Departmental advising is an essential part of the student experience at UW-Stevens Point. Pointers often seek out their faculty and department advisers for guidance on a variety of topics impacting student retention as a part of their advising meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Advisees are transitioned from the Academic and Career Advising Center (ACAC) to academic departments throughout the year, but primarily, this process happens over the winter and summer breaks, after grades have been posted from the previous semester. <\/p><\/div>
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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ACAC sends each academic program a list of students that will be transitioning to the department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Department representative (chairs, ADAs, professional advisers) assigns a new adviser within the department and removes the ACAC adviser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Department representative notifies ACAC when their department advisers have been assigned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Department advisers are encourage to send a welcome message to their new advisees. The message might include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At UW-Stevens Point, we\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students become comfortable using Navigate while advised in the ACAC. They use this platform to set up appointments with multiple student services on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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!<\/p>\n\n\n\nLog in to Navigate <\/i><\/a>\n\n\n\n The following resources can help you use Navigate (resources being added soon):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need more help with Navigate?<\/strong> We\u2019re here for you. Contact navigate@uwsp.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are some resources to promote successful advising conversations between students and departmental advisers at UW-Stevens Point.<\/p><\/div> 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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n General Education Requirements – Pre-Fall 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nGeneral Education Program (GEP) Requirements <\/i><\/a>\n\n\n\n General Education Requirements – Fall 2026 and forward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nCORE General Education Requirements (CGER) <\/i><\/a>\n\n\n\n The Office of the Registrar provides several help documents and videos that can help you navigate and use accesSPoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAccesSPoint Help <\/i><\/a>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To learn more about Student Planner:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Faculty and staff can access their student’s Student Planner through think link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOpen Up Student Planner <\/i><\/a>\n\n\n\n You can find additional advising and course registration resources provided by the Office of the Registrar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also find additional resources to use and share with students on the following ACAC web pages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Departmental advising is an essential part of the student experience at UW-Stevens Point. Pointers often seek out their faculty and department advisers for guidance on a variety of topics impacting student retention as a part of their advising meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":439,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1766","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1766\/revisions\/2582"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/academic-and-career-advising-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Advising Resources<\/h2>
More about the General Education Requirements – Then and Now<\/summary>
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Student Planner – Your Student’s Graduation Plan<\/summary>
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Additional Course Registration Help Resources<\/summary>
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