The Provost's Committee on Academic Advising shall facilitate communication and disseminate information among those units whose responsibility it is to advise students on the Norman and Oklahoma City campuses. In addition, the Committee will provide leadership in creating a community of academic advisors, which emphasizes service, professionalism, support and the potential for growth.

Committee Goals: ·

• to develop a definition of academic advising which reflects the activities in which advisers engage,

• to provide a rationale for the advising process and acknowledge and support the personal dimension of the advising relationship;
  
  
• to serve as a clearing house for information concerning potential changes in prerequisites, general program and course requirements, certification procedures and criteria, course offerings, courses closed to further enrollment, enrollment dates and procedures, etc;

• to act as liaison and information conduits for the involved units and other units

• to develop, organize and promote professional development and training activities for academic advisers on the Norman and Oklahoma City campuses;

• to strengthen the working relationships between professional and faculty academic advisers;

• to devise uniform guidelines and methodologies for evaluating the advising process on both campuses.

Definition of Academic Advising