Recognized Student Organizations
Faculty Advisor/Sponsor
Advising Is An Individual Experience.
You Get Back What You Put In!
Become an advisor to a student group and you will:
• Get satisfaction of seeing and helping students learn and develop new skills
• Watch a group come together to share common interests, work toward common goals, and an understanding of differences
• Develop a personal relationship with students
• Further personal goals or interests (by choosing a group that reflects your interests)
• Take pride in sharing your knowledge with others |
What's an advisor's role?
- Assist the student organization in identifying its goals and help the officers and members clarify their areas of responsibility.
- Participate in all major organizational planning.
- Attend all meetings and all sponsored activities of the organization in order to be informed and available for assistance and direction.
- Assure organizational officers keep accurate and consistent records and that approved methods for handling organizational finances are followed.
- Observe student performance of assigned duties and stimulate effective student participation.
- Participate in all levels of planning of events being sponsored by the organization. No event will be approved by the Center for Student Involvement or Office of Student Affairs without signature of approval from the organizational sponsor.
- Be acquainted with the organizations eligibility policy, if such a policy exists, and enforce this policy. The advisor should be sensitive to academic performance of the members and officers of the organization.
- Be acquainted with Fort Hays State University’s values and standards as presented in the Student Handbook and enforce them in all organizational activities both on and off campus.
- Provide information concerning the sponsored organization when requested by either the Center for Student Involvement, Office of Student Affairs or another appropriate University official or department.
- Be available as a counselor to organization members to assist them with personal problems and decisions as well as with those related to the organization. Encourage new perspective and directions to the group and introduce new program ideas.
- Encourage that the organization’s activities justify the expenditure of student’s time, abilities, energy and dues.
...these are just a few.
You can provide guidance, insight, and perspective to students--Is this something you would like to do?
Contact the Center for Student Involvement on how you can become a better advisor or offer yourself in an advisor capacity.