Since PMU adopts a constructivist, student-centered instructional vision, academic advisors are expected to integrate a descriptive, procedural and developmental model of academic advising. The instructional model of the PMU centralizes a bottom-up and descriptive academic advising model in which the advisor acts as a guide and a facilitator who assists his/her advisees in making academic decisions. Viewed as such, the academic advising process would be a learning experience in which the advisor models the process of decision making (See Figure 3).

A Bottom-up Academic Advising Model

Figure 3