Our Mission

Purpose and Mission Statement
What is the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board?
What can you expect to find on the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board?
Why use the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board?
How does the Advisement Bulletin Board Work?
Where Is the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board Located?

Purpose and Mission Statement

The Academic Advisement Bulletin Board provides the University Community, with immediate access to comprehensive information about academic advisement policies and procedures. Because academic advisement is so important to student retention and success, and because the faculty play such a key role in the academic advising process, it is important that faculty have the necessary knowledge, skills and tools to assist them in their roles as academic advisers. It is also essential that students have the knowledge, skills, and tools to properly prepare for their academic advisement sessions and to take a pro-active role with their Academic Adviser in the advisement process.

What is the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board?

The University Advisement Bulletin Board has been designed to provide a mechanism through which advisers and students can ask their advisement questions and get timely and definitive answers to those questions.

The purpose of this Advisement Bulletin Board is not to replace one-on-one academic advisement sessions between faculty advisers and students. The purpose is to augment the one-on-one advisement sessions between faculty advisers and students, to help both faculty and students better prepare for the advisement sessions, and to provide a means to clarifying advisement issues, processes, procedures, resulting in better informed faculty advisers and more satisfied students.

The Academic Advisement Bulletin Board does not replace the use of the General Catalog or the Schedule of Classes during advisement sessions. "Advise" augments and clarifies information contained in those resources, when necessary, in accordance with the nature of the academic advisement question.

Faculty and students are encouraged to use the Advisement Bulletin Board, not only to raise advisement and advisement related questions, but also to view the information that has already been entered under the various Advisement Topics and Sub Topics listed in the Table of Contents. In all probability, many of your advisement Q’s and A’s are already on the Bulletin Board.

It is designed to be easily accessed:

prior to the academic advisement session

to become more familiar with the advisement process
to prepare a list of advisement questions and concerns to be discussed during the advisement session
to have the necessary information available during the advisement session

during the advisement session as advisement questions come up

to help clarify policies and procedures related to advisement issues
to find "definitive" answers to advisement questions
to see if changes in policy or procedure have taken place

following the advisement session in preparation for a follow-up appointment

to make certain that the advisement information is correct, to find out more information on how to proceed, what the rules and regulations are governing the particular advisement issues, to find and recommend additional resources in resolving the advisement question or need.

What can you expect to find on the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board?

Example:

Q: Does a student who began community college in Fall 1990, transferred to CSU, back to community college, and then to CSLA in Fall 1995, need to take English 102?

A: If the student maintained "continuing" student attendance status, the answer is no. By maintaining Continuing Student Status, the student retains the original Catalog date of Fall 1990. This is because the student maintained continuous enrollment (did not break matriculation) with the California Community College District system and the CSU system. If the student did not maintain "continuing" student status (in accordance with University policy) prior to entering CSLA beginning Summer Quarter 1993, then English 102 is required. The date used to determine the English 102 requirement is the date the student entered CSLA and/or when the student started college and/or whether the student maintained "Continuing Student Status" (California Community College, another California State University, or a combination of these).

The Catalog used to determine English 102 requirement is the Student’s General Education Catalog Date.

When would FACULTY ACADEMIC ADVISORS want to Use "Advise"?

Are you often asked advisement questions that are difficult to answer?

Are there advisement questions which you are unsure how to answer, or for which you do not know the answer?

Are some advisement processes and procedures unclear?

Do you have difficulty keeping up with changes in policies and procedures impact your advisement information?

Are you uncertain about how to read or interpret some of the advisement information on OASIS or GET?

Do you need up-to-date advisement knowledge?

Would you like to double check your response to an advisement issue or question before making a decision?

When would STUDENTS want to Use "Advise"?

Are you unsure of how to prepare for your academic advisement appointment?
Do you have a general advisement question that you need answered or need to know how to go about finding the answer?
Are some academic advisement processes and procedures unclear?
Would you like additional information on an advisement issue or question?
Do you need to clarify an advisement issue or concern?

Why use the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board?

"Advise" Q’s and A’s address advisement policies and procedures, university requirements, and general education and major program requirements. Advisement information on "Advise" includes everything from graduation issues, to transfer and articulation agreements. Additionally, the bulletin board is used to update the campus community on changes in university policies and regulations as they are approved. This reduces the wait for dissemination of this information in the General Catalog and the Schedule of Classes. The use of "Advise" should result in fewer advisement errors and will provide more timely answers and solutions to advisement questions and problems.

If you have academic advisement related questions such as the ones listed below, then "Advise" is for you!

Q. Which date is used to determine the English 102 requirement?
Q. How does G.E. Catalog date and continuing student status affect the English 102 requirement?
Q. What are the recent changes policy in the use of the Repeat Course Petition for academic renewal?
Q. How is Advanced Placement Test Credit obtained for Pols 150?
Q. What is the process for substituting G.E. courses that have not been officially articulated?
Q. If courses are required for both a major and a minor, can the courses count for both?
Q. Is there a problem with a student completing a G.E. courses at CSLA and transferring it back to community college for G.E. Certification?
Q. What are Double Counted courses and how do they work?
Q. What SAT scores are needed to be exempt from the ELM and EPT?

How does the Advisement Bulletin Board Work?

The Academic Advisement Center identified approximately 200 advisement Questions through the use of an academic advisement questionnaire distributed during Winter 1995. These questions along with the answers to them were entered on the "Advise" site and provide the framework for organizing the advisement Topics and Subtopics on advisement questions and related issues.

Specific Questions and Answers are found under the Subtopics.

Step 1:

Some of your advisement Questions and Answers to those questions may already be on the "Advise" Advisement Bulletin Board.

Simply scroll through the MAIN TOPICS AND SUBTOPICS to see if your specific advisement question/issue/concern and corresponding answer is already on the "Advise" Bulletin Board QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Select the Topic, Subtopic and scroll through the Questions and Answers.

Step 2:

If you do not find your specific advisement question and answer already posted on the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board, simply click on the new posting icon.

Type in your advisement related question(s).

Include your name, email address, and phone number.

Step 3:

Look for the answer(s) to your question(s) within 24 hours (excluding weekends). Please note that additional turn around response time may be required for advisement questions that may require more in-depth research on the part of Academic Advisement Center prior to replying and posing the "definitive" answer for the campus community to see.

Where Is the Academic Advisement Bulletin Board Located?

This Academic Advisement Bulletin Board is housed in the Academic Advisement Center, Library South (Palmer Wing), 1040A and faculty can access through the Internet at http://www.calstatela.edu/advisement. It is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Academic Advisement Center.