Advising at SDSU

If you are a newly admitted student who has not yet registered for classes, please contact Orientation, Transition and Family Engagement if you have questions or concerns.

• Phone: 619-594-1509
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: https://orientation.sdsu.edu/orientation

• New, incoming students will attend New Student Orientation FIRST before meeting with an advisor. All advising tools and discussion regarding first-year courses will begin at New Student Orientation. 
  After you have attended New Student Orientation, you may make an appointment with your Coordinated Care Advisor (for first-year students) or your Major Advisor (for transfer students.)
• New Fall Admits Registering for SDSU Summer Session
  

  
  New fall admitted students can get ahead by enrolling in summer session. Please visit the Summer Session website for New Students to become eligible to register. 

  If you have questions about attending summer school, you may contact your college directly:

  • Arts & Letters: https://cal.sdsu.edu/academics/student-success
  • Business: https://business.sdsu.edu/undergrad/advising
  • Education: https://education.sdsu.edu/oss
  • Engineering: Please email [email protected]
  • https://studentsuccess.sdsu.edu/major_advisor_directory
  • Sciences: Please email [email protected] or contact the virtual front desk, open M-F 10am - 12pm. Visit the College of Sciences Student Success Center website
  • Undeclared: Please email [email protected]

NSO will continue to support new student’s course registration and/or finalizing their fall schedule. Coordinated Care Advisors, Major Advisors, Assistant Deans and SDSU Ambassadors will support first-year and transfer students, so that when they leave NSO, they have a full course load.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

All students must submit their final official transcripts at least a week before their orientation date, but earlier is highly recommended. See the admissions “Steps to Enroll” for the transcript deadline for your admitted term.

For information: https://nspp.sdsu.edu/orientation

No. The Coordinated Care Advisor (CCA) and Major Advisor are two distinct types of advisor. Sometimes, your Major Advisor might also be your Cooridnated Care Advisor (CCA), but not usually.

• Every SDSU student has a personalized Your Success Team -- a list of advisors and other support staff -- on that list, you will see your CCA identified.
• Log in to SDSU Navigate using your SDSU ID.
• On your home screen (in the bottom right side) you will see the list -- Your Success Team. Tip: you can email them by clicking the envelope icon near their name (see image).

• Log in to SDSU Navigate using your SDSU ID.
• Click on “Make Appointments | Find Drop Ins”
• Schedule an appointment in SDSU Navigate using the “Academic Advising” service: "Coordinated Care Advising"
• Click here for a helpful guide on making an appointment with your advisor.

• Familiarize yourself with the Registrar's instructions for students wanting to change their major. 
• Log in to SDSU Navigate using your SDSU ID.
• When making appointments in SDSU Navigate to change your major, be sure to schedule your appointment using the following service: "Major Add/Change."

• Log in to SDSU Navigate using your SDSU ID.
• On your home screen (in the bottom right side) you will see “Your Success Team,” including your major advisor(s). 
• The Major Advisor Directory is an additional online resource that lists all Major Advisors on campus.

• Log in to SDSU Navigate using your SDSU ID.
• Click on “Make Appointments | Find Drop Ins”
• Schedule in SDSU Navigate using the service: "Major Advising"
• Click here for a helpful guide on making an appointment with your advisor.

SDSU Navigate Service(s): "General/Academic Advising" and sometimes "Major Advising," "Minor Advising" or "Major/Minor Exploration/Change."

College Success Centers are hubs for advising and other support, but not all colleges have them. In a center, Major, Minor, CCA, and Peer Advisors may all offer support for student enrolled in that college, and sometimes the center offers general/academic advising from Student Success Advisors. 

• College of Arts and Letters Success Center
• College of Sciences Success Center
• College of Education Success Center
• Fowler College of Business Success Center
• College of Engineering Success Center (CSSE)

SDSU Navigate Service: "General/Academic Advising"

You may see additional people listed in Your Success Team. These advisors can typically advise you about graduation and general education (GE) requirements, university policies, and programmatic requirements and policies. General/academic advisors help with:

• Course/schedule planning
• Degree Evaluation review
• General Education (GE) and university graduation requirements
• Course substitution process
• Letter of support (some)
• Academic/personal challenge (for referral)
• Peer or premajor advising

Note: General/academic advisors or Student Success Advisors cannot advise on major requirement course selection.

