PMU Academic Advising Vision

PMU views academic advising as an important key to students’ success. At PMU, we look at academic advising as a holistic, developmental, procedural and descriptive process that goes beyond course selection and course registration to an educational activity deeply rooted in teaching and learning.

The challenge, then, becomes how to enhance academic advising in such a way that makes it integral to the educational process at PMU. Central to the vision that the PMU advocates and promotes is to operationalize academic advising in the manner that helps students in the development of comprehensive and meaningful plans that address and assess their academic potentialities and future career goals. In this regard, effective and knowledgeable advisors are those who assist students in making the best academic decisions possible.

Broadly speaking, the articulated academic advising vision builds on the university’s vision and mission, seeing the academic teaching and learning/advising process in terms of cycles, the outcome of each cycle depends on the way in which consecutive cycles are approached. Seen from this perspective, academic advising/learning: is cyclical, is a never ending process and will cause all of us to reflect on, consider and reconsider our practice. This is as it is because we tend to teach the way we advise and advise the way we teach. We are always already teaching while advising and vice versa. Both of teaching and advising, in this sense, are interrelated, interdependent and interwoven.