Vision, Mission, ADEI, Goals and Services

Vision

We meet you where you are and support you in becoming who you aspire to be.

Mission

Engage, support and empower students to discover their strengths, explore possibilities, achieve their goals and navigate lifelong pathways to academic and career success. 

Department Goals

  • Empower students to clarify and achieve their academic and career goals through intentional, developmental, and student-centered advising, support and resources.  
  • Support students in making informed academic decisions and navigate their educational pathways through proactive, inclusive, accessible advising, timely guidance, and intentional connections to campus resources, academic partners, and opportunities that support their success. 
  • Increase student confidence, self-awareness, and agency by helping them understand their strengths, interests, values, and goals and apply them to academic and career decision-making.  
  • Strengthen collaboration across campus to provide coordinated, holistic student support by partnering with academic departments, student services, faculty, and external organizations to address students’ academic, personal, and career-related needs. 

Primary Services

  • Academic Advising & Planning: Suppor students in understanding degree requirements, making informed academic decisions, and creating pathways toward degree completion and beyond. 
  • Health Professions Advising: Provide comprehensive advising to students exploring health professions careers, including academic planning, clinical experience/shadowing exploration, major and healthcare career exploration and support through professional school application process.  
  • Major & Career Exploration: Guide students in exploring academic options, clarifying their interests and goals, and connecting their education to future opportunities. 
  • Career Readiness & Professional Development: Help students develop the skills, experiences, and tools needed to pursue internships, employment, graduate school, health professions, and other post-graduation opportunities. 
  • Student Outreach, Support & Success: Provide proactive advising, academic support, referrals, and connections to resources that help students persist and thrive. 
  • Connections & Opportunities: Connect students with faculty, departments, campus resources, experiential learning, internships, research, employers, and other opportunities. 
  • Resources, Partnerships & Collaborations: Provide training, professional development and digital resources that support faculty and staff advisors in their work supporting students. Act as a partner in supporting holistic academic and career success for students. 
  • Career Closet: Provide students with access to professional clothing and resources to help them feel prepared and confident for interviews, internships, career fairs, and other professional opportunities. 

ADEI Statement

Academic Advising & Career Readiness supports student success by integrating access, diversity, equity, and inclusion in all areas of our work.  

  • We are committed to advancing a climate of equity and mutual respect, with particular attention to the needs of all marginalized and under-represented groups of people.   
  • We are aware of and value interconnecting identities that involve all aspects of difference, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, educational background, language, culture, national origin, religion/spirituality, age, ability, military/veteran status, and political perspective.   
  • We are situated on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples and the experiences of Indigenous students, staff, faculty, and community members are central to the environment we envision. 

Our office strives to be a space where all ways of being are respected.