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    Undergraduate Advising & Academic Support

    Find your advisor, plan your degree, complete common academic actions, and connect with support for undergraduate students.

    Content owner: Undergraduate Academic Affairs

    Review expectation: Review this page with Undergraduate Academic Affairs when advising assignments, academic forms, degree-planning sources, or student-support routes change.

    Change path: Send corrections, missing links, or owner updates through Request a website change.

    Find Your Advisor

    Every undergraduate student has an assigned academic advisor. Use Hokie Spa to confirm your assigned advisor, or use the AAD advising-team directory to find advisors by school, program, and year.

    Start here Meet the AAD advising team

    See current advisor names, public email addresses, locations, and the programs or student groups each person advises.

     Alternate path Find your assigned advisor

    Follow the university instructions for finding your assigned advisor in Hokie Spa and locating specialized advising services.

    Plan Your Degree

    Use the requirements for your catalog year, check your progress in DARS, and review your plan with your advisor before making course or program decisions.

    • For the 2024-2025 catalog year and later, use the University Catalog for official curriculum and program requirements.
    • Use legacy checksheets only for 2021-2023 degree requirements. Confirm your catalog year in the top right of your DARS audit.
    • DARS shows which requirements are complete or still outstanding. HokieGPS helps you plan a course sequence and share it with your advisor.

    Complete an Academic Action

    Start with your advisor when you need an academic form or a change to your schedule or program. Use the current owner page instead of a saved form link so you see the latest instructions.

    • Use the AAD academic forms list when you need authorization to take courses elsewhere or request a course withdrawal.
    • Use the Registrar’s enrollment guidance when you need to drop a course, withdraw or resign from a semester, or consider a leave of absence.
    • Check the Registrar’s current calendar and change-of-major dates before starting a time-sensitive request.

    Get Student Support

    Choose the office that matches the immediate need. If you are unsure where to begin, the Dean of Students can help identify the right next step.

    Tutoring, coaching, and study support Build academic skills or get help with a course.

    The Student Success Center offers tutoring, academic coaching, workshops, courses, and other learning support for undergraduate students.

    Personal, family, or basic-needs challenges Make a plan when life is affecting school.

    The Dean of Students helps when you do not know where to start and can connect you to resources.

    Counseling and mental-health support Connect with counseling, psychiatry, or urgent support.

    Cook Counseling Center offers individual and group therapy, psychiatry, outreach, TimelyCare, and emergency-support information.

    Disability accommodations and access Request accommodations or discuss an access barrier.

    Services for Students with Disabilities coordinates accommodations and access support for disabilities, injuries, and illnesses.