Five academic advisors hired for new Advising Center
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Momentum is building at the new Academic Advising and Exploration Center with the hiring of five academic advisors. These professionals are currently in training and will begin advising students spring semester.
Director Bruce Bukowski said that all have previous experience in advising at the college level along with strong technology skills.
“These professionals come from a diversity of backgrounds. For example, one speaks fluent Spanish, another speaks Hmong and another has worked in Disabled Student Services,” Bukowski explained. He added that one more person will be hired in December.
The initial focus of the center is on freshmen and those with undeclared majors.
The role of the academic advisors is to help students make the right choices before they declare their majors, providing them with the opportunity to explore different fields and career paths. Bukowski noted that so far the center has advised 82 people with three or four coming in each day.
To ease into the workload for Spring 2003, the center is targeting undeclared freshmen with fewer than 24 credits, freshmen pre-business majors, freshmen education majors and all communication majors with fewer than 24 credits. Those students with declared majors in the College of Letters and Sciences as well as art, theater and music majors will stay with their faculty advisors until next fall.
The new advisors include: Benny Belvin -consultant with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Matthew Jurvelin – advisor at the UW-LaCrosse, Pamela Tanner – advisor in Disabled Student Services at UW-Whitewater, Phillip Yang – advisor at UW-Madison and Kristine Yesbeck – special projects at UW-Milwaukee.
The Academic Advising and Exploration Center , which is located on the second floor of the Roseman Building, was initiated due to student requests for better advising support. It is funded through differentiated tuition along with a series of other retention initiatives.
- Jane Provorse,provorsj@uww.edu
