Responsibility of the Student and Academic Advisors
Responsibility of the Student
Students have the primary responsibility for planning their individual programs and meeting graduation requirements. This involves (1) keeping up-to-date with university, school, and department curriculum requirements through materials available from your faculty advisors or departmental coordinator of advising; (2) keeping informed of academic deadlines and changes in academic policies as printed in the Schedule of Courses; and (3) consulting with your faculty advisor or departmental coordinator of advising at each preregistration period and at other times as needed.
Responsibility of the Coordinator of Advising
Each school or department has a coordinator of advising who is responsible for: (1) assigning, training, and supervising faculty advisors; (2) providing up-to-date, printed course and curriculum information for advisors and students; (3) reassigning to another advisor any student who so requests; (4) advising all CSU freshmen, all Minors in CSC, all Certificate of Computer Programming students, and all CSC majors who double major, and (5) assisting any student who wants to major in the coordinator's area of study but is ineligible at the time to transfer into it. Students in this category keep their advisor in the department in which they are enrolled, but consult additionally with the coordinator of advising for the department offering the curriculum in which they wish to enroll. Whenever appropriate, the coordinator will advise students that they should consider alternative curricula. The Assistant Director of Advising for CSC is Barbara Adams Ph.# 513-7888.
Responsibility of the Faculty Advisor
Although students have the primary responsibility for planning their programs, faculty advisors are expected to: (1) be available for conferences at appropriate times and places about which their advisees have been informed; (2) provide accurate information about academic regulations and procedures, course prerequisites, and graduation requirements; (3) assist students in planning academic programs suited to their interests and abilities and their career objectives; (4) give advisees their Personal ID Number (PIN) and Automated Degree Audit (ADA) each semester during the 3 weeks of Preregistration Advising; and, (5) refer their advisees for special testing or counseling as needed. The advisor or advisee may wish to consult a member of the Counseling Center staff, 200 Harris Hall, Ph.# 515-2423, in determining whether such a referral is needed.
Please feel free at any time to discuss your program or any related problems with your advisor, coordinator of advising, or your department head. Also, remember that you may change advisors through a request to the coordinator of advising.
