Maps, Paths and Personal Connection: Advising in the Honors College
One of the benefits that Honors students enjoy during their time at Auburn University is access to two academic advisors: one rooted in the college of their major and one in the Honors College.
“This is not usually the benefit that students are focused on when they apply to Honors,” said the college’s director Laura Stevens, “but it is one that they grow to value a great deal. I hear often from our alumni that the extra layer of advising was so important to their academic success and their launch into their lives after college.”
Honors alumnus Thomas Foster exemplified this perspective recently when, looking back on his college years, he stated, “The Honors advising team was easily the most helpful academic resource I had during my time at Auburn.”
In 2024, the team was named the Outstanding Advising Program in 2024 at the Provost Academic Advising Awards. Honors students have provided some corroboration of the advising team’s success through their demonstrated demand for advising appointments.
During the 2024-25 academic year, the advising team held a total of 3,056 appointments with individual students, in addition to peer advising sessions and "Schedule Studio" consultations that were folded into the Honors Freshman Experience class. This demand far exceeds the annual advising meeting that the college requires of its approximately 2,200 students. | 
