K-State History
Including the Colleges of Technology & Aviation and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University currently has this many academic colleges.
What is nine?
NACADA is divided into 10 geographical regions; NACADA's executive office and Kansas State University are housed in this numbered region.
What is Region 7?
This legal guideline, related to student education records, governs how advisors must handle and protect student privacy and confidentiality in their practice, including advising notes.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?
This unusual skill or hobby always surprises your students.
What is [a funny or unique skill]?
This center, located in Holton Hall and Hale Library, provides free peer tutoring and academic coaching for K-State students.
What is the Academic Achievement Center?
This black Labrador, who appeared at K-State football and baseball games from 1906 to 1909, holds the title of the university's first recorded live mascot.
Who is Boscoe?
Understanding the historical and philosophical foundations of academic advising is the focus of this competency domain.
What is the conceptual domain?
The official name of the advising tool which produces a digital report showing the remaining requirements for a degree.
What is DARS (degree audit reporting system)?
The song that always gets you energized during a long advising day.
What is __________?
This resource, advised by peer counselors, offers free, confidential financial advice on topics like budgeting, credit, and student loan management.
What is Powercat Financial?
This "Castle"-like building, which housed the Music Department and KSDB radio, was gutted by an arson fire on Friday, December 13, 1968.
What is Nichols Hall?
This domain emphasizes competencies related to building rapport, communicating effectively, and creating inclusive advising environments.
What is the relational domain?
Advisors and faculty use this official form to refer students who are exhibiting concerning behaviors, such as significant academic or personal distress, to university support services.
What is a Student of Concern Report?
The best piece of advice you ever received as a student (or advisor) was this.
What is __________?
This office helps with crisis response, provides campus and community resource referrals, and assists with problem-solving for students in distress.
What is the Office of Student Support and Accountability?
This is the official, technical color of Kansas State University, adopted in 1896.
What is Royal Purple?
Knowing institutional policies and procedures, as well as campus and community resources, falls under this competency domain.
What is the informational domain?
K-State students use this EAB platform to schedule advising appointments, find campus resources, and view their personalized academic milestones.
What is Navigate?
If you had one superpower to make advising easier, it would be this.
What is _________?
The Office of Student Life coordinates this non-academic resource, which provides a structured process for students to report incidents of bias, discrimination, harassment, or microaggressions experienced on campus.
What is the Campus Advocacy and Response to Experience (CARE) office?