General/academic advisors include, but are not limited to, the following:

• EOP Counselors: EOP Counselors provide academic, career, and personal counseling as well as facilitate academic success and personal development. Please visit the EOP Counselors contact information page for more information on how to connect with your EOP Counselor.
• Special Programs Advisors (e.g. Compact Scholars, Cultural Resource Centers)
• Premajor or Peer Advisors (e.g. College of Engineering)
• Weber Honors College Advisors: The Weber Honors College program is a unique minor, comprising an interdisciplinary curriculum made up of small, discussion-based seminars and innovative teaching techniques to promote engagement in the subject area, preparing students for high-impact educational experiences. If you have elected to participate in the Weber Honors College program, you will work directly with the Weber Honors College Advisor.

SDSU Navigate Service: "Minor Advising"

A professional staff or faculty advisor who provides guidance about courses and requirements specific to your minor of record.

SDSU Navigate Service: "Assistant Dean Support"

A professional staff member who supervises Major Advisors and helps with the most complicated questions, like: 

• Academic/personal challenge
• Academic probation/disqualification
• Petitions, for example: add/drop after deadline, change to CR/NC after deadline, leave of absence, retroactive withdrawal
• Student grievances
• Engagement/leadership opportunities

College of Arts and Letters
Aileen Taylor-Grant
[email protected]  

College of Education
Dr. Patricia Lozada-Santone
[email protected] 

College of Engineering
Theresa Garcia
[email protected] 

College of Health and Human Services
Jason Ramirez
[email protected] 

College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
Lanie Lockwood
[email protected] 

College of Sciences
Estralita Martin
[email protected] 

Division of Undergraduate Studies (IS3D/Undeclared)
Michelle Lopez
[email protected] 

Fowler College of Business
Tam Lieu
[email protected] 

SDSU Navigate Service: "Career & Internships Advising"

Career & Internships Advisors in your college and/or Career Services are trained to help you explore and plan for career and internship opportunities. SDSU Career Services uses HANDSHAKE to help students and alumni connect with opportunities. This online career development management system includes:

• Thousands of Job and Internship listings
• Resume, cover letter and transcript upload, storage, and submission
• On-campus interview scheduling, workshops and employer information sessions
• Scheduling one-on-one appointments with SDSU Career Counselors
• Registering for SDSU Career Fairs

Preprofessional Advisors: Preprofessional advisors are available for students pursuing a preprofessional career (pre-medical, pre-law, etc.) and planning to attend professional schools. SDSU provides pre-professional advising for the following programs:

Pre-Health Advising: The Health Professions Advising Office offers information about health professions through individual and group advising.

• Predental
• Premedical
• Preoptometry
• Prepharmacy
• Prepharmacy
• Prephysician Assistant
• Prepodiatric Medicine
• Preveterinary
   

• Prelaw

Pre-Social Work Advising

• Presocial Work

Pre-Speech-Language Pathology Advising

• Pre-Speech-Language Pathology

The evaluators in the Office of the Registrar provide support for complex student advising scenarios including: 

• Graduation requirements
• Transfer credit 
• Guidance and direction on how and when to apply to graduate
• Readmission to the University

Students may be referred to an evaluator by their advisor.

Graduate Program Advisors are professional and faculty advisors located in the colleges. For more information about graduate student support please visit the webpage for current graduate students. A list of current Graduate Program Advisors and their contact information is also available on the College of Graduate Studies website.

*Please note that SDSU Navigate is for undergraduate students only. Graduate students can work directly with their program coordinators and advisors.

International Student Advisors work in the International Student Center (ISC), part of the International Affairs Complex at SDSU. These advisors support the success of international students study at SDSU. In addition to general advising, these advisors offer support to students in issues specific to international students -- immigration policies, visas, living in the United States, and more.

SDSU Navigate Service: "Study Abroad Advising"

Study Abroad Advisors may be associated with your college and/or the Global Education Office, and are trained to help you explore and plan global education experiences. If your major requires an international experience or study abroad requirement to graduate, or if you have goals to study abroad to participate in high impact experiences, you can connect with these advisors to begin the process of exploring and plan your global education options. 

Study Abroad Advisors work with the Evaluations Office to help students understand how studying abroad will impact their transfer credit and progress toward graduation.

The division of Student Affairs and Campus Diversity offers student support services to support student health and well-being, students with varying abilities,  those enrolled in special programs, or students seeking personal and career counseling. 

Below is a list of additional support services to promote and support student academic success.