Advising by E-Mail: Some Advisors' Perceptions

Abstract

E-mail has become an integral part of how advisors and students communicate. Advisors at multiple colleges and universities were surveyed to determine how advising by E-mail has affected their daily routines and how it has changed the way they interact with students. Although most advisors professed a positive attitude about advising students and performing administrative duties by E-mail, several concerns emerged regarding how and when E-mail is used.

The 3-I Process: A Career-Advising Framework

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“…Her later work, Students Needing Academic Alternative Advising: A National Survey (Gordon & Polson, 1985), Changes in Social and Academic Integration in Freshmen of High and Average Ability: Implications for Retention (Kennedy, Gordon, & Gordon, 1995), and Advising by E-Mail: Some Advisors' Perceptions (Steele & Gordon, 2001), showcased Gordon's ability to incorporate survey design into her scholarship. Her article with Steele and Kennedy (1993) highlights her versatile knowledge of quantitative research by comparing students who entered the Academic Alternatives Program to a cohort group that matched in terms of gender, curriculum academic program, grade-point average, credit hours, and number of quarters enrolled.…”

Cumulative Subject Index to Volumes 16–30 of the NACADA Journal

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