Toward a Theory of Advising

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  • Marc Lowenstein

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26209/mj1661268

Keywords:

advising, theory

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Author Biography

Marc Lowenstein

Marc Lowenstein, Ph.D., recently retired from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, where he served as the Associate Provost for Personnel, Programs and Policy. He is grateful to colleagues Sarah Champlin-Scharff, Peter Hagen, Hilleary Himes, and Janet Schulenberg, who participated with him in a 2013 NACADA webinar and subsequent conference presentation and provided helpful comments about his ideas on theories of advising. Dr. Lowenstein can be reached at lowenstm@comcast.net.

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