Completion Initiative: Intrusive Advising
Definition
The term "intrusive advising" has been used since the 1980's to describe advising that involves personal contact, student responsibility for decision making, student recognition of causes of poor academic performance, and problem-solving for the future.
Intrusive advising requires outreach activities on the part of the advisior. It is sometimes called:
- proactive advising
Related terms are:
- advising outreach
- humanized advising
- holistic advising
- Intrusive AdvisingFrom the National Academic Advising Association
- Intrusive Academic AdvisingAn outline of specific strategies for intrusive advising from Martha T. Garing, a former board member of the National Academic Advising Association.
What is Intrusive Advising?
- Instrusive Advising Among the Best Practices for Community College Student SuccessFrom Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- History & Definition of Intrusive AdvisingFrom Barton Community College
Organizations
- National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)The Global Community for Academic Advising
Intrusive Advising as a Retention Intervention
- Efficacy of Advising Outreach on Student Retention, Academic Progress & Achievement, . . . (2012)and Frequency of Advising Contacts: A Longitudinal Randomized Trial
- Efficacy of Intrusively Advising First-Year Students . . . (2008)Via Frequent Reminders for Advising Appointments
- Proactive Advising to Retain 1st Year and Transfer StudentsA presentation from Academic Impressions
Retention Interventions for At-Risk Students (including intrusive advising)
- Increasing Student Success and Retention: A Multidimensional Approach (2010)Conclusion: "A structured developmental education program that identifies, focuses on, and addresses students academic, nonacademic, and personal factors can positively affect student success and retention."
- College Prep Blueprint for Bridging/Scaffolding Incoming Freshman: Practices that Work (2010)A summary of evidence-based best practices and outcomes from DeSales University
- Characteristics of Academic Advising Contributing to . . . Minority Student Success . . . (2010)at Predominantly White Institutions
- Virtual Advising (tutorial) (2010)This tutorial provides first-year students with an introduction to college academic policies, procedures, and resources in a timely and student-friendly manner.
- Promoting Gatekeeper Course Success among Community College Students Needing Remediation: (2009)Research report for VA Community College System. A study designed to help community colleges develop strategies for improving the rate at which academically underprepared students take and pass initial college-level courses in math and Englis
- Enhancing Student Services at Lorain County Community College (2007)Early Results from the Opening Doors Program indicate that students in the program group were more likely than students in the control group to reenroll in college after one semester. They also registered for and earned more credits.
- Increasing One Year Retention Rates by Focusing on Academic Competence (2003)"The progression from intrusive advising programs to integrated and systematic learning skills instruction resulted in substantial gains in first-year retention rates for program participants."
- Student Satisfaction and Academic Advising (1999)"This study compared student satisfaction with various academic advising arrangements and determined the underlying considerations that affected their satisfaction."
- A Structured Freshman Year for At-Risk Students (1998)This monograph focuses on the first year of college and the need for structured first-year programs that help at-risk students make a successful transition to college. Includes a section on intrusive advising.
- Academic Advising Interventions to Ensure a Timely GraduationCSULB employs several interventionist advising programs to ensure that students are on track for a timely graduation. All first-year students are required to meet with advisors three times their first year.
- Dual Model of Academic Advising and Faculty Mentoring"A promising practice Brandman University uses to promote college completion and retention of non-traditional age students."
- Promising and Practical Strategies to Increase Postsecondary Success programA new approach to categorizing students based on a combination of risk of leaving and risk of poor academic students received targeted tutoring, “intrusive” advising, and engagement services.
Books
Academic advising approaches : strategies that teach students to make the most of collegeISBN: 9781118100929See the index for content on proactive advising.
Academic advising: new insights for teaching and learning in the first year by Call Number: LB 2343 A294 2007ISBN: 1889271551Section II: Comprehensive Approach to Advising
The impact of intrusive advising on academic self efficacy beliefs in first-year students in higher education by Call Number: CTL LB 2343 M54 2011ISBN: 1244726370Dissertation
"This study addressed the existing holes in the research that have been identified regarding the relationship between intrusive advising and self efficacy of first-year students."
