Student Advising

Faculty Advising

• All nursing students are assigned a faculty advisor to support them during their tenure as an undergraduate student.
• Many of the faculty advisors currently practice or have practiced in the health care field and are available to mentor students on various opportunities in the field of nursing.
• Undergraduate students are given their faculty advising assignments, as well as the time and location of their first advising appointment, by New Student Orientation (NSO).
• Nursing students must meet with their faculty advisor at least once per semester, prior to advance registration, in order to be removed from registration hold and permitted to register.

Office of Student Services

• The School of Nursing Office of Student Services is also available to advise students on the nursing curriculum, to help answer their questions, and to help connect them with resources on campus.
• Emily Ford is the advising contact for undergraduate students, and she serves as the primary advisor for incoming first‑year students until they receive their faculty advising assignment during NSO.
• Andrea Allmayer is the advising contact for masters and doctoral students.
• Contact Information:
  Claire M. Fagin Hall, Suite M-18
  215-898-6687
  advisor@nursing.upenn.edu

Peer Advising
(undergraduate students)

• Incoming first-year nursing students are assigned an upperclass peer advisor to help ease their transition to Penn and the School of Nursing.
• Peer advisors contact their advisees throughout the summer, participate in NSO activities with the new students, and are available throughout the academic year and beyond to answer questions and plan programs for their advisees.

Past Peer Advising Activities:

• Campus Resources for a Diverse Student Body and Peer Advisor Ice Cream Social: Peer Advisors met their advisees, took them on a tour of the many resource centers available to students, and returned to the School of Nursing for a Peer Advisor/advisee ice cream social
• Peer Advisor/advisee lunch during NSO
• Nursing 101: Peer Advisors got to know their peer advisees and showed them around the Penn campus
• Peer Advisor Pre-Registration Dinner: a chance for peer advisees and Peer Advisors to dine together and discuss spring courses
• Peer Advising Goes to Cosi: Peer Advisors had the opportunity to mingle with their peer advisees while taking them out for coffee beverages (sponsored by the School of Nursing)
• Peer Advisor/advisee Welcome Back Dessert Party early in the spring semester