What is the difference between the Advising Center and Counseling Resources?
The Advising Center helps students plan their academic goals. This often includes planning what classes to take when, planning how to transfer to a 4-year college, or how to apply for an internship. Counseling Resources is a place where a student can find help with personal or emotional struggles/concerns/goals. Oftentimes academic goals and personal goals can be intertwined, and sometimes counselors will give academic advising in these situations. However, most of the time academic advisors have not received training to address personal or emotional issues and may refer a student with this type of difficulty to Counseling Resources. There is often confusion about which center is more helpful when a student has career concerns. An easy way to decide whether the Advising Center or Counseling Resources is a better fit for one’s career concerns is to ask this question: is my issue about what I want to do for my career, or is it about how I can get into my career? If the issue is about the
