... , high-quality advising focuses on each student's specific developmental needs. High-quality advising is correlated with increases in students' self-esteem, satisfaction with college, and persistence in school. Yet national surveys reveal on most campuses, when it occurs at all, academic advising tends to be primarily clerical in character rather than developmental, focusing as it does on registration. Can today's students ... a logistical challenge, can connect more readily through email or by direct phone connections to classrooms. But advocates say that new technologies can be used to...

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