Delivering Advising as Teaching in a Technology-Mediated Environment: Evidence From the Field

• In Event: 79.050 - MTCC Roundtable Session 36
  In Roundtable Session: 79.050-9 - Success in Online Higher Education Environments

Abstract

Though it is widely accepted that good postsecondary advising practice contributes to improved student retention and persistence, little is known about how those “good” practices are developed and more importantly how they are carried out in practice. Through conducting a large-scale, multi-semester, study aimed at understanding how major advising reform occurs and impacts student success, this paper will illustrate how developmental or advising as teaching (AaT) practices are successfully designed and executed in an era of declining enrollments, restricted funding, and advising caseloads in the hundreds. Utilizing data from 200 interviews from advisors and students over two semesters at three institutions, the authors describe how AaT, when implemented methodically, facilitates knowledge, skills, and cognitive development among vulnerable, high-need students.

Authors

• Andrea Lopez, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Lauren Pellegrino, Community College Research Center

• Hoori Santikian Kalamkarian, Community College Research Center