
First Advising Meeting
Advising New First-Year and Transfer Students
ESU offers resources to help you understand your advising duties. Your department chair should provide training and support during your first semester (one-on-one training, discussions during department meetings, etc.). Please carefully review the requirements for your degree program as well as General Education requirements.
Spending a little extra time with new students will allow them to take ownership of their degree requirements. A few suggestions:
- Make students aware of the department's advising resources (e.g., 4 year curriculum plans in catalog, major’s handout, D2L site for majors)
- Have them log in to the MyESU portal:
- Show them how to access degreeworks
- Explain the legend (complete, in progress)
- Ask your chair about any discrepancies (this will likely occur for transfer students)
- Show them how to register for classes
- Review schedule builder
- Explain how each section has a unique CRN
- Give student his/her PIN and explain that it is different every semester
- Review advising website with advisee and point attention to the student section
If you are meeting for the first time with a new transfer student, ask him or her if all of the transfer classes were posted to degree works, as sometimes the student forgets to send a final transcript.
Contact Us
Contact Information
- Campus Address
- Reibman Administration Building
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3539
- Fax:
- (570) 422-3519 (Fax)
- Title of Department Leader
- Provost and Vice President Academic Affairs
- Name
- Margaret J. Ball
- E:
- provost@esu.edu