Module 1: Meeting Your Academic Advisor

Overview

The Center for Student Excellence houses seven academic advisors and is led by the Director of First Year Advising, Deborah Mayhew. The goal of the academic advisors is to help each student understand their purpose in being in college and to find the right major. All first year engineering students have an assigned academic advisor. This helps students to develop an advising relationship with someone they can trust in their first year. Advisors can help students discover the major or career path that’s right for them, point students toward campus resources, and connect them to clubs and design teams.

Objectives

By the end of this module, students will be able to:

• Locate the Center for Student Excellence.
• Identify their assigned advisor.
• Recognize student responsibilities and tasks.

To Do List

• Watch module videos:
  • Center for Student Excellence Links to an external site. (01:19)

  • Meeting Your Academic Advisor Links to an external site. (03:54) PDF Download PDF

  • Meeting Your Peer Advisors Links to an external site. (02:18)

• Complete required readings:

  • Center for Student Excellence Hours and Location Links to an external site.
  • Who is my advisor? Links to an external site.
  • Getting to Know My Advisor! Download Getting to Know My Advisor!
  • Advising Syllabus Download Advising Syllabus
• Take the Module 1: Advising Syllabus Quiz to move on to the next module

Additional Resources

• Family Guide to Student Excellence Links to an external site.
• HWCOE Peer Advisors Links to an external site.

If you are no longer pursuing engineering and would like to be removed from this course, please contact advising@eng.ufl.edu. Please include your UF ID.