Each ACAC adviser identifies students on their caseload who are ready to move to a department adviser. This is largely based on the amount of time the student has been advised in ACAC (3 semesters for FYS admits and 1 semester for transfer students).  

ACAC sends each academic program a list of students that will be transitioning to the department. 

Department representative (chairs, ADAs, professional advisers) assigns a new adviser within the department and removes the ACAC adviser. 

Department representative notifies ACAC when their department advisers have been assigned. 

Once every department has completed the process, ACAC advisers send a personalized email (using first-name), notifying the student that they have been assigned a new adviser and where to find the name and contact information in accesSPoint (in the My Profile tile, under Adviser Information). 

While the ACAC adviser will inform students when the transition to the department has been finalized, ACAC recommends that the academic department representatives share the names of new advisees to the assigned adviser.

Department advisers are encourage to send a welcome message to their new advisees. The message might include:

• A brief introduction of yourself
• How to schedule meetings with you
• General timeline of when you begin registration advising for the next term
• Topics, beyond registration, that you would like to discuss with them

At UW-Stevens Point, we’re proud to offer our students, faculty, staff and administrators Navigate, a collaborative student success platform designed to transform the student experience through personalized and interactive support.

Students become comfortable using Navigate while advised in the ACAC. They use this platform to set up appointments with multiple student services on campus.

ACAC advisers use Navigate to share appointment summaries after each meeting with a student. If you’d like to know what was discussed previously with your student before transitioning to the department, you can log in to Navigate and do so!

Log in to Navigate

The following resources can help you use Navigate (resources being added soon):

• How to View Appointment Summaries

Need more help with Navigate? We’re here for you. Contact navigate@uwsp.edu.

Starting Fall 2026, the general education program changed its requirements. For a few years, students may need to meet the previous general education requirements known as the General Education Program (GEP), while students starting in Fall 2026 and beyond will need to complete the CORE General Education Requirements (CGER).

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General Education Requirements – Pre-Fall 2026

General Education Program (GEP) Requirements

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General Education Requirements – Fall 2026 and forward

CORE General Education Requirements (CGER)

The Office of the Registrar provides several help documents and videos that can help you navigate and use accesSPoint.

AccesSPoint Help

While working with Academic Advisers in the ACAC, students utilize Student Planner as an electronic graduation plan individually tailored to them. Students access it within their “My Classes” tile in accesSPoint.

To learn more about Student Planner:

• Student Planner – Create a New Plan
• Student Planner – Registration Preparation
• Student Planner – Selecting a Primary Plan
• Student Planner – Tracking Progress

Faculty and staff can access their student’s Student Planner through think link:

Open Up Student Planner

You can find additional advising and course registration resources provided by the Office of the Registrar:

• Faculty and Staff Advising Resources

You can also find additional resources to use and share with students on the following ACAC web pages:

• Major and Career Exploration
• Degree Planning
• Course Registration