. accurate and up-to-date information about requirements, policies, and procedures;

.to be given information or a referral concerning academic issues;

. reasonable access to advisors throughout the semester;

. adequate staffing to offer advising to all new students at orientation and all early registrations;

. transfer evaluation to be completed within the first semester at UM, if all transcripts are on record;

. an individualized audit will be prepared and updated at each advising appointment, including a senior audit once the student is within two semesters of his/her expected graduation.

The Advisor can expect

. the student to recognize that the final responsibility for his/her education is his/her own;

. the student to have read the Undergraduate Catalog, regulations listed in the Schedule of Classes, departmental handbooks, and the ARHU Mini-guide;

. the student to understand no single advisor can answer everything and that there are different types of advisors and should ask questions of the appropriate advisor;

. the student to schedule an advising appointment well ahead of his/her registration appointment;

. if the student will be late or is unable to keep an appointment, he/she will notify the advisor at 301-405-2108;

. the student to prepare an academic plan, a list of items to be discussed and questions to be asked, a proposed schedule of classes, to check on Testudo for his/her registration appointment and registration blocks, and to bring all necessary forms to the appointment.