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Information for Academic Advisors

Over the last few years, several MIT Faculty Committees have issued reports in which undergraduate advising and mentoring are recommended as critical tasks that need to be valued and strengthened. In Mentoring Undergraduates at MIT, the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP) envisions a high quality mentoring system for all undergraduates that includes advising, teaching, guiding, and facilitating.

As an undergraduate advisor you are already doing all or some of these. However, you might wish to enhance your advising and mentoring skills, or better understand how to assist your undergraduates to realize their educational and personal potential.  The information in this section is meant to provide some guidelines to improve and augment your advising practices.  

The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming sponsors and maintains this site as a resource for all advisors. UAAP welcomes suggestions for making this dynamic site more useful and welcomes comments to uaap-www@mit.edu.

Information specific to Freshman Advisors can be found at First Year at MIT.

Read more in the following Institute reports:

• Report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons. (2006)
  
• Report to the Faculty on Advising and Mentoring of Undergraduates (2005)
• The Academic Guide for Undergraduates and Their Advisors