New center opens for advising
Posted on: 8/14/2015; Updated on: 8/14/2015By Student editor
The Provost’s Office has announced the launch of the new University Advising Center on the Columbia campus. The University Advising Center supports the academic mission of the University of South Carolina by providing undergraduate students, academic advisers and the campus community with the resources, training, services and assessment in accordance with national best practices.
The center will absorb all services offered by Cross College Advising and Academic Coaching (ACE) formerly housed in the Student Success Center. The office is temporarily located in Close-Hipp, suite 201. Beginning mid-September, the center will permanently locate on the first floor of the Close-Hipp building directly off the main entrance.
Claire Robinson, director of the University Advising Center, opened the center to serve students as they return to campus. The staff of eight advisers will see more than 1,000 transfer and change-of-major students in the first month of operation. Robinson has trained, implemented and assessed academic advising programs over the last decade both at UofSC and nationally. She has published several articles on advising and co-authored a book on college instruction. She was named a 2014 Breakthrough Graduate Scholar and has received national recognition for her leadership in adviser and coach program implementation. Robinson has consulted at more than a dozen colleges and universities on academic advising and served at the lead QEP evaluator for three institutions seeking to enhance their advising practices.
The University Advising Center can be reached at 803-777-1222.
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