2013 Annual Conference
November 5–8, 2013
Lexington, KY
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The Challenges of Academic Advising in an Era of Increased Faculty Workloads
Type of Presentation
Concurrent Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
This session will discuss the research findings of adult education master's degree students' perception of their academic advising experience, including the important factors of influence.
Target Audience
The target audience is all Professors of Adult Education, University Administrators, and adult learners enrolled in adult, higher, and continuing educaiton programs.
Learning Outcomes
The adult learners will develop a better understanding as to the factors in which adult education graduate students perceive as important with respect to their academic advising experience. This session will discuss to what extent the graduate students are satisfied with their academic advising experience. In addition, this session will identification of those factors that influence the graduate students' perception of their academic advisor's roles and responsibilities as it pertains to the faculty members' work load.
Session Description
This session will discuss the findings of numerous factors in which the adult education faculty in an adult education graduate program were rated positively with respect to the adult learners' master's degree experience. However, the findings also illustrate that the faculty were rated consistently lower with respect to academic advising than the other five content areas. As a result, it is important for us as adult educators to be able to identify our weaknesses so that we can take steps to improve our performance as adult education faculty. This topic is extremely important with respect to graduate student satisfaction and student retention. In an era when university administrators are focused upon student credit hours, student retention, and faculty workloads, this session will prove beneficial to those adult education faculty and department chairs who are working in turbulent academic environments.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Wednesday November 6
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Dr. Jonathan E. Messemer, Cleveland State University
Work Title
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Adult Learning and Development