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Academic Advisor Reviews
What is it like working as an Academic Advisor?
August 2020
GSU has opportunity, if the work doesn't drown you first.
Academic Advisor in Lithonia:
Pros: Meeting with the students
Cons: The COVID-19 effects.
August 2020
Very Stressful.
Academic Advisor in Virginia Beach:
Pros: Great educational benefits and the people I work with
Cons: Academic advising has been restructured into a tightly run, disorganized corporate call center
June 2020
Underpaid.
Academic Advisor in College Station:
Pros: Working in a positive environment.
Cons: Leadership and students create a negative appreciation for advisors.
March 2020
Advising and Mentoring.
Academic Advisor in St. Charles:
Pros: Working with students
Cons: There are a lot of processes that could be automated and that would free up time to be spent interacting more with students.
March 2020
Advising and mentoring.
Academic Advisor in St. Charles:
Pros: Working with students.
Cons: Managing such a large number of advisers without many automated procedures.
November 2019
Academic Advisor in Peoria:
Pay stinks for non-faculty.
Lots of wonderful coworkers.
Culture is a false hierarchy and petty.
Top heavy upper mgmt makes it a financial disaster.
Univ. Keeps paying exhorbitant fees to consultants to do work that overpaide upper mgmt should be able to do.
August 2019
Awesome career, terrible direct supervisor.
Academic Advisor in Muncie:
Pros: Helping others plan there future and helping them manifest their goals.
Cons: My direct supervisor.
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