Advisor

1. A member of the faculty or staff who assists students with scheduling and educational planning. [EC definition]
2. An Academic Advisor is a college employee with the specific job/role of helping students investigate degree programs and careers and can be of assistance if students experience academic difficulty. [EC definition]
3. (College Advisor) A person who confers with one or more current or potential students for the purposes of communicating general information, establishing educational goals, and determining which courses an advisee needs to take in order to meet their goals. An advisor may be a faculty member or a non-faculty person. [EC Data Architecture]