Follow-Up Survey on Online Counseling
and/or Advising
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no longer soliciting responses. Please check soon
for results.
The Academic Senate was directed
(Resolution 8.01, Fall 1999) to develop "clear
definitions and guidelines for web advising, including
issues such as legal issues, student confidentiality,
and ethics, for counseling faculty." To that
purpose, the Senate's Counseling and Library Faculty
Issues Committee is send out this online survey
on online counseling and/or advising to each Community
College counseling department (to the counseling
faculty chair or other designated person) in order
to get information that will help us develop a
framework and guidelines and to highlight areas
of "best practices."
The online survey is designed to provide the
highest level of confidentiality. We would ask
that you include your name and the name of your
college in case we need to contact you for further
information.
In an effort to ensure that respondents share
a common understanding of terminology used, please
refer to the following definitions when completing
the survey:
Counseling services should include assessment
of students' academic abilities, disabilities,
strengths and weaknesses; help in clarifying academic
goals and selecting a major; educational planning
for transfer, associate degrees and certificate
programs; referral to other support services when
indicated; intervention when students' academic
performance is at risk; and follow-up (e.g. academic
mentoring, early alert processes, and probation
counseling). The Title 5 (California Code of Regulations)
definition of the role of counseling faculty reiterates
the critical responsibility of the counselor to
support student success in such areas as student
self-assessment, decision-making, goal setting,
and goal implementation. Section 51018 of Title
5 lists the following functions for counseling
programs:
Academic counseling, in which the student
is assisted in assessing, planning and implementing
his or her immediate and long-range academic
goals
Career counseling, in which the student is
assisted in assessing his or her aptitudes,
abilities, and interests, and is advised concerning
the current and future employment trends.
Personal counseling, in which the student
is assisted with personal, family or other social
concerns then that assistance is related to
the student's education.
Advising, on the other hand, "focuses on
giving students the information they need to reach
their stated goals. Advisors explain and clarify
this information for students and present their
material in a manner sympathetic to the needs
and situation of the student. Advising responds
to student requests for discipline-specific information."
(The
Role of Counseling Faculty in the California Community
Colleges, page 12).
If you have any questions, please feel free to
contact me.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation. It
is greatly appreciated.
Dan Crump
Chair, ASCCC Counseling and
Library Faculty Issues Committee
North Representative, ASCCC
American River College
916/484-8167 crumpd@arc.losrios.edu
