SUNY Potsdam

While your adviser plays an essential role throughout your college years, ultimately the progress and results of your academic career are your responsibilities!

  Student Responsibilities:

• Understand College requirements for graduation including:
  
  
  • Specific major requirements
  • Implications of repeating a course
  • Implications of selecting S/U grading
  • Implications of Warning and Probation
  • Hours required for graduation
    
  • Distinctions among lower and upper division, liberal and non-liberal arts designations and hours required, PE hours

• Become knowledgeable about graduation requirements by attending advising workshops and by studying advising materials.

• Study all information pertinent to one's degree program in the Undergraduate Catalog and any supplemental materials provided for the major.

• Keep accurate records and update the degree progress audit sheet every semester.

• Sign up for an advising appointment each semester with the academic advisor, during the designated advising period. Keep the appointment.

• Be prepared for your advising appointment. For tips on this see Preparing for Advising.
  

• Accept full responsibility for own progress.

• Accept full responsibility for own decisions (good or bad) and progress (slow or steady).