ACC’s faculty advising program seeks to strengthen student connection to Areas of Study by offering faculty advising, learning communities, and department-specific programming with the goal of helping students understand how their major path translates into their future work and career aspirations.
Faculty Advising by Area of Study
Value Statement
The Austin Community College District supports student success. Academic and career advising is essential to help students persist and succeed, and it will be provided in a partnership between instructional faculty and student affairs.
Goals
Help students complete and transition effectively (to a job, a four-year college or university, or both).
- Encourage, support, guide, and inspire students.
- Build relationships across instruction and student affairs.
- Develop learning communities around advising, students, and program interests.
- Support engagement and connections around common intellectual or career interests.
- Provide focused support to encourage student persistence, retention, and completion.