Academic Advisors
Students majoring in the undergraduate and graduate IGM programs are assigned both an academic advisor, and a faculty advisor. The professional academic advisors guide students though the curricular maze, helping them develop their academic plan by taking into consideration program requirements, pre-requisites, and course sequences and availability. They also help students by interpreting institutional policies, referring students to other resources on campus and discussing issues of concern regarding student's academic progress. Students are expected to be responsible for making their own decisions based on the information and advice their advisor offers. Frequent student-advisor contact is a proven factor in student success.
Walk-in Hours (no appointment necessary)
Monday, Tuesday, Friday:
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday, Thursday:
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
IGM Academic Advisors
The professional staff from the School of Informatics that provide advising support to IGM are as follows:
Rita Dean (undergraduate GD&D and NMID programs)
Selyna Perez (undergraduate GD&D and NMID programs)
Susan Herzberg (graduate MS GD&D program)
Faculty Advisors
In contrast, students' faculty advisors are provided as a resource for the 'big picture' questions for topics such as 'what should I take as my concentration if I want to work in field XYZ' or 'I really liked course X, where can I go deeper into that?' or 'how can I get more coursework on topic ABC?' Your faculty advisor is someone that understands your curriculum from the perspective of the overall content, as well as their own particular content speciality. Students can often learn a great deal by incorporating their faculty advisor into their support structure: sometimes this is the formally 'assigned' faculty advisor, and other times simply a faculty member that students gravitate toward given their particular sub-discipline.
IGM Academic Advising Forums
For additional information on Advising and current postings of issues and events from the IGM Academic Advisors, you may want to check the Academic Advising Announcements area of the IGM Forums. [link requires that you login to this website]
School of Informatics Advising Blog
The academic advisors within the School of Informatics host a blog at http://advisors.it.rit.edu/ which has relevant information for IGM students.
