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Advising at Oswego

Advising at Oswego is a coordinated, student-centered, four-year advising experience that integrates academic guidance, holistic support, and career development. 

Students receive personalized guidance throughout their academic journey. Each student is assigned both a professional advisor and a faculty advisor within their major. Starting in the junior year, a career coach joins the team to help students explore career options and prepare for their future after graduation.

See below for the different types of advisors and how they can help.

Types of Advisors

Professional Advisors help with:

  • First semester schedules
  • Interpretation of academic policies/procedures
  • Connection to campus resources
  • Starfish Flag maintenance
  • Holistic needs/ care
  • Distribution of registration PINs 
  • Registration assistance/ planning
  • Course withdrawal requests/ Deviations/ overrides/ overloads 
  • AP Advisement

Faculty Advisors help with:

  • Introduction to discipline
  • Academic mentoring 
  • Major course recommendations
  • Academic/career exploration
  • Internship planning/ guidance

Career Coaches help with:

  • Explore, identify, and successfully compete for careers that match personal and professional goals
  • Resume and cover letter 
  • Jobs and Internships
  • Networking
  • Salary negotiation
  • Graduate School search

Advisement Tools

Degreeworks

Degreeworks is an advisement planning tool to help students stay on track for graduation. In addition to reports that check on your academic progress, Degreeworks allows students and advisors to see what degree requirements have been filled and what needs to be completed.

Starfish

We believe a campus community engaged with our students will lead to their success. We use the Starfish Early Alert System as a collaborative effort between instructors and advisors to identify students who are at-risk of failing and allow faculty and staff to communicate and track interventions with students.

Frequently Asked Questions

Delete or change a major/minor

To declare or request a change of minor:

  1. Fill out the online form at myOswego in the Student records link
  2. Contact the Advisement Coordinator in your new major/minor program
    Advisement Coordinator list

Change of major/minor academic requirements

  • Transfer from a college or school is normally prohibited if the student's cumulative GPA is below 2.0.
  • The undergraduate degree program of any full-time matriculated student is expected to be completed in eight marking periods.
  • A program must be completed within a maximum of 12 marking periods of full-time enrollment.
  • Full-time enrollment is defined as any marking period in which the student registers for 12 or more credit hours.
Degree requirements

All students must complete:

  • 120-126 Total Credits
  • 42 Upper Division Credits
  • 30-33 General Education Credits

More information:
General Education Credit Requirements Breakdown
General Education Approved Courses
Major and Minor Specific Requirements
SUNY-wide Approved General Education Courses

Applying for graduation

Information can be found on the Registrar's site

Contact

 

 

Advisement Center
 151 Marano Campus Center
 315-312-2387
 [email protected]