Basic Resources

Basic Resources (and some Advisor Workshop Content)

Here you will find a starting point for advisor development and links to many of the resources used during the advisor workshops.  Advisor development often occurs in a series of circles; you may return to some of the same tasks with a deeper understanding of what is possible to help your students achieve.

Developmental advising—the philosophy endorsed by NACADA

Developing pro-active advisees—help move students toward helping themselves 

 

From the Advisor Workshop:

Link to the Alma College FERPA privacy policy HERE

Degree Clearance form with links to the AC Catalog

 

Useful across several advising years:

Potential interventions for performance or program

 

Take a quick look at the "Additional Resources" page to see what else is available.

Please check back here from time to time, in order to see what has been added. 

 

Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Karen Ball

Dr. Karen Ball
Departments: Integrative Physiology & Health Science

Dr. Karen Ball, associate professor of integrative physiology and health science, graduated magna cum laude from Alma College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the exercise and health science program in 1987.

Ball received her doctorate in physiology and biophysics at the University of Illinois. Before coming to Alma she spent one and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.