Bridging the Gap: Integrating Academic and Career Advising to Support Student Success

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate academic advisors’ attitudes toward integrating career advising during academic advising sessions. Through interviews, observation, and document analysis, the researcher examined four advisors’ career advising practices and challenges they face in the advisements. The findings provide an analysis of advisors’ decision-making process of adding career advising to traditional academic advising. Although some universities have taken steps to promote the idea of integrating career services and academic advising, the research finding highlights five major challenges practitioners face in the process of integrating career advising into academic advising: the lack of career advising tools, the lack of data sharing system between academic advisors and career counselors, students’ indifference about career exploration and hesitation to try new tools, missing training of career advising for academic advisors, and finally, the high student-advisor ratio in reality. Notably, advisors on the administrative level have more autonomy for the integration and are more likely to practice the implementation.

Editor

Ourania Katsara, Krishna Bista

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003652182

Publisher

Routledge

City

New York

ISBN

9781003652182

Publication Information

Advancing Global Competencies in Education: Theory and Practice

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