Setting Expectations: a first communication to advisees

Sending an Email communication prior to advising

An early email communication is a simple way establish initial contact, introduce yourself, and share your expectations. The global address list function on Outlook enables you to access and send email communications to all of your advisees at once. To view and download a sample email template, click here. For guidelines on accessing an email address list of all of your advisees, click here.

Include these documents with your message:

Student Profile Form

The profile form provides you with information about advisees including specific information they would like to know about their major, out-of-class activities they wish to pursue, academic skills they would like to develop, and the personal support services they want to know about. This is a useful tool to use to initiate conversations about goal setting and long term educational planning and to refer students to other campus resources. To access the profile form for freshmen, click here; for continuing and transfer students, click here.

an Advising "Syllabus"

The Advising "Syllabus" functions basically the same way an actual syllabus does, allowing you to provide contact information, key dates, and an outline of expectations for the advising process. To access an advising "syllabus" template, click here. The template can be downloaded, personal information added, and content edited according to what you wish to communicate to advisees.