About Us
The Academic Advising Office facilitates the advising system, but also provides outreach and front-line academic service and guidance to any student who is:
- A new Purchase student
- A student in the Undeclared major
- Changing majors/minors or in an academic “re-direction”
- Unclear about an academic policy or degree requirement
- In academic jeopardy or difficulty — and doesn’t know what to do
We view advising as a teaching endeavor.
As with classroom teaching, advisors are here to both challenge and support students as they take ownership of their own education.
Advisors teach students to do the following:
- Value the learning process
- Gather necessary information
- Make complex decisions
- Evaluate the meaning of their course choices
- Connect what they are learning in and out of the classroom
