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		<title>Major Clarification for Major Confusion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic advisors required, encouraged and possibly underused By Eric Norman &#38; Jeff Kiesel It is common for students starting college to get confused about what classes to take, what major to declare, how to declare a major and how to choose an advisor. Westminster offers resources to help students battle this confusion and have a successful college experience. Students are required to find an academic advisor who can serve as a guiding light through Westminster&#8217;s academic terrain. The START Center along with the Career Resource Center are available to help guide students down the best path. It is important and useful for students to regularly meet with advisors once one is chosen. Any questions students have about the school can be answered easiest and fastest in person with an advisor. Emails can go unnoticed or take long for a reply and phone conversations are not as efficient as the face-to-face meetings. “I encourage students to come and talk to me individually, one on one, which is where the magic happens,” said James Hedges, assistant professor of speech communication and director and advisor of the arts administration program. “We can formulate a plan as far as how they are going to move through their major and when they are going to take different classes. That is where they can get some direction.” Many incoming students become confused when starting school, and go into the START Center with some ideas of what they would like to pursue. The START center will take that information and make that student &#8220;active&#8221; in the system. Meaning that the student can print degree audit reports. Active and declaring, however are completely different terms with different functions.  Declaring to meet, meeting to declare  A common mistake for newly accepted students is thinking that once they talk to a representative from the START center, they are on a straight road with no stops to graduation. The truth is they will be on their way only once they declare a major. They will be further down the road after picking an academic advisor. Freshmen are often confused or do not know about this process. Many times they think they have declared a major, until their junior year, when a piece of mail arrives stating they need to declare soon or a hold will be placed on their account locking them out of access to grades and registration.  Sean Kennedy is a freshman who faced confusion about the major declaration and advisor selection process. He thought he declared a business major and science minor, but he did not have an advisor. He stated his major and minor intentions upon his acceptance to Westminster, rather than properly declaring.  “I put what I wanted to major in on a form I was filling out for the school after I got accepted,” Kennedy said. “I thought that was how I declared it, and when I signed up for classes this year I thought I was set.”  Jake Doan, another freshman who has not...]]></description>
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		<title>Students Speak Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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