Academic Advising During Program Discontinuance

Ethics in Academic Advising

Academic advisors confront many ethical problems and benefit from being able to draw on a system of ethical principles. Such principles, to be credible, should be philosophically defensible and not merely reflective of individual tastes. This article proposes such a set of principles, shows how they can be used to cope with ethical dilemmas, and explains why such dilemmas cannot be prevented. T...

A Multi-Agent System for Academic Advising

The evolution of the Internet into the Global Information Infrastructure has led to an explosion in the amount of available information. Realizing the vision of distributed knowledge access in this scenario and its future evolution will need tools to customize the information space. In this article we present MASACAD, a multi-agent system that learns to advise students and discuss important pro...

The Bayesian Advisor Project: Modeling Academic Advising

An academic advisor's job requires that the advisor knows university and departmental requirements; available courses to satisfy those requirements, and a method for predicting relative student success for various course options. Such predictions are necessarily uncertain, both because the advisor has limited information about the student and because student performance can be in-uenced by unfo...

Advising on travel during pregnancy.

As travel increases, the number of pregnant women who travel will probably rise. Women often ask if travel is safe in pregnancy and seek advice from a range of healthcare professionals. Travel related maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality can be completely avoided only by postponing travel until after delivery, but travel may be necessary or desirable during pregnancy. Most women are “low ...

Holland’s Theory and Implications for Academic Advising and Career Counseling