Advisement at

The College at Brockport

As a Brockport student, you're assigned a faculty advisor from the day you arrive on campus until the day you graduate. If you enter as a freshman, the instructor of your Academic Planning Seminar (APS) will be your advisor until you choose a major, and then you're assigned an advisor from your major department. If you transfer to The College at Brockport from another college, you'll be assigned an advisor from the appropriate department - if you've chosen your major - or a generalist, if you haven't. All of this is known as faculty-based advisement, but it still requires central coordination, and that's a major responsibility of the Office of Academic Advisement.

In addition to coordinating The College at Brockport's faculty-based advisement system, the Office of Academic Advisement also:

evaluates all transcripts from other institutions to determine Brockport credit
conducts the College's probation and dismissal program
coordinates the Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS) and transfer course articulation
coordinates all advisement and registration programs for new freshmen and transfers
monitors academic eligibility for state and federal financial aid

If you have questions about academic policies or procedures and you can't locate your own advisor (or he/she can't locate the information you need), you can be sure you'll get an answer or an explanation at Academic Advisement. You also can be sure of finding any of the various forms that are required in the advisement process, and some assistance in completing them and getting them to the right place.

Meeting Your Advisor