Academic Advising
The Academic Advising Center is an integral part of the division of Student Success. The Student Success Center, which houses Academic Advising, is located in the Tucker Student Center on the third floor. Academic Advising assists in academic planning and the selection of majors and minors. Services provided by Traditional Undergraduate Advising 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, all traditional undergraduate students are assigned an Academic Advisor and Student Success Coach from the Student Success Division. Students are encouraged to view the advising relationship as a partnership for success. Students may choose to submit an official declaration of major at any point. After an official declaration of a student's major has been processed, the student will be assigned to a faculty advisor in the department/school of their chosen field of study. Transfer students are encouraged to officially declare a major before or during their first semester of study at Gardner-Webb University. The Student Success Coach will remain with the student and continue the advising relationship until the student completes undergraduate work at Gardner-Webb University.
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 an individual that is entering college within a one-to-three year span after graduating from a high school program. An advanced first-year student (eg., 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/UNIV101 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/dual enrollment credit) are not required to take UNIV 111/UNIV 101.