Office of Academic Advising

Mission and values

Mission

In a college committed “to excellence in character, performance, leadership, service to others and lifelong learning” (Wofford Mission), Wofford’s advising program supports and empowers students as they define and pursue curricular and co-curricular opportunities for self-direction and growth. Our goal is to teach through collaboration as students realize their potential within a liberal arts tradition of learning.

Values

Wofford’s General Education Advising program commits to these values for the good of both advisors and advisees in the overarching goal of empowering students for “extraordinary and positive contributions to society” (Wofford Mission):

  • Liberal arts education.
  • Advising as a teaching and learning process.
  • Inclusive respect for difference.
  • Diversity of thought, practice and experience.
  • Growth mindset of advisors and students.
  • Knowledge—discovery, creation and application.
  • Shared and transferable knowledge.
  • Responsibility to partnership in mutually interdependent advising relationships.
  • Respect for student’s goals-setting, decision making and agency.
  • Individualized learning.
  • Creative collaboration.
  • Professionalism in communication and interaction.
  • Integrity and trustworthiness.

Drawing upon information from the current Wofford Faculty Handbook, the Wofford College Catalog and Academic Calendar and guidelines from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), this general education advising resource is necessary or useful for advisors. If any conflict exists between information presented here and information presented in the Wofford Catalog or any other official College publication, those publications take precedence and updates to the Moodle page will reflect Wofford College policy and practice.