Learning Communities

How will learning communities help our students?

Martin

Computer Use Fee (UTB)

Why should Distance Ed. students pay computer use fee (UTB) $72?

Martin

On-Line Classes

Should more classes be placed on-line?

Martin

SAP (Satisfactory Academic Progress)

How can we as advisors, help our students overcome the SAP situation?


Martin

Early Registration

Is it beneficial for our students to register for four semesters at once, i.e. May Session, Summer I, Summer II and Fall?

Closing Comments

I have come to the end of my Reflective Journal, I have learned a great deal about consulting, one of the most important things I learned is managing the relations between the consultant and the client. The key to having a good career as a consultant is having the ability of maintaining a healthy relation between consultant and client. I learned that this relation will remain a healthy one as long as the channels of communication are open. This is a very important factor when it comes to being a good consultant. As the semester evolved I also realized that to some extent we are all consultants to some degree. Whether it’s with our children, our students, co-works etc. maybe not at the professional level but we do some consulting. If I ever pursue a career as a professional consultant, I think this class has instilled in me the basics skill needed to become a great consultant.

A Blueprint for Development

Answering the question for the discussion board for chapter 12 made me realize that I have been a consultant to a certain extent. Over the last ten years I have worked in various offices in the university level, I have worked with students that received Veterans Affairs benefits. I was also employed at the financial aid office, where I worked with students that received financial aid assistance; I have worked within the scholarship area with students that received some sort of waiver or exemption from the state of Texas. Currently I work on advising students about degree plans and classes, all the mean time I have been consulting students on the route they must take to either receive their benefits or register for classes. I guess my consulting is in a different arena compare to that of my friend Paul Olsen who is a Datetel consultant. I guess what I’m trying to say is that we all do some consulting to some degree, maybe we are not professional consultant but we still perform some consulting duties. We consult our children when it comes to school; some people consult their friends when it comes to relations hip issues (my wife). Students consult other students when it comes to picking professors, the list could go on and on, like I mentioned before, some of us do not do it at the professional level but to some degree, a lot of use are consultants.