5 Tips for Surviving Advising Season

[This post originally appeared in October of 2011, and given that it's that time of the semester again, we decided to republish it today.]

Mention “advising students” as part of faculty workload, and people off-campus probably conjure warm images of a faculty member expansively chatting with a student, probably a major, about future plans, career prospects, and, of course, next semester’s schedule, which is always full of courses the student wants to take, that don’t conflict, and that fulfill ...