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In this component of the campus's educational effectiveness review,
academic advising at UC Santa Cruz is set in the larger context the
history of academic advising in American universities, some of the
issues about the effectiveness and efficiency of UC Santa Cruz's
current advising program are described, and steps to improve it
within available resources are set forth.
In particular, this essay describes
the current academic advising system at UC Santa Cruz, relating it
to the functional components of academic advising in American higher
education, and briefly compares it to models at other UC campuses. A
discussion of issues of effectiveness and efficiency (concentrating
on campus-wide coordination of the advising effort, the anticipated
effects of the implementation of the new campus Academic Information
System (AIS), and the complementary roles of faculty and staff) sets
the stage for suggested steps by which UC Santa Cruz can improve its
advising processes.
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