%0 Journal Article
%T Enhancing academic learning advising in globally-engaged universities ¨C A personal odyssey
%A David PANG
%J Journal of the NUS Teaching Academy
%D 2012
%I NUS Teaching Academy
%X The global mobility of students is a key contributor to demographic diversity in higher education in the 21st century, particularly in the West. In recent times, its quantitative and qualitative impact has shifted somewhat from ¡°market¡± to the ¡°well-being¡± of international students. Effectively, the need to consider academic learning advising issues relating to supporting international students is not only a compelling idea, but also a high-stake accountability issue. By incorporating the author¡¯s own experience in academic learning advising with underlying theoretical literature, this paper proposes a multi-level/phase and multiculturally-infused academic learning advising conceptual organiser which views student learning along a generic, prescriptive to developmental advising continuum. The proposed conceptual organiser is learner (advisee)-centred, holistic, and flexible. It further suggests that in a globally-engaged university, high-impact academic learning advising is multicultural. Academic learning advising that engages student differences can potentially close the ¡°troublesome space¡± as commonly exemplified in the East versus West divide.
%U http://www.nus.edu.sg/teachingacademy/jnusta/v2n1/v2n1p24_PangD.pdf