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Increasing Community and Success in Advising Units by Conducting Effective Meetings

January 31, 2012

Why Meet?

Higher education in general and academic advising in particular are interesting fields. One of the things that makes them interesting is that very few people receive much formal training to do the work they perform on a daily basis. Professors are rarely taught how to teach, administrators have rarely received much formal training in administration or leadership, and many advisers have received little to no training in advising. As a result, much of the organizational learning that advisers and advising administrators experience comes via trial and error. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, as on-the-job training …

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