Academic Advising in Two‐year Colleges

Advising for special populations

“…These additional concerns suggest that more advising time is required for these students. However, Hines, Krause, and Endieveri (1980) found that the median advisorlstudent ratio with full-time students in the New York State community colleges was one to twenty; it was one to fifty with part-time students. T h e implication of this finding is that part-time students require less advising time.…”

The Perceptions Community College Advising Coordinators Have of Their Institutional Advising Models: An Exploratory Study

“…Providing quality academic advising services within higher education is widely proposed as a solution to increase student persistence, transfer rates to four-year institutions, and graduation rates for community college students (Donaldson et al, 2016;Hatch & Garcia, 2017;Mu & Fosnacht, 2019). However, the problem with providing quality academic advising services is not only managing the organization's unique set of institutional and administrative challenges but also delivering quality advising services (Hines et al, 1980;Karp, 2013;Vallandingham, 2008).…”