Advising Leadership Committees

Ways to provide feedback, get involved, and communicate the needs of advising staff's units and departments.

University Academic Advising provides central coordination for the Advising Network through the Provost Office to enhance the campus-wide student experience with academic advising in collaboration with colleges and departments who provide the oversight and delivery of advising services. This framework benefits from university-wide institutional structures synergistically collaborating with departmental and disciplinary approaches to advance academic advising on this campus. 

University-wide coordination provides a foundation for enhancing equitable student advising experiences, determining strategic outreach, and utilizing data to increase the positive impact of advising services. University-wide advising training, professional development, advisee caseload management technology, and communication supports ASC/Advisors to be successful in their work.  

College and departments implement advising services integrating university strategies and goals with tailored approaches specific to department structures.  Colleges and departments supervise ASC/Advisors and provide training and support specific to their area.  The advising network is connected within departments and colleges, and as a university-wide network.    

Inclusive University-Wide Approach through Committees

Advising / College Department Coordinators

Purpose:

Strategize and collaborate with staff that coordinate advising in their college/department to enhance university-wide coordination of advising focusing on supporting student success outcomes.

  • Enhance university-wide academic advising approaches
  • Assess Academic Advising
  • Provide university-wide advising support
  • Share what is happening in college advising efforts, and strategically  connect college advising meetings and university-wide advising meetings.

Frequency :

Monthly Meetings Throughout the Year

Committee Chair

Gaye Digregorio
Executive Director for University Academic Advising

 

 

Navigate Management Team


Purpose:

Executive Leadership Team
Manages questions about student success initiative, (overall) processes, policies, big picture and strategic planning related to Navigate platform. Includes: Navigate Strategic Leader, Advising Training and Development Unit Staff, Executive Director for University Academic Advising, representatives from Student Success and Institutional Research. The Navigate Executive Leadership Team is is chaired by Sean Wernert-Eighmy. 

Governance Group
We are creating a new sub group of the Navigate Executive Leadership Team for Fall Semester 2023 called the “Navigate Governance Group.” It will be charged with assisting in making decisions related to configurations within the platform. This group will consist of 5-7 Navigate users from the CSU community who can look at how the platform operates at an institutional/systems level. This group will be Chaired by Sean Wernert-Eighmy and will be the mechanism through which configuration requests (i.e. additional services, locations, care units etc.) will be considered.

Navigate User Group (formerly Navigate Ambassadors)
Sub group of Navigate Executive Leadership Team that is composed of Academic Success Coordinators and advisors. For users of the platform to come together to identify and problem-solve issues and develop best practices for use by student-facing staff. Recommendations for configuration changes can be proposed by this group and submitted to the Governance group for review. Pilot program for the 2023-2024 academic year. Chaired by John Heisel. 

Academic Success Coordinator / Advisor Input Group

Purpose:

Given prior ASC feedback, ASC/Advisors want to feel more valued and do not feel their input is being heard. Forming this group created and led by ASC/Advisors is one way to provide an ongoing and intentional ASC/Advisor input/feedback loop. ASC/Advisors have a lot of expertise in understanding student experiences and barriers that can help to enhance student success at CSU. This group provide the following

  • Consult on university-wide initiatives,
  • Identify challenges 
  • Make proposals to address them, and brainstorm new ideas and initiatives.

Frequency:

Monthly Meetings Throughout the Year

Committee Chair

Natalie Cartwright
Academic Success Coordinator|College of Business

University Committee on Academic Advising

Purpose:

Collaborate with advising representatives from Colleges/Departments, the Registrar’s Office and University Academic Advising and Outreach to enhance academic advising focusing on advising approaches and services.

  • Provide feedback to campus initiatives that impact advising approaches or services that often include collecting feedback from college/dept. advisors

  • Propose initiatives to improve academic advising on campus

  • Learn about advising updates, student outcomes, and updates from campus stakeholders   

  • Share advising best practices and experiences across campus

Frequency:

Monthly Meetings Throughout the Year

Committee Chair

Sean Wernert-Eighmy
Director of Academic Advising
University Academic Advising and Advocacy