University Advisor Assignments

The Office of Advising and Career Services manages all processes related to advisor assignments for undergraduate students (excluding online students).

Departmental Assignment Guidelines


Departmental rules/guideline for assigning advisors by program, minor, or certificate reside in a Google document and the only individuals with access to this document are the Department Chair and Administrative Assistant. This is a view only document and maintained by the Office of Advising and Career Services.

View or Update Departmental Advisor Assignment Rules


To access your departmental rules or to request an update to your departmental rules access the Departmental Update Form. Once you select College and Department a link to your departmental rules will appear and link you to the Google Document. If you would like to request access to the document, please email oacs@eku.edu.

Assignment Errors


If you would just like to request an update to one student or a group of 10 or fewer students due to errors or recent major changes you can submit that below.

NEED FORM CREATED: https://www.eku.edu/oacs/university-advisor-assignments/

Retired/ Sabbatical/ Discontinue of Advisor Assignments


If a faculty member has recently retired or left the Faculty Advisor role and will no longer be assigned to students, email oacs@eku.edu to make a mass update to all students currently assigned to this faculty member to ensure that students are appropriately assigned. or make appropriate adjustments on the Departmental Update Form and include a note indicating that the current assignments for the faculty member should be reassigned and who they should be assigned to.

Process for adding a new Faculty Advisor


In order to add a new faculty member as an advisor for a program, the department must do the following:

  • Contact the Dean’s Office to updated the faculty banner record to reflect Faculty Advisor
  • Contact reg.dgw@eku.edu for Degree Works Training
  • Access the Departmental Update Form to indicate program and population of students the new advisor should be assigned to.

Process for Advisor Assignments


An advisor ssignment is made under two circumstance: A student is newly admitted to EKU and needs an advisor assignment OR a student has changed/added a major/minor/certificate/concentration.

Process for Newly Admitted Students
New Incoming Freshmen

  • Admitted to EKU Record Created in Banner
  • Auto Assigned to University Advising
  • Attends Orientation
  • Assigned Advisor by Major

Process for Major Change
Add/Change/Update to Major/Minor/Certificate

  • Form Submitted to Registrar’s Office
  • Record Updated by Registrar
  • Generated Record on Advisor Report
  • OACS Staff Assigns Advisor in SGAADVR