College of Business
Preparing for Appointments
How to make an appointment with your Academic Advisor
Every student in the College of Business is assigned an academic advisor. You can view your academic advisor in MyCWU.
To schedule an appointment, you can call the College of Business Career, Advising, and Tutoring Center (CAT Center) at 509-963-2930 or use your advisor's Bookings page (available on their Canvas page) to schedule an appointment.
Preparing for an Appointment
- When you make an appointment, please write it down in your planner or calendar. You should receive a reminder phone call the day before (or the Friday before a Monday) your appointment from our Front Desk. However, it is first and foremost your responsibility as a student to be aware of your appointment time.
- If you need to change your appointment time, or realized that you will be unable to make the appointment, please call to reschedule.
Advising Appointment Expectations
For all appointments
- Bring your student ID card or know your student ID number.
- Be prepared to have other forms of identification.
- Please arrive on time for your appointment to ensure a timely check in.
- Advisors often have back-to-back appointment, so arriving too early may result in waiting.
- Come prepared with questions or topics to discuss.
- You are expected to behave in alignment with both CWU's Student Conduct Code and the Statement of Conduct for the College of Business.
- You may need to reschedule if you arrive late because your advisor's schedule may prevent accommodations past the allotted time.
- If you are unable to attend, please call to cancel or reschedule your appointment. Doing so ahead of time allows other students to schedule that time slot.
- Please call (509) 963-2930 or contact your advisor ahead of time.
For phone or virtual appointments
- Please be in an environment that is productive for a professional conversation:
- The environment is as quiet as you can reasonably accommodate
- You are comfortable discussing your academics in the environment
- Ensure that you are comfortable with the environment you exhibit
- For video, please be dressed to the level you would be for an in-person advising appointment
- Please ensure that any people in view of the camera are dressed
- You may want to consider having headphones if unable to ensure privacy
- You should have access to a computer in which you can log into your MyCWU portal
- Advisors cannot have phone/Zoom appointment with a student when a student is driving
- This includes driving with a hands-free device
- If utilizing Zoom, ensure the name on the Zoom account reflects your full preferred name and aligns with the name on your student account
Please do not schedule an appointment during a time when you will be preoccupied by other tasks (including driving, while at work, in class, etc.). We want to ensure you have a helpful, meaningful appointment in which you can ask questions, take notes, and be able to freely discuss any issues.
If you are unable to find an open time during our business hours that works in your schedule, please let your advisor know so we can work with you to find a time that works.
Advisors have the right to end the appointment at any time if the student is not in a conducive environment or not acting in a way that allows for an appropriate and effective conversation between the advisor and the student.
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