Our values and advising framework

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Advising pillars

The following pillars represent the core principles that define academic advising service at Brock University. Through these guidelines, academic advisors have identified the shared values, standards, and outcomes that guide our collective practices as facilitators of the student experience.

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Inclusive

Inviting, empowering, and accessible.

As often a first point of contact on campus, we promote an inviting, empowering, and accessible academic advising environment, where students feel a sense of belonging and connectedness throughout their academic journey.

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Knowledgeable

Helping you navigate your academic journey.

We coach students on how to navigate academic tools, program requirements, institutional policies and campus-wide resources. Our goal is for students to leave an academic advising session feeling more informed than when they arrived.

3 people together

Trusted

Relationships through quality and accuracy.

Through our quality and accurate service, we aim to build positive rapport and trusting relationships with students to ensure they feel confident about their academic journey, decisions and long-term success.

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Holistic

Coaching through a lens of curiosity and reflection.

We approach student conversations and coaching through a lens of curiosity and reflection, where students are encouraged to ask themselves questions related to short- and long-term academic, professional, and personal goals.

Two hands together

Inclusive

Inviting, empowering, and accessible.

As often a first point of contact on campus, we promote an inviting, empowering, and accessible academic advising environment, where students feel a sense of belonging and connectedness throughout their academic journey.

An outline of a human head showing a stylized brain

Knowledgeable

Helping you navigate your academic journey.

We coach students on how to navigate academic tools, program requirements, institutional policies and campus-wide resources. Our goal is for students to leave an academic advising session feeling more informed than when they arrived.

3 people together

Trusted

Relationships through quality and accuracy.

Through our quality and accurate service, we aim to build positive rapport and trusting relationships with students to ensure they feel confident about their academic journey, decisions and long-term success.

An arrow pointing at the centre of a target

Holistic

Coaching through a lens of curiosity and reflection.

We approach student conversations and coaching through a lens of curiosity and reflection, where students are encouraged to ask themselves questions related to short- and long-term academic, professional, and personal goals.

University of students and advisors at Brock University