Advising Resources

Academic advising plays a vital role in supporting student success, from helping students navigate course selections to encouraging long-term academic and career planning. Consistent, informed advising can enhance student retention, graduation rates, and satisfaction with the university experience. This page provides tools and resources to support UW faculty, staff, and professional advisors in delivering high-quality, student-centered advising. While each college and department may have unique advising practices, these shared resources aim to promote a unified approach that ensures every UW student receives meaningful and effective guidance throughout their academic journey.

advisor meeting with a student during academic advising

National research has shown that consistent and effective advising can lead to improvements in retention, graduation and overall satisfaction with the college experience. Resources on this webpage are made available to assist UW faculty, staff and professional advisors alike in providing a uniform and consistent advising experience across campus. Obviously, there will be variations within each college and department in how they provide specific advising to their students; however, it is important to have as much uniformity as possible to ensure each student at UW has a positive advising experience. 

Each advisor develops his or her personal style for conducting appointments with students. The National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) has many resources related to advising that may be useful for faculty, staff and professional advisors to review. You can view a few selected NACADA resources in the image slider. The Advising • Career • Exploratory Studies Center (ACES) recommends developing a professional relationship with a clear understanding of the responsibilities of both student and advisor in the advising process. In the words of NACADA “I Advise…You Decide!”

Minors Matter: How Interdisciplinary Solutions Benefit Institutions and Students

This article from Academic Impressions explores how academic minors can play a strategic role in enhancing student success, career readiness, and institutional outcomes when intentionally designed and aligned with broader educational goals.

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UW Advising Manual

This advising manual serves as a comprehensive guide for University of Wyoming faculty and staff, offering policies, procedures, and best practices to support effective, consistent academic advising across campus.

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UW Advising Directory

The UW Advising Directory is a list of all UW colleges and the advising resources within that college. This is intended for students, faculty and staff alike that need to find resources across campus.

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List of all UW Majors and Minors

You can search all programs and degrees at UW using this new Programs and Majors Tool. You can also search by a career or topic and find matching programs.

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UW Grading System

Do you want to learn more about the UW grading system? You can use this catalog to learn about all aspects of the UW grading system.

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NACADA - The Global Community for Academic Advising

NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising provides professional development, networking, and resources to support academic advisors in promoting student success worldwide.

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NACADA - The Counsel for the Advancement of Standards (CAS)

This resource outlines the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) in Higher Education's guidelines for academic advising, offering a framework for quality and accountability in advising programs.

View the Advising Standards

NACADA - General Advising Concepts

This article presents NACADA’s official statement on the concept of academic advising, emphasizing its educational role in helping students develop meaningful academic, career, and personal plans.

View the General Advising Concepts

NACADA - Rocky Mountain Region 10

NACADA Region 10 connects advising professionals in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming through events, resources, and a supportive community focused on regional collaboration and development.

View Information about Region 10

GPA Calculator

This resource from the University of Southern Maine can used to calculate a students' GPA under different scenarios including repeating or not repeating courses.

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UW Training Courses

To facilitate access, usage, and overall publication of the UW Advisor Training modules we have all the information you need to get started right here! To access the Advisor Training Course follow the below instructions:

1. Use Firefox or Chrome as your browser for best results.

2. Go to WyoLearn and click on the UW Training Catalog. For best results, bookmark this page and use it going forward to access the class:

    1. Click on UW Advisor Training
    2. Click on Advisor Essentials

3. The course goes at your own pace, but takes about ten hours total to complete. There are multiple choice and short-answer knowledge checks at the end of each lesson.

4. Advisor Essentials covers the basic, day-to-day advising information needed to help most students. Topics include, but are not limited to:

FERPA | Understanding and using information in students' files | Theories and pillars of advising approaches | Making sense of degree evaluations

5. Advanced Advisor Training provides more in-depth knowledge about various student populations and more complicated processes used in advising.

6. Master Advisor Training is the capstone of the advisor training course and requires advisors to create a personal philosophy of advising.

7. Upon completion of advisor training, advisors will receive a certificate of completion and have this completion noted on their employee transcripts.

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Upcoming Events & Trainings

No upcoming events or trainings are planned at this time. When planned, all upcoming events and trainings will be listed here. Check back often as events and trainings are planned throughout the year!

Past Advising Events

You can view past advising events by expanding this accordion menu sorted by academic year.

        1. Navigating Navigate: LMS & AI Tools | April 22nd, 2025
        2. Advising Conversations | April 10th, 2025
        3. School of Computing Workshop | March 11th, 2025
        4. Navigating Navigate: Automations | February 18th, 2025
        5. Navigating Navigate: LMS & AI Tools | February 11th, 2025
        6. Mental Health Awareness | February 5th, 2025
        7. 2024 Academic Advising Conference | August 8th, 2024

 

        1. Probation/Suspension Info Session | May 9th, 2024
        2. SOAR Into Experiential Learning | April 11th, 2024
        3. Major/Minor Updates Featuring College of Business and FCSC | March 21st, 2024
        4. Advising Conversations | March 7th, 2024
        5. Minor Madness | February 28th, 2024
        6. Navigating Navigate 2.0 | February 8th, 2024
        7. Webinar: Navigate360 Refresher | February 1st, 2024
        8. Presenting the Honors Major | December 14th, 2023
        9. Fall 2023 Advising Conversations | November 9th, 2023
        10. Pre-Professional Advising | October 12th, 2023

        1. Navigating Navigate | September 14th, 2023
        2. 2023 Advising Conference | August 10th, 2023
        3. Demystifying Math | May 11th, 2023
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        4. Disability Support Services Sessions | March 16th, 2023
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        5. NACADA Regional Conference Recap | February 16th, 2023
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        6. 2023 Annual Administrators Institute Recap | February 16th, 2023
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        7. Block Tuition Info Session | February 21st, 2023
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        8. SAP Appeal Info Session | December 12th, 2022
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        9. 2022 NACADA Annual Recap | November 30th, 2022
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        10. Career Counseling Interactive Session | November 29th, 2022
        11. Advising Summit | September 22nd, 2022
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        12. Advising Social | August 11th, 2022

        1. NACADA: Building a Trauma-Informed Advising Practice for Racially & Ethnically Diverse Students | June 14th, 2022
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        2. Gatekeeping Trainings | May 18th, 2022 - June 22nd, 2022 - July 20th, 2022
        3. May Advising Conversations | May 11th, 2022
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        4. April Advising Conversations | April 13th, 2022
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        5. Appreciative Advising | April 7th, 2022
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        6. Exception Request Workshop | March 10th, 2022
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        7. March Advising Conversations | March 9th, 2022
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        8. February Advising Conversations | February 9th, 2022
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