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Shari Schoohs, Academic Advisor

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

Shari is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse SAA program and got her job as an academic advisor at Academic Advising Center at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is a transfer advisor and her main job duties is helping students transfer their credits to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, such as, transfer evaluation. In addition, she also works for Eagle Alert. As a beginner, Shari has a few professional goals. Being a director, working at different institution and getting a doctor degree are all her professional goals. She loves working with students and loves changing. However, she thinks the field that she works change so low. The challenge that she faces currently are how to balance all her duties together and figure out what her goal really is. Communication, problem solving, creative thinking ability and being personable are the skills that she thinks academic advisor needs to have and NCADA Journal is the journal that she suggests students who interested in this field to read.

Challenge:

There are two challenges that academic advisors are facing now. Sue mentions about students really rely on the academic advisor and they even do not have the awareness that they also have something need to do. For example, when students want to transfer their credits to a new school, instead of asking their original school academic advisors what courses can they transfer, they need to contact with the new school academic advisors to check what courses can they transfer. Another challenge is the student awareness. For freshman students who are not familiar with school system, they don’t have the awareness that they can get help from academic advisor. Marjorie, who is a sophomore student now, sharing her experience with me. Although she lives in a first year experience hall (almost all the students are first year students), which has full time academic advisor work in there, she did not go there often. However, as a sophomore student, she has the awareness that she can get help from the academic advisor. “If I could go back and do it again, I would have gone back and visited the academic advisor in the hall more” (Marjorie Collins, personal communication, 11/3/2016). Thus, helping freshman students set up the awareness that they can get get help from academic advisors is another challenge that academic advisors face.

Conferences:

NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising

October 11-14, 2017

St. Louis, Mo

America’s Center

Graduate Student Membership Costs: Free

Professional Membership: $35

https://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/Annual-Conference.aspx

N4A: The National Association of Academic Advisor for Athletics

Membership Costs: Professional ($125), Non-Division I Professional ($75), Affiliate ($125), Student ($50)

Region II Conference: Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 16-18, 2016/11/24

N4A Annual conference & Tradeshow: 42nd Annual Conference & Tradeshow, July 29-August 2, 2017 in Savannah, Georgia

http://www.n4a.org/conference

Current Job Posting:

Academic Advisor

Kent State University

Kent, OH

Job Open Date: 11/22/2016

Job Close Date: 12/06/2016

Type: Full Time

Education & Experience Required: Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

https://jobs.kent.edu/postings/11504?utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed

Academic Advisor

Kansas University

Kansas, KS

Application Start Date: 12/15/2016

Application Due: Open Until Filled

Education & Experience Required: master’s degree in education, counseling, or a related field, experience working with officials in high schools, post-secondary institutions, target area community partners.