LSA Advising

Your LSA academic advisor will be a primary resource for you from the time you meet at orientation to the time you graduate. He or she will keep in contact with you through individual appointments and regular e-mail messages. Your advisor can get to know you better if you share some things about yourself, such as academic interests, career aspirations, learning and study strengths and weaknesses, and relevant personal issues. You can begin by completing the online Academic Planning and Interest Survey.

You and your advisor will work to create a plan that will allow you to discover and pursue your academic interests. Through this process you will be able to decide on the concentration best fitted to your skills, interests, and future goals. Your advisor can give you tips on how to manage the demands of a large university and make use of campus resources. If you experience academic difficulty, your advisor can explore available options with you.

Meet with your advisor to:

LSA Advising Services

Peer Advisors

You will first be introduced to our peer advisors at orientation. Peer advisors are upper class students who have been trained by our advising office. They will work alongside of our general advisors to help you put together your schedule and register for classes. Once classes start, peer advisors are available through walk-in appointments in the Newnan Advising Center. Peer advisors can be a great resource to find out what classes are like here, which professors are good ones to take classes from, as well as what campus life is like here.

Residence Hall Advising

Living in close proximity to anywhere from 75 to 1,350 other students, and even just sharing a room with one other person can bring their own set of challenges to productive and effective studying. Adaptability and flexibility are key to making a successful transition to college life in many ways, and study habits are no exception. Whether you find that you work best alone or in a group, in absolute quiet or with lots of background noise, putting in the effort to find out what environment works best for you and then finding the times and places that provide this will be rewarded many times over. All of the reshalls have lounges and computer facilities, but you should definitely consider also going further afield.

As for advising, there are many resources right in your reshall to assist you all year long. Each residence hall will have a Peer Academic Success Specialist (PASS), who is an experienced student who has been trained to answer questions related to academics in the college. You should also be on the lookout for special programs and workshops organized by your PASS, sometimes in collaboration with other reshall staff, e.g. Resident Assistant (RA) and Minority Peer Advisor (MPA), or in concert with a living learning community in the hall, e.g. MCSP (Michigan Community Scholars Program) in Couzens, LHSP (Lloyd Hall Scholars Program) and HSSP (Health Science Scholars Program) in Lloyd, and WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) in Mosher Jordan. Topics can range from study skills and time and stress management to internships and study abroad to resume writing. Be sure to find out who and where the advising resources in your hall are.