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...

Introduction: Inappropriate advice interferes with the students’ achievementof educational and professional goals and they may fail to use proper resourcesfor their educational needs. The present study was carried out to compare thestudents’ satisfaction about the performance of academic advisors before andafter the advisor project in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This long...

introduction: inappropriate advice interferes with the students’ achievement of educational and professional goals and they may fail to use proper resources for their educational needs. the present study was carried out to compare the students’ satisfaction about the performance of academic advisors before and after the advisor project in shahrekord university of medical sciences. methods: this...

Author Background: Dr. Yair Wiseman teaches and advises MSc and PhD students at Bar-Ilan University, Israel Aircraft Industries, and Holon Institute of Technology. He has an MSc and PhD from Bar-Ilan University, and Albert Einstein is his academic great-great-grandfather (i.e., the advisor of the advisor of the advisor of Dr. Wiseman’s advisor). Dr. Wiseman completed two postdocs: at the School...

The ability to recognize students’ weakness and solve any problem that may confront them in timely fashion is always a target for all educational institutions. Thus, colleges and universities implement the so-called academic advising affairs. On the academic advisor relies the responsibility of solving any problem that may confront students’ learning progress. This paper shows how the advisor c...

Although previous studies have offered empirical and anecdotal support for academic mentoring, there are still considerable gaps in understanding the specific actions or components that are present in these relationships. Research has shown that academic faculty mentors provide all of Kram’s (1988) mentoring functions to their graduate student protégés. Despite numerous claims to the presence o...