F. Advising
Advising is a required activity for all faculty members within departmental programs at WIT. WIT’s advising mission is to help students achieve success within their respective academic programs. However, it is a much more challenging activity above and beyond trying to help students stay on track with their program of study. My advisees frequently visit me during office hours to get advice on passing courses, speaking to other faculty members, dealing with roommate issues, needing letters of references and many other reasons. In addition, advising goes above one-on-one faculty-to-student meetings, which includes program advising, liaison with admissions, curriculum planning, and more. The following areas represent my advising areas and roles:
A. Departmental Advising
1. Faculty Advisor
2. Program Coordinator
3. ECP Advisor
4. BSM Website Coordinator
B. Other Interaction
1. Liaison with Co-op Office
2. Liaison with Admissions
3. Alumni Relations
4. References/ Recommendations
5. Curriculum Planning
6. Honor Society
A. Departmental Advising
I am faculty advisor for approximately 40 students per year. My advising role includes helping students select classes each semester, helping new freshman learn how to register for classes, helping students stay on track, and helping those students off track come up with a new program of study each semester which will lead them to graduate as close as possible to their original graduation date.
In addition, I am the Technology Management concentration (discussed earlier) coordinator within the management department. Besides developing and teaching the courses, I advise management students on whether they are the right fit for this concentration. I also visit freshman level management courses yearly to present the concentration to management students and to answer questions.
I am also the ECP advisor within our department. Since I teach the freshman level class that gets them started on their ECPs, I am considered the “go to” faculty when students need help or suggestions in developing their ECPs over the years. I meet with students on a regular basis individually to help with technical concerns, design concerns, and content issues. Also, this past year I conducted two ECPS workshops to help students with final ECP preparation for senior graduate submission and plan to do so each year.
Within our department, I am also the BSM Web site Project Manager. The BSM Web site used to be a volunteer
B. Other Interaction
As mentioned earlier, advising is not limited to internal departmental activities. It also includes other interaction. Each year I meet with the management student co-op advisor to discuss focus, ECP usage, and any challenges for Co-op placements. We also discuss the ways to improve student learning and objectives to match with current job placement trends. Yearly, the entire management department meets with the advising office to keep the focus on our department and to address any recruiting concerns that we may have. As mentioned earlier, since I am the faculty advisor for the BSM Web site I am able to keep up with a great deal of BSM alumni students to determine their job placement, obtain feedback from them, and keep connections with many of them.
Regarding other areas of advising, I am often asked to write letters of references/recommendations for current and graduated students. Students must either be my advisee or have taken at least two classes with me in good standing to obtain letters from me. I am very honest with students who have a less than average track record for trying to obtain a letter from me.
Finally, my department head often consults with me regarding curriculum planning. We continually update our management curriculum based on current trends, evaluation from students, and external research. Most recently, I have been involved with course hour changes, which included course content learning objectives changes, based on feedback from management students and researching other schools’ programs for course transferability. These changes involved our Management Information Systems (MIS) course and our Business and Computers Applications course.
Finally, I have been president of our Honor Society (discussed in more detail in the service section) for a number of years. As part of this role I am part of the advising team regarding student honoree selection.
A. Departmental Advising
1. Faculty Advisor
2. Program Coordinator
3. ECP Advisor
4. BSM Website Coordinator
B. Other Interaction
1. Liaison with Co-op Office
2. Liaison with Admissions
3. Alumni Relations
4. References/ Recommendations
5. Curriculum Planning
6. Honor Society
A. Departmental Advising
I am faculty advisor for approximately 40 students per year. My advising role includes helping students select classes each semester, helping new freshman learn how to register for classes, helping students stay on track, and helping those students off track come up with a new program of study each semester which will lead them to graduate as close as possible to their original graduation date.
In addition, I am the Technology Management concentration (discussed earlier) coordinator within the management department. Besides developing and teaching the courses, I advise management students on whether they are the right fit for this concentration. I also visit freshman level management courses yearly to present the concentration to management students and to answer questions.
I am also the ECP advisor within our department. Since I teach the freshman level class that gets them started on their ECPs, I am considered the “go to” faculty when students need help or suggestions in developing their ECPs over the years. I meet with students on a regular basis individually to help with technical concerns, design concerns, and content issues. Also, this past year I conducted two ECPS workshops to help students with final ECP preparation for senior graduate submission and plan to do so each year.
Within our department, I am also the BSM Web site Project Manager. The BSM Web site used to be a volunteer
B. Other Interaction
As mentioned earlier, advising is not limited to internal departmental activities. It also includes other interaction. Each year I meet with the management student co-op advisor to discuss focus, ECP usage, and any challenges for Co-op placements. We also discuss the ways to improve student learning and objectives to match with current job placement trends. Yearly, the entire management department meets with the advising office to keep the focus on our department and to address any recruiting concerns that we may have. As mentioned earlier, since I am the faculty advisor for the BSM Web site I am able to keep up with a great deal of BSM alumni students to determine their job placement, obtain feedback from them, and keep connections with many of them.
Regarding other areas of advising, I am often asked to write letters of references/recommendations for current and graduated students. Students must either be my advisee or have taken at least two classes with me in good standing to obtain letters from me. I am very honest with students who have a less than average track record for trying to obtain a letter from me.
Finally, my department head often consults with me regarding curriculum planning. We continually update our management curriculum based on current trends, evaluation from students, and external research. Most recently, I have been involved with course hour changes, which included course content learning objectives changes, based on feedback from management students and researching other schools’ programs for course transferability. These changes involved our Management Information Systems (MIS) course and our Business and Computers Applications course.
Finally, I have been president of our Honor Society (discussed in more detail in the service section) for a number of years. As part of this role I am part of the advising team regarding student honoree selection.
