What You Can Expect From Your Academic Advisor

To provide up-to-date and accurate information.
To understand and respect your legal right to the privacy of your academic records, and to discuss confidential information about you only with appropriate campus staff and only in service of your best interests.
To understand the curriculum, graduation requirements, and institutional policies.
To help you plan a course of study for each semester and for the long-term.
To neither grant nor deny approval for academic actions but assist you with the process.
To refer you to campus resources as your needs and goals are identified. Examples of resources include the Counseling Center, Learning Resource Center, Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Development, Office of Financial Aid and other offices at MICA, along with faculty, staff, and other students.
To seek to understand the particular concerns that affect your academic career, to review your options, and to arrive at possible resolutions.
To assist you in building an educational experience that is congruent with your life and career goals.
To help you take active and ultimate responsibility for your academic career.

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