An Integrated Approach to Advising

OVERVIEW

Academic Support. Faculty and Peer Advising. Professional Development.

For years, resources for student advising were scattered around Grounds, which was challenging for students. UVA Advising combines career counseling and personal coaching with connections to alumni mentors and internship opportunities. This approach allows greater access to vital services and a wide range of resources to prepare students for UVA’s demanding academic environment. These resources are essential for low-income, first-generation, and transfer students.

A Shared Vision

Dathel and John Georges of New Orleans—parents of two UVA students—realized that Advising needed a home. The Dathel and John Georges Student Center, housed on the second floor of Clemons Library, is the direct result of the Georges’ shared vision with the University and its commitment to the student experience.

A Base for Success

The center provides a full spectrum of services that support students where they need it the most.

  • Study areas that serve various uses, from one-on-one consultations to larger meeting spaces for workshops and small group meetings
  • Space for representatives from many areas to hold workshops and walk-in hours, providing career counseling, internship search assistance, suggestions for undergraduate research and more
  • Expanded tutoring services offered by the Writing Center, the Math Center, and other academic support areas
  • A location that makes it easy for students to attend events and access resources
It’s important to provide advising throughout students’ college careers, to provide a place where they can figure things out, ask questions, decide their majors, or get a feel for the future.
— Dathel and John Georges

Invest in Advising

Future plans include adding programs to help students learn more about valuable opportunities and support. The center will build upon its success and fulfill its promise as the nucleus of the Advising initiative—where creative advising approaches and ever more promising student opportunities are given room to flourish.

The University remains committed to providing the critical tools for students to succeed beyond the classroom. Gifts supporting the center can range from annual operating funds to named endowments for professional positions, as well as to funding student assistants who help guide their peers through the advising process. The center also offers spaces with naming opportunities to honor leadership gifts. Please make a gift to support Advising today.

Faculty & Academic Excellence

Other Opportunities

Center for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching Excellence is key to UVA’s extraordinary culture of learning and student-faculty interaction. With services that enhance faculty and graduate teaching assistants' teaching and professional development, CTE keeps alive the magic that occurs when impassioned teachers challenge bright students in the classroom and beyond. Your support for CTE will ensure its success.

Bicentennial Professors Fund
Bicentennial Professors Fund

Gifts to the Bicentennial Professors Fund have helped recruit and retain outstanding faculty, which is one of the Honor the Future Campaign's top fundraising priorities and is critically important to the University’s future prominence.

USOAR
USOAR

Close student-faculty interaction is at the heart of USOAR, or Undergraduate Student Opportunities in Academic Research. Through USOAR, students obtain paid research experience—working 5-10 hours a week—and the chance to build strong and thoughtful relationships with faculty.