While the primary focus of advising in the Office of Student Activities (OSA) is with student organizations, advisors are to work with all students to help realize their needs, passions, and strengths. To be a successful student group advisor, advisors must be responsive, visible, accessible, energetic, approachable, creative, able to welcome change and challenge the status quo, good humored, and an advocate for all students. More specifically, a student organization advisor will maximize the organizations' potential and have a vested interest in addressing the organizations needs. Below are the responsibilities and expectations of a student organization advisor.

• Encourage all students to understand their strengths, find their niche, and actively participate in student organizations and campus community.
• Work with students to responsibly initiate meetings, activities, and events that promote and celebrate their interests while being considerate of the entire campus community.
• Encourage leadership opportunities that support good practice in time management, delegation, open and honest communication, intentional involvement, recruitment, meeting management, active participation.
• Challenge students to think and act both with their head and heart.
• Ensure that programming is inclusive and safe in nature and that all student needs and interests are considered.
• Challenge students to see issues through different lenses, explore various points of view, and be respectful of alternative views.
• Promote an environment of true collaboration that elicits idea building and creates effective planning and execution of events and initiatives.
  Promote exploration of the organization's role and purpose within the campus, local, and global community that expands student worldviews, encourages responsible risk taking, and moves away from the status quo.
• Encourage students to think analytically, creatively, and critically.
• Help students to establish a legacy while maintaining traditions.
• Promote a "do no harm" community where members are to act ethically, with integrity, and follow university, local, state, and federal laws.
• Hold students accountable.
• Build relationships with student beyond the context of the student group.

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