Advising Office
- Learning Commons | 310
- 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- 570-340-6043
- advising
@marywood.edu
We Want You to Succeed
Our commitment to you is right in our name: Student Success! To demonstrate that commitment, we work with both students and faculty to provide a rewarding advising experience, ensuring that students are on track to achieve their individual academic goals and meet the University's overall academic requirements.
Advising & Retention Forms
Registrar Forms
Undergraduate Advising
Our office coordinates academic advising for undergraduate students through the following:
- Assigning advisors to incoming freshman
- Assisting students in changing their advisor
- Advising undeclared students
- Training faculty advisors
- Administering the Advising Survey
- Presenting to UNIV 100 classes about the advising process
If you have questions about the advising process, please contact us or stop by our office.
Graduate Advising Information
Each Marywood University matriculating graduate student is assigned an academic advisor whose role is to:
- Provide information and guidance in planning and completing an academic program
- Assist in the registration process
- Act as a mentor to the student
- Provide career planning and expectations
- Inform student of departmental expectations
- Monitor the academic progress of the student
- Plan for the appropriate closure experience (internship, professional contribution, thesis, etc.)
Graduate students who have not yet been formally accepted into a graduate program, or would like to take courses for enrichment, should seek academic advisement from the Office of Retention and Advising by calling (570) 340-6043.
Core Curriculum
As a result of their courses in the core curriculum, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness of and respect for the religious, spiritual, and moral dimensions of life;
- Develop a critical awareness of the whole self, as well as an understanding of the complexities of human persons in diverse historical and social contexts;
- Develop and evaluate thinking through quantitative, qualitative, and scientific reasoning; problem solving; and research;
- Respond justly and with empathy to social inequity – local, regional and global;
- Demonstrate effective communication skills, including skills in a second language at an appropriate level;
- Develop an aesthetic appreciation and critical understanding of the visual and performing arts and their cultural importance.