Academic advising serves as a crucial support system within higher education, where faculty members play a vital role in orienting students to the university and college's policies and regulations. This process entails providing personalized guidance that helps students navigate their academic journeys effectively. Advisors work to increase students' awareness of their educational responsibilities, which include understanding degree requirements, course prerequisites, and institutional deadlines.
Additionally, academic advising encourages students to engage proactively with their educational experience. Advisors offer resources and strategies for addressing study-related challenges, including time management techniques, study skills development, and access to tutoring or academic workshops. By fostering this supportive relationship, academic advisors empower students to take charge of their education, build problem-solving skills, and ultimately reach their educational and career objectives. This collaborative effort not only enhances students' academic performance but also contributes to their overall personal growth and success within the university environment.
Academic Advising Concept
Academic advising is a crucial component of the educational system. It serves as a thoughtful response to the social, economic, and individual factors that underpin education and its philosophy. Additionally, academic advising addresses students' needs, helping them connect with university education to fulfill their potential for creativity and excellence, which is essential for national development. The academic advising process is centered around two main aspects: the educational institution and the student. This process is supported by specialized academic advisors who collaborate throughout the academic year as part of the Academic Advising Committee. Effective academic advising depends on the awareness and understanding of all participants involved. The primary goal is to guide students in choosing the best paths for achieving success and adapting to the university environment. This is accomplished by equipping students with various academic skills to enhance their academic performance, discussing their aspirations, and increasing their understanding of university regulations and policies. This support is provided through a range of counseling services, including academic advising, individual counseling programs, and multiple consultations.
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Academic Advising Philosophy
The academic advising philosophy includes social, economic, cultural, human, and cognitive foundations that aspire to achieve some related characteristics such as flexibility, adaptability and choice, and meeting individual needs, which center on ensuring the success of the educational process and achieving the best scientific outcomes for the student by helping him choose the best alternatives in each semester according to the study plan and their academic status and progress, the student reconciles his educational needs and personal circumstances.
Axes of Academic Advising
The axes of academic advising are:
1. The Student:
The student is considered the center of the academic process. Without organized and directed academic guidance, the student is responsible for becoming familiar with the university's rules and regulations once accepted. As a result of the individual differences between the students, some can know the rules and regulations and work to adapt to them. On the other hand, some are ignorant of many of those systems and regulations, leading to academic problems such as low grades, repetition, dismissal....etc., which bears its responsibilities due to ignorance of the systems and the ineffectiveness of the academic advising system.
2. The educational institution, which is:
• Academic advisor: The role of the academic advisor (faculty members and their assistants) is to help the student make sound decisions that will help him succeed in his educational career.
• Deanship of Admission and Registration: The role of the Deanship of Admission and Registration is summarized in registering the student's academic courses according to the academic advisor's signature on the registration forms. Follow-up monitoring of grades and students' educational records, as well as the unit, applies to the university's and college regulations according to the student's specialization.
• The college is the body that issues study plans for each major and appoints the academic advisor after considering the number of accepted students and faculty members.
3. Updates on university systems and regulations
Academic Advising Programs
Academic advising programs are as follows:-
• Orientation programs for new students to introduce the system of study and examinations, adapt to university studies, and familiarize them with their rights and duties.
• Guidance programs to help students with special needs during their university life achieve the highest academic achievement according to their abilities, study their problems, and work to solve them.
• Guidance programs for struggling students to help them overcome their struggles, achieve the desired success, and overcome the obstacles and problems they face.
• Guidance programs for outstanding students to help them continue and increase their excellence, and encourage and motivate other students.
• Guidance programs for scholarship students will help them identify what will help them achieve their goal of continuing their studies and overcome any obstacles or problems they may encounter to be good advocates.
• Guidance programs are organized for all students to help them improve their academic level and achievement. These programs will be implemented through the Academic Advising Unit, which will develop an executive plan for the university's general plan for academic advising to begin its implementation. The unit also evaluates its program and submits it to the Dean of the University, who extracts an evaluation report from the college for the extension work at the university level.
| Chairman of The Academic Advising Committee | Phone | |
| DR. Ryan Ibrahim Hassan Duhaim | rihasan@kku.edu.sa | 0172407588 |