What CASA Does
CASA, the Center for Academic Support and Advising, provides a variety of services to students and faculty including:
- Choosing and changing advisors
- Course selection
- Finding chairs and members for work at all divisional levels
- What Division I, Division II, and Division III are all about
- Concerns about academic preparation and support
- Referral to other academic support services including the Writing Center, Global Education Office, Library, and SPARC
- Staying on course to meet academic goals and remain in good academic standing. Sometimes advisors and committee chairs are part of these conversations.
- Interpreting and translating Hampshire's academic structure for others
- Concerns and questions of first-year students
- Concerns and questions of Division II students
- Concerns and questions of Division III students
- Transfer student concerns such as Division I/Division II placement and timelines for graduation
- Parent concerns: telephone and in-person conversations when appropriate
- Strategies for identifying options, setting goals, managing time
- Going on leave, field study, or exchange
- Withdrawing or transferring to another institution
- Certification of academic good standing for other institutions, potential employers, and auto insurance firms
- Copies of materials submitted by a student during the admissions process other than examples of work that are returned by the admissions office
- Meetings with students whose ECheckIn has been blocked because of insufficient academic progress
- Verification of graduation for students taking the bar exam