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Academic Advisor

Employer
Loyola University Chicago
Location
Chicago, Illinois

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Administrative Jobs
Student Affairs, Academic Advising
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Duties and Responsibilities

- Care for students (juniors, seniors, and transfer students in the School of Communication) through individual academic advising sessions, imparting a working knowledge of degree requirements and opportunities for students to achieve their academic, career, and life goals.
- Assist, challenge, and support students in identifying and clarifying academic, career, and life goals and offer appropriate motivation and encouragement.
- Be a proactive and constructive participant within an advising team dedicated to student success.
- Accurately and efficiently communicates transfer credit and remaining degree requirements (Core, school-specific, and major requirements) for a timely graduation using online and off-line resources.
- Understand, convey, and implement academic policies, procedures, and protocols to students, parents, faculty, and other stakeholders, while upholding FERPA requirements and the highest ethical standards.
- Assist students in resolving administrative issues related to their academic records and assists with the various duties related to course registration issues.
- Maintain and update student records, such as meeting notes, records relating to degree progress, correspondence, and other documentation when appropriate.
- Identify, monitor, and provide guidance to students on academic probation. Make probation and dismissal recommendations.
- Refer students directly to appropriate campus and off-campus resources to support their academic success.
- Assist with initiatives on a departmental and inter-departmental level that support persistence through graduation.
- Present academic workshops on various topics, such as academic planning, transfer-student transitions, and student life in the SoC.
- Work with selected SoC academic departments and schools as assigned; program directors and administrative staff to ensure accuracy and consistency in communication of program requirements.
- Assist with the planning and implementation of advising programs and outreach including new-student orientation, academic probation advising, and academic alerts.
- Create forms and other processes to improve graduation audits and other aspects of using LOCUS to improve and streamline office procedures. 
- Provide support for international and study away programs.
- Assist in writing and sending centralized communication to the SoC community, including school-wide announcements, an advising newsletter, program promotion, etc.
- Participate in the training and mentoring of new professional staff, as necessary.
- Articulate and support the vision and the mission of the university.
- Meet regularly with prospective students and their families.
- Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to a fast-paced, changing environment where responsibilities and duties may frequently change.
- Some weekend and evening hours are required.
- Any other duties as assigned.

 

Minimum Education and/or Work Experience

Master’s degree in College Student Personnel, Counseling or related field and one to two years of related experience.

Organization

Working at Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic University and the only one located in Chicago. Shaped by our city and our Jesuit traditions, Loyola University Chicago offers students an educational environment unmatched for its diversity of thought and experience.

Loyola University Chicago comprises four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to eleven schools and colleges: Arrupe College, Quinlan School of Business, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Stritch School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Communication, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, School of Education, School of Law, School of Social Work, and Graduate School. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois.

With three campuses spread throughout the greater Chicago area, students have access to hundreds of cultural institutions as well as thousands of internships and networking opportunities with the city's Fortune 500 companies. Study-abroad programs at our Rome and Beijing Centers provide engagement with the global community and economy.

While rigorous programs of research and study are one hallmark of a Jesuit education, we're not just preparing students for a career, we're preparing them for life. We challenge our students to learn broadly, to think critically, to serve generously, to lead with integrity, to respect diversity. We come from all faiths and ethnic and economic backgrounds, with a common purpose of building a better society.

Recognizing Loyola’s excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications, and named the University a "best value" in its 2008 rankings.

Our faculty take a person-centered approach to education. They’re not just here to teach students what they know, they’re here to teach them to think critically and creatively and to reach for their own discoveries.

More facts about Loyola University Chicago:

  • Total enrollment: 15,902
  • 80+ undergraduate majors and 80+ minors
  • 140+ graduate, professional, and graduate-level certificate programs
  • More than 4,000 faculty and staff members 
  • 14:1 Undergraduate student/faculty ratio 
  • 150,000 alumni; 85,000 in Chicago 
  • One of only eight percent of all American colleges and universities to have a Phi Beta Kappa honor society chapter

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