- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Proper Planning Promotes Proper Processes. Proper Processes Produce Pleased People: A Case Study of the Quality of Academic Advising for Undergraduate Business Majors at a Private Historically
- Creator:
- Vance, D'Shaun, Clark Atlanta University
- Date of Original:
- 2022-08
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine how academic advising is perceived by students and what academic advisors (faculty and staff) need to do to be of better service to the students at a private historically Black university. The samples of this study consisted of 121 students within the researched institution's School of Business and six full-time academic advisors. The results from students and academic advisors were compared, specifically concerning the developmental advising style, to explore students' perceptions and acceptance of the style and the academic advisors' comfortability and ability to advise developmentally. The major findings of the study revealed students prefer to be advised developmentally and academic advisors prefer to advise developmentally as well but lack the support and training to consistently provide developmental advising. Each of the academic advisors reported the absence of training and support needed to provide developmental advising. Thus, there is a significant need to establish a formal training program for academic advisors to reinforce the developmental academic advising style, policies, procedures, and best practices in the field so that they can become more effective advisors and deliver an academic advising program of quality.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2022_vance_dshaun
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Additional Rights Information:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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