Current+issues+in+academic+advising?

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 * //Student Services Professional (SSP) plays a vital role in shaping the academic, professional, and personal growth of students. Technology is changing the manner in which we interact and communicate with each other. The World Wide Web enables people connect to exchange information; hence, in today’s high speed technological world of technology savvy students, for traditional institutions of higher education to remain competitive with solely online institutions, it is important that traditional institutions understand the impact of technologies such as the world wide web, e-mail, etc., have on academic advising and incorporate these various mediums of information technology of which will benefit student and faculty/staff alike. Through using technology (e.g. e-mails, listserv, chat rooms, forums, internet based site, etc.), staff can communicate and/or provide advising to a larger quantity of students at a time. With advancements in software and web-based programming, the technology tools available to enhance advising are plentiful, and thus, it is important that SSP appreciate and utilize technology in advising as well as in curriculum development.//**=====

**How do we meet the needs of various culture styles including Individualism and Collectivism ?**
===//In either curriculum development or advising, it is important to incorporate various formats that will foster academic, professional, and personal growth of all students. To solely devise activities or advising sessions that are either all group or all individual based may not yield the growth one aspires for students to obtain. Therefore, it is important to balance the two so that students will be given the opportunity to gain the most of an activity. For example, by creating this balance of individual vs. group, students can gain://===

//Students will be given the opportunity to gain the most of an activity. For example, by creating this balance of individual vs. group, students can gain://

 * (M. Xiong, personal communication, November 2, 2009)**

//2.// //Fully express oneself or one’s opinion openly// //3.// //Understand and learn about things that one can be more productive in when done alone//** || **//Collective// //1.// //Learn and understand group processes and how it fosters one’s growth// //2.// //Learn and/or enhance leadership skills// //3.// //Learn and/or enhance active listening and communication skills// //4.// //Understand and learn about things that one can be more productive in when done in a group//** ||
 * **//Individual//**
 * //1.// //Self-awareness//