Office of Advising

Degree-seeking students are assigned one of our Advising Coaches until they complete 30 credit hours* and become a sophomore. They then transition to a Faculty Advisor based on their program of study.

*All Health Sciences programs, Nursing, AST Teaching, and Criminal Justice assign faculty advisors to students once they complete their learning support instead of waiting until the 30-hour mark.

Students can see their assigned advisor in JWeb’s Student Portal or in their Degree Works page.

• How to register in jWeb

• How to identify your advisor in jWeb

• Advising Coaches work with freshmen students based on their educational goals.
• Relational Advising Coach works both with their assigned students and with the college’s Peer Mentor program.
• First Steps Advisors* are students recently graduated from high school who require learning support
• Next Steps Advisors* focus on adult students returning to college to get their first degree.

*Both student populations under this advisor type are part of the TN Coaching Project, researching advising interventions for designated student populations.

Each of the above grant-based advisor types have specifically assigned caseloads of students for one academic year to complete the respective grant’s research.

Meet The Team