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Advising Update for August 2025
Important Advising Update
To support as many students as possible during this busy time, advisors will not be offering scheduled appointments between August 11–22. Instead, advising support will be available through email and drop-in sessions. Regular appointment scheduling will resume on August 25. Drop-in advising is ideal for addressing short, straightforward questions about things like registration issues and course selection guidance, while scheduling an appointment is best for things like multi-semester planning or declaring your major/minor.
Beginning August 11, advisors will be available:
- Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for email and drop-in advising, except during orientation on Monday, August 11 from 12:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, August 13 from 12:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
- Friday, August 15 and Friday, August 22 for email advising only
Please view the advisor portfolios below to see each advisor’s in-person and remote schedule for this drop-in advising period.
Advising Portfolios Overview
In February 2025, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (CLAS) academic advising portfolios changed to promote more significant caseload equity.
What is an advising caseload?
An advising caseload (or portfolio) is the number of students assigned to an academic advisor for academic advising.
Academic advisors help guide students through their academic journey providing a variety of services from picking classes and building out schedules to connecting students with faculty and other resources on campus.
It is recommended advisors have a caseload (or portfolio) of 300 students or fewer (EAB & NACADA, 2024). This allows advisors to advise from a proactive (or holistic) advising approach meeting students immediate needs while keeping their long-term goals in mind. Keeping caseloads smaller also ensures “advisors are not stretched too thin and students have the academic and personal support they need to succeed (EAB, 2024).”
What does this mean for you?
From 2023-2024, the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Data and Enrollment Management team conducted two in-depth studies that examined existing advising caseloads. In both studies, it was found that a rebalance was necessary to ensure advisors are in the optimal position to serve you, our students.
So how did the changes impact students? In most cases, advising caseloads stayed relatively the same as many of our advisors continued working with the same departments as they had been. In some cases, however, assigned advisors changed. Students were able to visit with their previous assigned advisor until February 9, 2025. After that date, students with new assigned advisors were updated in Navigate and encouraged to see their new advisor.
We encourage students to meet with their assigned advisor at least once a semester, regardless if their advisor changed or not.
New Advising Portfolios
New Advising Portfolios are listed by Division and Department.
- Division of Fine and Performing Arts: Departments of Art; Music; Theatre and Dance
- Division of Humanities and Social Sciences – Group A: Departments of Africana Studies; Communication Studies; History; Journalism and Media Production; Philosophy; Sociology and Anthropology
- Division of Humanities and Social Sciences – Group B: Departments of Chicana/o Studies; English; Political Science; World Languages; and the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy
- Division of Sciences – Group A: Departments of Biology; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Division of Sciences – Group B: Departments of Physics; Psychological Sciences
Click on the tab or scroll to the appropriate Division and Department. Under each area, you will find advisors listed alphabetically by last name and their contact information including phone and email as well as their personalized advising link (or PAL) – use this to schedule an appointment directly.
FAQ's
If you still have questions about the new advising portfolios, please contact your current advisor or email the CLAS Advising Team at [email protected].
The goal is to promote greater caseload equity across the College. When building these portfolios, we prioritized:
- Assigning multiple advisors per portfolio
- Preserving divisional/disciplinary affinities
- Maintaining established advisor-student relationships
- Advisor location for student convenience
- Enrollment trends for long-term portfolio stability
Multiple advisors ensure students are not underserved if an advisor is absent for an extended time. This helps both during the absence and when the advisor returns, reducing gaps in service.
While some disruption is inevitable, the new portfolios aim to balance maintaining relationships with adding new programs.
Proximity still matters in some cases in improving student service, so it was considered in grouping advisors within divisions.
Academic Advising Resources
Find more resources like scheduling, definition of terms, course recommendations, and progressions plans on the CLAS Academic Advising Resources site.
Visit the CLAS Academic Advising Resources HomepageCollege of Letters, Arts and Sciences Advising
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