ATTENTION: THIS WEB SITE HAS MOVED.The pages you are looking at are no longer being maintained.
Please go to http://www.poly.edu/cis/
to visit the new site of the Department of Computer and Information Science
at Polytechnic University.
To help students obtain the maximum benefit from the educational
opportunities offered at the University.
To acquaint students with the values of an engineering education and degree.
To assist students in understanding their abilities, interests, and
limitations.
To assist students in their consideration of life goals by relating
interests, skills, abilities, and values to careers and world of work.
To provide students with accurate information about the university,
college, and departmental requirements and associated time lines.
To assist students in developing decision-making skills.
To assist students in the development of a course of study including
the selection of electives which reflect the students' academic background
and academic goals.
To refer students to available campus and community resources, to
help them meet individual needs.
To make sufficient time available to meet with all students,
especially during the advising/registration and drop/add sessions.
To listening empathetically to the students' academic concerns but
also to other concerns and know how to direct students to the necessary
resources.
To explain to students their future academic and/or professional
options and opportunities and the course of study to pursue.
To provide students with alternatives, limitations, and possible
consequences of academic decisions.
To maintain comprehensive and confidential records of advising
contacts with students.