Academic
Advising
Prior to entering Kalamazoo College, students are assigned
to advisors who will help them set educational goals, make
appropriate experiential choices to meet requirements and
realize their potential and reflect on the many components
that will become a distinctive, coherent and personalized
education. Students are given the responsibility to make choices
but have the opportunity to discuss those choices with an
advisor. As they move through the educational program, students
may change advisors as their needs shift or as their focus
becomes more carefully identified.
In addition to regularly scheduled advising group meetings
throughout the first year, students also meet individually
with an advisor to discuss ways of developing critical thinking
and communication skills within a broad-based liberal arts
education. Advisors encourage students to seek opportunities
for participating in a variety of creative, service and leadership
capacities as well as to begin shaping a more focused commitment
to a particular field of study.
