Spring 2010 Advising Information and Appointments.

Hello Daniel Nester Advisee!

As you probably know, Advisement Day will be Tuesday, November 10.

This will explain what you need to do before your advising appointment, as well as outline how to set up an appointment with me. If you are a continuing advisee, you probably know the drill; if you are a new advisee, I urge you read all of these directions, and email me with any questions before we meet.

The goal of this 15- to 20-minute meeting is for me to advise you on which classes you should take, to approve your tentative schedule, and give you a PIN number so you can register for classes.

We have a short time to accomplish this.

This means Student Advisees need to do some work before we meet.

Advisement meetings will take place in my office: Dolan Hall, 442 Western Avenue, 1st floor, Room #2 on the right. My office phone number is 518-454-2812; my email is nesterd at strose dot edu.

How to Prepare for Your Advising Appointment
1. Email me to sign up for a meeting as soon as possible.
The Sign-Up Sheet with appointment times is posted at the end of this post. Check this page and refresh it often. Advisement times are on a first-email, first-served basis. There are more than as many appointment times as there are advisees.

2. Obtain and fill out a Course Registration Form.
This is important. You need to show up to your appointment with a filled-out and complete Course Registration Form.

If you don't, I'll just tell you to set up another time later on Advisement Day or meet during my office hours. 

Where can you get a Course Registration Form?  English Department secretary Barbara Dickson keeps copies in her office in Marcelle Hall, as does the Registrar in Saint Joseph Hall’s Student Solution Center. The College has a PDF version of the form on their website, which you can print out and fill out.  Please do not come to our advisement appointment without filling out the top matter of this form (i.e., your name and address) and courses you need to take. If we change your choices through the course of our meeting, we can simply cross one course out and add another.

Bottom line: Bring the form and fill it out beforehand. If you do not come to our appointment without a filled-out form, I will not meet you and we will have to reschedule our appointment. If you show up without a form at all or with simply a blank form, there’s no point in meeting, since a large part of our meeting will consist of me looking at you writing out your address.

3. Login to Banner (bannerweb.strose.edu) and review your Academic Progress report. Print the report out. Look at it and see if all of your classes are falling into the right places. Identify which areas in your English major requirements as well as your Liberal Education requirements you still need to fulfill.

3a. If you are a transfer student, looking at your Academic Progress Report is doubly important. Make sure that your transfer classes are there, that nothing looks strange or out of place, that your transferred classes are also “counting” for requirements you think they should be. For example, that a class you thought fulfilled a requirement is not languishing in your General Electives on the bottom-right-hand corner of your report. You should also have a copy of your Statement of Transfer Credit report, which tallies up which classes you took at your previous institution, and tells you where it will apply in the College of Saint Rose degree requirement. If there are any questions or problems, please come with these questions at our meeting, and we can figure out the next step.

Those of you who have already met me for an advising appointment know that I take ample notes in your student folder regarding what administrative tasks need to be done to make sure classes are falling in the right places in the Academic Progress Report, there are no clerical errors, etc. If you need to see another person or go to another department about changing where a class falls in your Academic Progress Report, I write this down in your file. If the issue has been resolved, I write this down in our notes; conversely, if steps have not been taken since our last advising meeting, I write this down as well.

4. Review the semester’s English Department Course Offerings as well as the College-wide courses. The course listing with descriptions are online here. Hard copy is available in the English Department office buildings. Look at your Academic Progress report and identify which kind of English courses you need to take.

This is your major; read the courses descriptions and come with questions about particular courses. Figure out your schedule as far as days of the week are concerned. And finally: Have an idea of which English course(s) you would like to take next semester (as well as Summer, if applicable).

Advisement Times for November 10, 2009


10:00 Emma T [advisee]
10:30 Teresa F [advisee]
11:00 Jonathan D [advisee]
11:30
12:00 Kristen O [advisee]
12:30 Internship midterm meetings 2 [Lauren R, Shaakira J, Nicole C, Kyle M + others]

1:00 Tony G [advisee]
1:30 Dana C
2:30
3:00 Katelyn L [advisee]
3:30 Jordan H [advisee]
4:00 Timothy W [advisee]
4:30 Ashley M [advisee]