Resources for Advisors
Find resources at U-M and professional associations to help you elevate your advising impact. Explore tools, policies, and professional development opportunities to support students with confidence.
Shared Advisor Toolkit
Advisors across U-M schools and colleges develop valuable tools, templates, and resources to support their students. The Shared Advising Toolkit brings these resources together in one place, creating opportunities for advisors to share ideas, learn from one another, and adapt existing resources to fit their own advising needs.
Help Us Build the Toolkit: We’re just getting started and are actively collecting resources from advising units across campus! Have a tool, template, or resource you’d like to share? Complete the Advisor Toolkit Submission Form to contribute to this growing collection and help other advisors learn from your work.
Resources Coming Soon! Complete the Advisor Toolkit Submission Form to contribute to this growing collection and help other advisors learn from your work.
1) Planning for Students: Tools for course selection, registration, semester planning, degree progress, and graduation planning.
2) Planning for Advisors: workflows, scheduling, documentation, staffing
Examples: 4 year plans, sample study templates, Ways to use registration tools like Atlas
Resources Coming Soon! Complete the Advisor Toolkit Submission Form to contribute to this growing collection and help other advisors learn from your work.
Resources for advising conversations, appointments, goal setting, student reflection, and follow-up.
Example: Appointment Checklists, Reflection Guides, Advising theories or frameworks, meeting templates and resources for goal setting, follow up emails or advising note templates.
Resources Coming Soon! Complete the Advisor Toolkit Submission Form to contribute to this growing collection and help other advisors learn from your work.
Resources for drop-ins, group advising, workshops, themed advising, virtual advising, triage, and other advising models. Resources for peer advisor recruitment, onboarding, training, supervision, role expectations, and evaluation.
Resources Coming Soon! Complete the Advisor Toolkit Submission Form to contribute to this growing collection and help other advisors learn from your work.
Tools for identifying student needs, navigating campus resources, making referrals, proactive outreach, and supporting students through challenges.
Example: Offices you connect students with often and why (DoS, CAPS, CEW+, etc), obscure funding opportunities or lesser known resources, Newsletters, Semester Check in Templates/Reminders
Resources Coming Soon! Complete the Advisor Toolkit Submission Form to contribute to this growing collection and help other advisors learn from your work.
Tools for collecting feedback, assessing advising services, evaluating programs, and improving practices.
Example: Google forms, processes, post appointment surveys