Academic Advising
The Academic Advising Center is an integral part of the division of Student Success. Academic Advising is located in the Student Success Center, third floor of the Tucker Center. The Advising Center provides assistance in academic planning and the selection of majors and minors. Services provided by the Advising Center include first semester registration of all new students (freshmen and transfer), academic reporting, assignment of advisors, and academic counseling for students seeking to maintain or achieve a specific grade point average. The Academic Advising Center also provides advisement services in the absence of the primary advisor.
Upon entering Gardner-Webb University, the student is assigned an advisor and is encouraged to view the advising relationship as a partnership for success. First-year students seeking a bachelor’s degree are enrolled in a First-Year program course (UNIV 101 or UNIV 111). A traditional first-year student is one that is entering college within a one to three year span after graduating from a high school program. An advanced first-year student (i.e., early college high school) is one who has completed high school- and college-level studies concurrently. All first-year students are required to take UNIV 111/UNIV 101 regardless of AP credit or advanced first-year status in their first semester of enrollment at Gardner-Webb University. Students with more than fifteen hours of transfer work (from non-AP credit or dual enrollment credit) are not required to take UNIV 111/UNIV 101.
After an official declaration of major has been processed, the student will be assigned to a faculty advisor in the department of their chosen field of study.
Transfer students not taking the First-Year Program course will be assigned an advisor in the Academic Advising Center until the declaration process is complete. Transfer students are encouraged to officially declare a major before or during their first semester of study at Gardner-Webb University.