Advising for Student Success | Academic Advising

Student Success Coordinators (SSCs) provide student-centered support to empower all learners to be self-advocates and to reach their goals. SSCs are a consistent presence at the center of collaborative relationships that facilitate communication and build bridges across campus in order to foster our students' academic, career, and personal success.

Advising is coordinated by Student Success Coordinators (SSC), each of whom advise for specific majors. SSCs help connect students with their major advisors, explain how to select classes, explain and lift registration holds, orient and register new students, and as well as connect students to additional SOU resources.

Raider Ready Advising and Registration Information

New Student Next Steps
Raider Ready Advising and Registration Session Dates and Details

New Student Next Steps

1. Complete your enrollment deposit with admissions. This step initiates your invitation to your virtual new student advising and registration session.

2. Check your SOU email for your Raider Ready Advising and Registration session invitation. This email will come from your student success coordinator (see invitation process on the dates and details tab above), and will have more information and directions on next steps to set you up for a successful registration experience. Click on the scheduling link in that email to sign up for your new student advising and registration session. All of these sessions will be vitual over zoom to prioritize accessibility for all new students.

3. Complete your Covid Vaccine Form. This video shows you how to do this. Please email the Student Health and Wellness Center at shwcfeedback@sou.edu with questions.

4. Complete the Online Orientation as it will prepare you for your Raider Ready Advising and Registration session, and answer some questions about financial aid, billing, housing, student life, and more. We also encourage you to check out the new student orientation resources for more information and support with your transition to SOU.

5. Sign up for a Raider Ready Campus Connection Event

Summer/Fall Term New Students: Raider Ready campus connection events will happen throughout the summer. See dates here.

Raider Ready Advising and Registration Session Dates and Details

Raider Ready Advising and Registration Invitation Process:

Student Success Coordinators receive a list of new students who have completed their enrollment deposit weekly starting about the middle of the term prior to your start term (see dates below).

New students show up on that list 24 hours after they complete their enrollment deposit with admissions.

SSCs then send out an invite to sign up for a Raider Ready Advising and Registration session to the students on the list through their SOU email. This process also happens weekly. New students should receive their invite in their SOU email within 10-14 days of submitting their enrollment deposit.

If you have not yet received your invite and it is both after the dates below and 2 weeks past your enrollment deposit submission, please make sure you've completed the steps on the Next Steps tab above, and then reach out to your SSC via email. See their contact information and which majors they support at the bottom of this page.

Raider Ready Advising and Registration Invitations are sent to your SOU email on a weekly basis starting on the following dates depending on your start term:

Spring Term 2022 - Feb 1, 2022
Summer Term 2022 - March 1, 2022
Fall Term 2022 - April 1, 2022
Winter Term 2023 - Nov 1, 2022

Raider Ready Advising and Registration Sessions Start Dates:

No matter your credit total, all new students are granted access to registration during their Raider Ready Advising and Registration session which is hosted by your student success coordinator on or after the following dates, depending on your start term:

Spring Term 2022 - Monday, Feb 14th
Summer Term 2022 - Monday, March 7th
Fall Term 2022 - Monday, June 13th

Current Students

All current students can find their assigned advisors in DegreeWorks or their student profile on InsideSOU. Directions to find your assigned advisors are here.

All students can connect with their student success coordinator for advising support based on their major - see below.
First Year students in University Seminar can connect with their USEM advisor for advising support.
Students with assigned major faculty advisor(s) can connect with them for advising support.
Students in Trio/Success at Southern can connect with their assigned Trio advisors for advising support.

Current student priority registration dates