Advising Manual at UMFK

• Students may add/drop courses from the time registration opens up through the end of the first week of the semester.
• Check the Registrar's web page for important dates and information.
• Contact and support, or refer, as appropriate, continuing advisees who may be at risk, on probation, or otherwise are experiencing academic difficulty.
• The Academic Alert process can be helpful for newly admitted students who experience difficulty. Consider encouraging departmental community by scheduling student-faculty group gatherings during the semester.

• Continue to connect one-on-one with advisees (either initial or follow-up meetings).
• Work with advisees to prepare and approve their advance registration for the spring semester.
• Academic alert extends throughout the semester.
• In addition to indicating possible academic risk for students in the classes you teach, you may receive similar notices about students you advise.
• Intervention strategies may help avert some problems, so consider scheduling appointments with your at-risk advisees (probation, returning from suspension) for referral to resources.

Winter Registration

Depending on the number of your advisees, advance registration appointments may continue into November. Matriculated students register for spring courses beginning about the middle of this month.

Winter Session Registration continues.

Consider sponsoring a departmental effort to contact continuing majors who have not yet registered. In late December, term grades are posted; Winter Session begins. Non-matriculated students register during Open Registration period.

• Typically, during the first week of the month, grades have been posted and GPAs are updated.
• About a week before the spring semester begins, Orientation is held for incoming students, both transfer and first-year.
• As appropriate within your department, you may be participating in Orientation and/or reviewing folders of new majors.
• Non-matriculated students register during the Open Registration period.
• Spring semester begins, and Add/Drop period is the first two weeks of classes.
• Consider meeting early in the semester with advisees who are on Academic Probation to guide them through the academic recovery process.
• Consider encouraging departmental community by scheduling student-faculty group gatherings during the semester.

• Academic alert extends throughout the semester.
• In addition to indicating possible academic risk for students in the classes you teach, you may receive similar notices about your own advisees.
• Early intervention strategies may help avert some problems, so consider scheduling appointments with your at-risk students and advisees for referral to resources.

Begin to work with current advisees to prepare and approve advance registration for the fall semester and summer session.

Last Date to Withdraw. Check to confirm the official later date to withdraw without academic penalty.

• Fall and Summer Session registration begins.
• Continue to hold advance registration appointments as matriculated students register for fall courses.

Typically, by the end of this month, grades have been posted and GPA’s are updated.

Continue to meet with advisees as appropriate. Consider sponsoring a departmental effort to contact continuing majors who have not yet registered.

• Continue to meet with advisees as appropriate.
• Consider sponsoring a departmental effort to contact continuing majors who have not yet registered.
• This is the time to review folders of incoming advisees.
• Faculty usually meet new students during the School/College and Departmental Advising sessions during Bengal Bound days.