Default Campus Advisors

You can use the Default Campus Advisors page to specify a staff member to be the default advisor in each department of your institution. This will ensure that students get the appropriate advisors automatically assigned during the enrollment process.

When a student is enrolled, the default advisors are listed in their lists of advisors. (Select the Students tile > select the name in the Students list > expand Contact Manager > select the Advisors tile.)

Prerequisites

To view advisors, you must have Contact Manager - Configuration - View authorization.

To add or edit advisors, you must have Contact Manager - Configuration - Manage authorization.

Your institution must also have:

• Created the advisor groups

• Assigned staff members to the advisor groups

Access Method

Select the Configuration tile > expand Contact Manager > select the Default Campus Advisors.

Procedure to Add or Edit Items

You can select a maximum of one advisor from each staff group.

1. Select the Campus The campus or campuses to which a person or item is assigned. It is filtered to display the campuses to which you have access. In some cases, it is also used to filter a list to only those items for the campus. In some lists, you can select more than one campus or select All. In lists that display columns, if the column contains more than one campus, you cannot sort or filter on that column..

2. Under Standard Advisors, specify or change the following values.

Academic Advisor First and then last name of the Academic Advisor for the student. Career Services Advisor First and then last of the Career Services Advisor for the student. By default the list is sorted by first name. Financial Aid Advisor The last and first name of the Financial Aid Advisor. Your institution can configure Anthology Student so that a Financial Aid Advisor is selected during enrollment. To edit this field, you must be in a staff group that is allowed to edit advisors for Contact Manager. The column for Financial Aid Advisor cannot be blank if Financial Aid Automation is switched on for the campus.

International Advisor The advisor assigned to the international student. This value is enabled only if the student is enrolled in a program version. Student Accounts Advisor The first and then last name of the Student Accounts Advisor for the student. The student must be enrolled in a program version to have a Student Accounts Advisor.

3. Under Other Advisors, if you want to: 

   • Change the values for an existing record, select the record for the advisor and change the values

   • Add an advisor, select the Add button and specify the values

     Advisor Name of the student advisor.

     Staff Group Group containing staff members in an institution. Typically, the groups are based on departments and job functions. Administrators can use staff groups to assign or revoke access privileges to all the members in the staff group.

   Anthology Student displays the values in the Added By The name of the staff member who added the person or item. and Date Added The date when the item or person was added or the status change was entered. columns.

4. If you need to remove an existing advisor from the list, select the record for the advisor and select the Remove button.

5. Select Save to save the changes.