About academic advisors

Students may be connected a maximum of four individuals that advise the student on academics, athletics, careers, finances, etc. Students, faculty and staff can see these advisors. The advisor can also be used as part of the process to restrict registration until advisor approval occurs.

You can change how the advisors are labeled in Campus Cafe. For example, your institution may want Advisor 1 to display as Academic Advisor and Advisor 2 to display as Athletic Advisor. Refer to changing the academic advisor label documentation.

Prerequisites

Set advisor labels.
Person must exist in Campus Cafe.
Configure dashboards if advisees should show on an advisor’s dashboard.

Required permissions

Module	Number	Description

Module	Number	Description
Faculty	63	Indicate person is an advisor
Student	931	Assign advisor to student
Student	1262	Assign advisors to a group of students

Indicate an individual is an advisor

Individuals who serve as advisors must be in Campus Cafe within the faculty/staff module.

Go to the advisor’s person record.
Go to Person Selected > Faculty Info.
Select Is Advisor.
Click Save.
Go to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.

Assign advisor to student

The labels may be different depending on how your institution has configured the advisor labels.

Go to the student’s person record.
Go Person Selected > Student Codes.
Under Advisors use Lookup to find and select the advisor.
Click Save.

Assign advisor to group of students

You may wish to assign a cohort of students to a specific advisor or change a cohort’s advisor. For example, perhaps Professor Smith retires, and Professor Thomas takes over their advisees.

Go to Filters > Students.
Set filters to return the students to assign a new advisor.
Select the individual students.
Click Update Advisors > For All.
Click Lookup to locate the new advisor.
Click Submit.

Knowledge Base

Assign Academic Advisor