Undeclared Students: Nudge Them toward a Decision

Authors

  • Helen Halasz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26209/mj1261424

Keywords:

advising, academic advising, adviser, advisor

Abstract

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Author Biography

Helen Halasz

Helen Mulhern Halasz is a doctoral student in the Educational Administration program at the University of South Carolina. She also served as an academic adviser for business, liberal arts and undecided students at the University of Florida and Virginia Commonwealth University. She can be reached at halasz@mailbox.sc.edu.

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QuoteWorld. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/9948

Steele, G. E. (1994). Major-changers: A special type of undecided student. In V. N. Gordon (Ed.), Issues in advising the undecided college student [Monograph No. 15]. Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for The Freshman Year Experience, University of South Carolina.

Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R. (2008). Nudge. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

University of Florida. (2010). Undergraduate Catalog 2009–10. Retrieved from http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/catalog/policies/advisingprogress.html

University of Florida Warrington College of Business Administration. (2009, November 23). The Florida Leadership Academy. Retrieved from http://warrington.ufl.edu/sb/leadership/fla

University of Maryland Office of Undergraduate Studies. (2004, October 27). Student Academic Success—Degree Completion Policy. Retrieved from http://www.ugst.umd.edu/academicsuccess.html

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Vol. 12 (2010): The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal

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