Academic Advising for Student Success – Developing an Institutional Framework

The Initative Team

Initiative Lead
University College Dublin

Primary Contact
Aine Galvin
aine.galvin@ucd.ie

Initiative Budget

€575,000

Initiative Type

Overview

This initiative is focused on developing an institutional framework for academic advising for student success. The framework will be aligned to UCD’s mission and values and will be developed in partnership with students and in consultation with the wider UCD community. It is envisaged that the framework will be sufficiently flexible to facilitate the development of bespoke academic advising systems in UCD, reflecting different advising contexts, student cohorts and disciplinary needs.

Oversight of the initiative is provided by the Academic Advisory Working Group, which was established at the request of the Registrar/Deputy President and chaired by the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. A core team working on the initiative are based in UCD Teaching and Learning.

The initiative comprises five work strands:

Strand 1: Consultation and research to build a picture of academic advising activities across UCD and to explore models of advising in comparator universities.

Strand 2: Piloting different approaches to academic advising through the development of an internal funding call aimed at programmes and schools. The pilots will be time-bound and appropriately resourced, with a strong focus on capturing key learnings.

Strand 3: Explore the potential of technology enhanced advising, including the use of existing data and systems in academic advising, flipped and online advising models and leveraging the VLE to support advising.

Strand 4: Professional development for those involved in academic advising including clarify on roles and responsibilities and access to resources and short courses.

Strand 5: Drafting of policies to enable university-wide implementation of academic advising.