Advising Information for Faculty

2025 Faculty Advising Opening Meeting: Friday, Aug. 22, at 9 a.m.

2025 Title IX/Civil Rights Presentation: Friday, Aug. 22, at 1:30 p.m.

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2025 Department & Program Updates

2025 Faculty Orientation Schedule: Abridged version with faculty highlights

2025 Orientation Schedule: Comprehensive schedule, First Year Experience page

2025 Group Advising: Sunday, Aug. 24  2-3:15 p.m. Information Chart with faculty pair, Orientation Leader and meeting location.

2025 Transfer Student Academic Transition Tips: Aug. 24, 2-3:15 p.m., Chalmers 320.

Individual Advising Information

Advising Meeting Presentation Resources, 8/22/25:

Faculty Advising Presentation - Tom Hawks, Dean for Academic Advising and Support

Registrar's Presentation - Ellen Harbourt, Registrar

Collaborating to Promote Wellness - Alice Teall, Senior Director of Wellness

Center for Global Engagement - Marne Ausec, Director

Supplemental resources:

Advisor Course Selection Form

Watch the video and follow along with these instructions:

You must be logged into Banner-Personal Access Pages (and verified via Duo). On the main menu click on "Faculty and Advisors," then select "Office Hours."

Select the current term from the drop-down menu and click "Submit."In the video example, office hours are being entered for fall 2018, please be sure to use the current term.

You must select a CRN, but you will actually enter in all your office hours for all your courses one time only. Your office hours appear together without course distinction in the campus directory. Click "Submit."

Scroll down to enter your available hours and check mark the day. Use military time for the “from” and “to” times. For example, 0800 = 8 a.m., 1300 = 1 p.m., and so on. Do not use colons. Place a check mark in the box for the appropriate day. 

Enter the official start and end dates for the current term as shown below:202580 Fall 2025 08/28/2025 - 12/19/2025202610 Spring 2026 01/12/2026 - 05/08/2026

202680 Fall 2026 08/28/2026 - 12/15/2026202710 Spring 2027  01/15/2027 - 05/15/2027

Do not enter a location or a contact number as these will already appear in the campus directory. Do not copy your office hours to another class/course or check the “display” box.  Neither of these are necessary.

Finally, click "Submit." 

Thank you for keeping your office hours up-to-date in the directory for students, staff and the Kenyon community. 

Learn more about how the Office of Academic Advising assists students in writing their Kenyon story and about expectations for advisors and advisees.

View the advising syllabus.

As you work with advisees to plan their next steps, there are many factors to consider.

More about enrollment considerations.

Progress reports are academic reports that are critical in helping our students gauge when they might be in trouble (and how much trouble) during the semester, so they can reach out to you, their faculty advisors and the Advising Office, as well as any number of campus resources that might contribute to their academic success (e.g., SASS, MSSC, Writing Center). More About Progress Reports

Progress Report Form: Access in Etrieve Central.

The Progress Report form requires you to sign in. If you are off-campus, go to vpn.kenyon.edu first.

Faculty will submit progress reports for students on Conditional Enrollment at the end of the first four weeks and for students who are having academic difficulty (C- or below), excessive absence, or missing/late work.

As soon as students are placed on conditional enrollment (CE) following poor academic performance (below 2.00 term GPA) in a particular semester or for academic conduct reasons, they are apprised of their CE status, along with their faculty advisor(s), their athletic coach(es) (if applicable), and key administrators and support staff across campus (from Academic Advising to the Registrar, the Dean of Student Development, and Student Accessibility and Support Services). 

Conditional Enrollment Overview

Conditional Enrollment Requirements

Roles and Responsibilities

The Faculty Advising Award recognizes and rewards the commitment, dedication and energy that faculty devote to academic advising — formally and informally, within and outside their departments, within and outside their classrooms.

Each year, the award is given to one faculty member. To nominate an eligible faculty member, students provide a 250-word paragraph describing how the faculty member has provided guidance in any academically-related capacity (i.e., not as an advisor to student organizations), including but not limited to: first-year advising, advising prior to major declaration, major advising and advising during and after course-taking.

A call for nominations is sent out to students in mid-April and the deadline for nominations is in mid-May before the spring semester closes. A committee of faculty and administrators review the nominations over the summer and the winner is announced at Founders’ Day in October.

ADVISING AWARD WINNERS

2024: Glenn McNair, Professor of History

2023: Siobhan Fennessy, Professor of Biology; Philip and Shelia Jordan Professor of Environmental Studies

2022: John Hofferberth, Professor of Chemistry

2021: Carol Schumacher, Professor of Mathematics

2020: James Keller, Professor of Chemistry

2019: Deborah Laycock, Associate Professor of English

2018: Wendy Singer, Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History

2017: Sarah J. Heidt, Associate Professor of English

2016: Edward Schortman, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology

2015: Karen Hicks, Associate Professor of Biology

Faculty often ask for additional resources with regard to working with students in classes, supporting students academically and non-academically, and guiding students through the twists and turns of college life. As such, the Advising Office has established an advising resource library for faculty.