Degree Audit Recording System

Students and advisers use the Degree Audit Reporting System in planning students' academic careers. DARS is a sophisticated enhancement to the Integrated Student Information System which shows students' progress toward their degrees, enables them to explore academic alternatives, and gives detailed and accurate information.

ACADEMIC ADVISING

Academic advisers give students timely information about program requirements and University policies and procedures. Advisers assist in selecting courses and programs of study in accordance with students' interests, abilities, academic progress, and goals. An adviser may be able to aid a student in the initial exploration of long-range occupational and professional plans, helping to synthesize academic pursuits with lifetime goals and vocational aspirations. The adviser not only guides the student in the selection of required courses but also in choosing from the large number of elective courses those which best fit into the major. Advisers aid students in the use of all of the departmental and support services of the institution.

Academic advisers attempt to avoid errors when advising students about their program requirements, but schools and colleges cannot assume liability for errors in advising. Therefore, students must assume primary responsibility for knowing the requirements for their degree and for acquiring current information about their academic status.

Each school, college, and campus of the University offers a full component of academic advising for students. For locations and specific information, students should contact the office of the Dean of the College in which they are enrolled, or consult the list below. For many academic actions, the approval of an academic adviser or of the student's dean's office is required.

FACULTY

Temple University faculty members keep regular office hours, apart from class meeting times, when they are available to meet by appointment with students. Many instructors notify classes of their office hours at the beginning of each semester. Departmental offices also may be consulted for instructors' office hours.

DEANS' OFFICES

Each of Temple's undergraduate schools and colleges has a member of its Dean's staff whose responsibilities include those relating to students' academic concerns. These individuals know the University and its resources. They are familiar with the academic programs within their units and can respond to many of their students' needs. For those persons' names, see the Faculty/Administration listings at the end of each school and college's material in the next section of this Bulletin.

ADVISING CENTERS

Academic Resource Center

• Main - Curtis Hall, Room 113 (215) 204-2500
  

Allied Health Professions, College of

• Communication Sciences - 110 Weiss Hall (Main) (215) 204-8402
• Health Information Management - Jones Hall (HSC) (215) 707-4811
• Nursing - Jones Hall (HSC) (215) 707-4686
• Occupational Therapy - Jones Hall (HSC) (215) 707-4813

Ambler
Meetinghouse Road off Butler Pike, 109 West Hall, Third Floor (215) 283-1237

Business and Management, Fox School of

• Main - Barton Hall, Room A306 (215) 204-2890
• Ambler - 109 West Hall, (215) 283-1237