7. (49) Students have access to effective academic, personal, and career counseling.

Not Observed      Insufficient      Moderate Use      Meets Criterion Completely

Academic Advising and Problem Support

Each student has an academic advisor and is automatically joined to their academic advisor's D2L site.

Students also have access to the Graduate Advisor who oversees the advising process.
In support of students the Graduate Advisor maintains two blogs.
SLIS21 blog for all kinds of curriculum information
http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/slis21/
Advising blog http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/wp/advising/

An advising FAQ is kept current
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/current-students/advising-overview/advising-faqs

We have a full time Student Services Coordinator who is the primary point of contact for administrative questions and procedures -
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/staff/student-services-coordinator

Career Support

SLIS has a career center liaison dedicated to SLIS. She is available to answer questions and provide career support.
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/staff/career-center-liaison-slis
She also runs a career blog for students
http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/blogs/career/
SLIS also provides:
Career development resources
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/career-development
Career development webcasts
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/career-development/career-webcasts-and-workshops
Collaborate career development workshops first Wednesday of the month series
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/career-development/career-webcasts-and-workshops/collaborate-workshops

Physical or Learning Disability

If a student has a learning disability they can register with the Disability Resource Center (DRC) which works with online students. http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/

Writing Support

SLIS provides writing tutoring support for its online students
https://slisweb.sjsu.edu/current-students/resources/writing-support
https://slisweb.sjsu.edu/current-students/resources/writing-resources/tutoring

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