Project Leader
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Mel Chastain
Director
Kansas Regents Educational Communications Center
Interim Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology
Chastain@ksu.edu
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Project Specifics
| Vision for Project |
That every learner with whom it becomes
engaged in an educational experience be afforded the same
access to and assistance with counseling and advising
services, regardless of circumstances created by place
or condition. |
| Selected Student
Service |
Academic Advising |
| Members of Vision
Team |
- Dan Bernardo, Professor, Agricultural Economics
Department
- Pat Bosco, Associate Vice President and Dean of
Student Affairs
- Rob Caffee, Associate Director of Information Systems,
DCE
- Mel Chastain, Director, Educational Communications
Center
- Don Foster, University Registrar
- David Hillier, Data & Information Administrator,
VPAST Office
- Tom Shellhardt, Associate Vice-President, Administration
& Finance
- Paula Seematter, Office Manager, Educational Communications
Center
- John Streeter, Director, Office of Information Systems
- Beth Unger, Vice-Provost for Academic Services Technology
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| Path |
- Concentration on academic advising
- Selection of campus “team”
- Developing a decision-making vehicle
- Verifying process and technical validity
- Building and implementing the solution
- Sharing with colleagues
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| Scenarios |
This diagram displays the process of KSU's online academic advising.
Each numbered block is a hyperlink to a table explaining
that specific scenario's goal, pre-conditions, actions
or steps of the actor/student and the unspecified system,
and post-conditions.
For more information on scenarios, see Collaboration. |
| Collaborative Workspace |
Website where the partners reviewed and commented on each other's
scenarios |
Student Service
Profile |
Academic advising
at KSU |
| Lessons Learned |
- All academic advising is NOT the same
- Differences based on:
- Discipline
- Departmental/College Culture
- Advisor Type (full-time advisor or part-time)
- In the final analysis, however, there is (at least)
one universal truth:
- There is no real difference between academic
advising for the resident student or the distant
learner
- That’s because, increasingly, there is no real
difference between the resident student and the
distant learner
- Respect the differences, but concentrate on the
similarities
- Attack the “data base fiefdoms”
- Use pictures to describe processes
- Select a small group of diverse but respected advisors
- Do the work, then let them correct it
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| Project Demo |
http://www.dce.ksu.edu/advise/advisedemo.ram |
| Glossary |
Advice, academic Advice from an adviser related to any aspect of a student’s
academic life (for example, change of course of study)
Advice, course Advice
from an adviser related to any aspect of a student’s
choice of courses to take (for example, history or sociology
as an elective in an engineering program of study)
Advice, career Advice
from an adviser related to any aspect of a student’s
ultimate career (for example, immediate profession or
graduate school)
Glossary continued |
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