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Professionalization Of Academic Advising, Craig M. Mcgill
Professionalization Of Academic Advising, Craig M. Mcgill
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The purpose of this collected papers dissertation was to better understand the professionalization of academic advising. Advising can claim several features of widely-agreed upon professional components, but the question of whether academic advising constitutes a “profession” has caused much debate. Three primary obstacles stand in its way: advising is misunderstood and lacks a consistent unifying definition; there has not been a substantial literature to define the content and methodologies of the field; and there is insufficient empirical research demonstrating its effectiveness. Two studies were conducted.
Study #1 was a structured literature review of higher education, student affairs, and academic advising …