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Advising
Academic Advising Center
At Iowa, all beginning students start with assistance from the Academic Advising Center. In fact, AAC help is available even before students enroll at Iowa. Located in the Pomerantz Center, just south of the Blank Honors Center, the AAC provides a personal advisor to each starting student.
AAC professionals guide students through general-education requirements. They counsel pre-professional students on academic and career preparation. And they help all students enter the majors that suit their individual aspirations and talents.
From that time onward, each student receives personal guidance from faculty and staff advisors in the major. Students who transfer to Iowa with thirty or more semester-hours of college credit typically arrive with majors. So their initial advising comes from their majors’ faculty and staff.
Advising from Honors also is available from the start, and it remains available throughout the student’s undergraduate work at Iowa. Focused on Honors opportunities and requirements, it complements rather than replaces advising from the Academic Advising Center. The same goes for advising from student majors, including counsel from the collegiate or departmental honors advisors. For they focus on graduation with honors in the major rather than Honors Activities, Classes, Commendations, or other resources from the University of Iowa Honors Program.