- What is your job title?
- What does your job entail?
- How many students do you advise?
- What is a perfect outcome for when you see a student?
- What would you say are the biggest challenges in your role?
- Walk me through a typical advising meeting with a student.
- What do you do to prepare for an advising meeting?
- What are the best things about your job?
- Do you currently use a platform to manage all of your students?
- If so, do you have any positive or negative input on this platform?
- Student contacts/interactions (beyond meeting dates or grades)
- How long are your advising sessions with students?
- Do you typically feel as though your advising sessions are long enough?
- Do you feel that you get to know your students in advising sessions?
- Do you ever feel it is difficult to handle all of the different and individualistic student needs?
- Do you think there is enough technological integration to help with your advising duties?
- What type of information do you like/wish to know when going into a meeting with a student?
- Have you been an advisor elsewhere? What is different between the processes and roles? Any consistent pain points?
- Have you been an advisor in a different department?
- Would it be helpful to have a group-level summary of the information and statistics gathered from the students of the entire school along with the individual info/statistics?
- How do you learn about the personal issues/obstacles that affect a student during their studies