An ever-constant part of college is being able to communicate and plan with your academic advisor.

What You Need To Know: You Have To Use Your Resources.

Breanna Calamus, Assistant Director of Advising on the Statesboro Campus:

• Advises students to make advising appointments as soon as possible because waiting closer to registration time just leads to an influx in traffic. 

Cate Garcia, Assistant Director of Advising on the Statesboro Campus:

• Advises students to ask questions and be proactive. 
• Students should email their advisors, set appointments, and come to drop-in times before registration season. 

“For the positions that we have here on the Statesboro campus, we have the majority of those positions filled,” said Reggie Simpkins, the Associate Vice President for Student Success and Interim Director of Advising. 

The issue is really a high turnover of advisors. Although most students expect to keep the same advisor throughout college, that’s not realistic. “Students should look within their advising center, [and] they will always have access to an academic advisor,” said Simpkins.