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Academic advising functions will move from Pathways into Workday Student, an intentional design decision to better serve students and create a more streamlined advising experience. Below, we’ve described which roles and processes will operate in the new system. 

Academic advising by role in Workday

Academic coordinators will:

• Be able to see profiles for majors within your department. 

• Have access to academic records for all majors and minors 

• Can set appointment availability so that any student can self-schedule a meeting

Academic advisors will: 

• Have access to academic records for their advisees (whether undeclared or declared into a major)

• Be able to set up advising appointments 

• Can clear advisees for registration

Department Chairs will: 

• Have access to academic record for all majors and minors

• Can set appointment availability so that any student can self-schedule a meeting

• Approve program of study (major and, where required, minor) declarations/additions

• Grant course permissions for major/minor and appropriate college requirements

Improvements and changes

Moving academic advising functions to Workday Student will create a more efficient and user-friendly experience, such as: .  

• Workday allows advisors to leave notes for a student during and after an advising appointment to document conversations or decisions made with a student.

• Advisors will be able to view a student’s full academic profile and case file all in Workday, eliminating the need to toggle between multiple systems.

• Appointment scheduling will now integrate directly with Google calendar.

• Processes that currently happen on paper will move into Workday for a more streamlined, digital process.