(May 6, 2008)

Title of Position:  Director of Academic Advising
Office: Academic Affairs
Reports To: Academic Vice President

Basic Mission of this Position:
The Director of Academic Advising is responsible for responsible for the University's efforts in traditional student advising, retention, and graduation by coordinating and evaluating existing programs and by designing and advocating improvement strategies. 

Duties and Responsibilities:
A. Academic Advising:

1. Maintain a successful traditional student academic advising program to improve student success, retention, and graduation by working collaboratively with faculty, student life, financial resources, admissions, and other branches of university administration.
2. Evaluate and make data driven recommendations for improving academic advising, retention, and graduation rates.
3. Coordinate the traditional student Freshman Advising Program and serve as the advisor for undeclared freshman.
4. Indentify at risk students (academically, financially and socially) to assist students in their college transition.
5. Ensure that each traditional student has an assigned advisor.
6. Provide advisors with the necessary training, data, and evaluations for effective advising.
7. Evaluate freshman transcripts (as regards placement in English, mathematics, chemistry, foreign languages, and other areas plus recommendations for specific courses and maximum number of attempted hours)
    h. Coordinate any placement testing for new students.
8. Summer registration sessions coordinator and advisor.
9. Early advising coordinator.
10. Evaluate transfer students' college transcripts, determining which courses will satisfy CBU major requirements, which courses will satisfy free electives, and which courses will not transfer at all.
11. Serve as the CBU official who explains to new transfer students which courses were accepted by CBU (and why) and which courses were not accepted by CBU (and why not).

1. Planning and implementation of effective strategies for student success and retention.
2. Conduct attrition studies and provide recommended solutions.
3. Providing leadership and support for the university's retention efforts.
4. Collecting and maintaining data on graduation and retention rates and trends.
5. Providing counseling for probationary freshmen and/or referrals to appropriate services.
6. Begin discussions and planning for an integrated First Year Experience Program

1. Chairs the Admissions Committee
2. Serve on Orientation Committee
3. Performing other duties, pertinent to the position, as assigned by the Academic Vice President and/or the President.

(May 6, 2008)