Today, we’re sharing some of the student reflections. Check out their final reports and share with us what you think.
What We're Reading
The Future of Advising
As we all know, student success is critical to keeping students enrolled, and good advising is widely seen as central to student success.
Advisors are some of the first professionals students meet on campus. But it doesn't always go well. Academic advising is one of the most misunderstood and under-supported divisions on campus, plagued by low pay, large caseloads, and high turnover.
Good advising systems can increase professionalism and pride in this underappreciated field, help close equity gaps, and ensure students effectively navigate their path to a degree. How can university leaders set advising up for success? The Chronicle of Higher Education just released this report which is now available in their store. ASN team members and partners contributed to much of the content!
In 2020-2021, the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition engaged with HBCUs for a Professional Learning Community (PLC). In Fall 2021, the Center hosted a virtual symposium with this PLC, and we are excited to share the video series of content collected from these convenings.
From ASN partner The National Resource Center on the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, this three-part resource collection foregrounds best advising practices rooted in a culturally relevant framework that affirms HBCU students and their unique perspective, lived experience and need for community connections. The purpose of this three-part collection is to promote the complementary, yet distinct ways that select HBCUs are assessing, framing, and collaborating to implement best practices with the goal of maximizing advising effectiveness for students.
Our mission is to help institutions build a culture of student success, with a focus on Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander students, as well as students from low-income backgrounds, by identifying, building, and scaling equitable and holistic advising solutions that support all facets of the student experience.
Vision
Our vision is a higher education landscape that has eliminated race and income as predictors of student success through a reformed approach to advising, in which all students are supported through a seamless, personalized postsecondary experience that creates better personal, academic, and professional outcomes.
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