The Residence Hall Academic Advising Program is a joint effort between LSA Academic Advising and University Housing Residence Education. Each traditional residence hall has an LSA Academic Advisor and Academic Peer Advisor (APA) assigned to it. The LSA Academic Advisor, a professional position, serves as a resource to the residents and resident staff regarding academic services and programs and serves as a liaison between the hall and the LSA Academic Advising Office. The Academic Peer Advisor is a student position and member of the residence hall staff team. The APA works in conjunction with the LSA Academic Advisor to help students understand the degree requirements and the many ways in which the requirements can be met; provide information about a wide variety of program options such as the individual concentration, joint degrees, study abroad, teacher certification, and Honors; monitor student degree progress; help find solutions to various academic problems; assist in course scheduling; provide residence hall advising and support programs; and assist students in utilizing the appropriate educational, personal and career resources that exist on campus.

The LSA Advisor and APA hold regular office hours in a designated area of the hall. A full list of advisors, advising locations, and office hours for the current semester is available.

Food for Thought/Residence Hall Faculty Meal Program
Everyone says that getting to know instructors better, exchanging ideas and opinions with them, and making connections that expand a students’ coursework is a great idea. But it often seems impossible to do this when opportunities are confined to classroom time and limited office hours, times when everyone else is trying to talk to the instructor.

The question is "How to find a time and place for such an informal and interesting conversation?" The answer: "Invite your professor, graduate student instructor, lecturer or academic advisor to have a meal with you in one of the residence halls." Informal contacts like this help instructional staff understand what it's like to be an undergraduate or graduate student on the Michigan campus.

The Food for Thought/Residence Hall Faculty Meal Program is a great way for residents to get to know their instructors better in an outside-the-classroom setting. Residents can invite any member of the University's instructional staff (professors, graduate student instructors, lecturers or academic advisors) to be their guest at no cost for a meal in any residence hall.

The instructional staff member is provided with meal ticket, paid for by University Housing, Residence Education, for either breakfast, lunch or dinner (residents need to pay for their meal either through their meal plan or from a Blue Bucks account). Food for Thought Meal Tickets, are issued at Community Center of each residence hall with a dining room. Residents and the instructor need to request the Food for Thought meal ticket (specific to a time and date) together, and the instructor and student will be asked to sign the ticket with his/her name, U of M id number and the academic department of the instructor. There is no limit to the number of times any resident may bring an instructor as a guest as part of the Food for Thought Program.

We offer tips on inviting an instructor to eat lunch or dinner, what to talk about, and handling the logistics of getting together.