Academic Advising and the First College Year

"As with most meaningful human endeavors, advising first-year college students is a challenging, complicated process. Happily, this book is replete with actionable insights about advising approaches that promise to enhance student success in the first college year and beyond."--George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education Emeritus, Indiana University "Academic Advising and the First College Year draws on NACADA's vast knowledge of and experience with academic advising that help readers apply that wisdom directly to their institution's first-year advising practices. This is a 'must read' for anyone who is serious about continuous quality improvement in academic advising for new college students."-- (09/27/2017) "A useful and thoughtful scholarly contribution about the importance and current state of academic advising for present day college students. This book is intended to supplement and build upon previous scholarship about college advising for first year students, but with particular attention to present day contexts, such as the crucial matter of advising an increasingly diverse student population. This text is a valuable and important resource for higher educational professionals and stakeholders who are seeking to be better informed about concepts, theories, and practice pertaining to college advising. This text is a valuable and important resource for advisors, but is also a helpful text for faculty, administrators, and any other stakeholders. College advisors will benefit from the conceptual, theoretical, and practical underpinnings that are presented in the book. Faculty might utilize this book, or selected chapters, in courses that center on student development, research on college students, diversity, equity, and inclusion, or critical issues in higher education. Perhaps a useful contribution of this book is its capacity to potentially promote classroom discourse about the changing landscape of present day college students and how to shape institutional practices to effectively promote college success for first year students. Finally, administrators and other stakeholders will gain a fundamental understanding about the crucial issues that presently exist regarding first year college advising and some of the ways that college advisors are confronting and tackling these issues." --Teachers College Record "At no time in the history of American higher education has student success been more important. Academic Advising and the First College Year provides readers with a clear and definitive understanding of the important role academic advisors play in first-year students' academic success and degree completion. Authors identify and investigate key issues, skills, and strategies for all who work with first-year students."--Charlie L. Nutt, Executive Director, NACADA