Administrative and Managerial Sciences
Advisement Coordinator: Marcia Croteau
Email: croteau@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2178
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 342
Advisors and Staff are available for advance registration. Advisor arrangements can be made in the Public Policy Building, Room 343.

Academic Advising, Office for Academic and Pre-Professional Advising
Advisement Coordinator: Ericka Thompson
Email: arc@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2729
Location: Academic Services Building, Room 102
Undeclared/Exploratory and Pre-Profession and Allied Health students without an academic major should come to the office in room 102 Academic Services to make an appointment.

Africana Studies
Advisement Coordinator: W. B. Lamouse-Smith
Email: lamouses@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2158
Location: Math/Psychology Building, Room 225
Africana Studies Department
Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.

American Studies
Advisement Coordinator: Patrice McDermott
Email: mcdermot@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2027
Location: Fine Arts Building Room 458

American Studies Department
Communications & Media Studies
Advisor: Dr. Dabrina Taylor
Email: dtaylor@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2319
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 423
Students should sign up outside individual advisors' offices.

Ancient Studies
Advisement Coordinator: Marilyn Y. Goldberg
Email: goldberg@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2106
Location: Fine Arts 454

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger
Phone: 410-455-1718
Email: mbulger@umbc.edu
Location: Biological Sciences Building Room 456
Advisement Coordinator: Philip Farabaugh
Email: farabaugh@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3018
Location: Biological Sciences Building, Room 324
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Effective Fall 2006, students declaring Bioinformatics and Computational Biology as a major must meet a set of gateway requirements in order to continue with the degree. For a detailed description of these requirements, see http://www.umbc.edu/biosci/Undergrad/ugbireq.html.
All newly declared BINF majors will be advised by Michelle Bulger until the completion of their gateway requirements can be verified.
Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger
Phone: 410-455-1718
Email: mbulger@umbc.edu
Location: Biological Sciences Building Room 456
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.

Biological Sciences
Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger
Phone: 410-455-1718
Email: mbulger@umbc.edu
Location: Biological Sciences Building, Room 456
Advisement Coordinator: Nessly Craig
Email: craig@umbc.edu
Phone: 455-2248
Location: Biological Sciences Building, Room 315
Biological Sciences students should check their UMBC email accounts for advisor assignments and further instructions.

Business Technology Administration
See Information Systems

Chemistry
Advisement Contact: Michelle Bulger
Phone: 410-455-1718
Email: mbulger@umbc.edu
Advisement Coordinator: Sandy Tabler
Email: tabler@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2491
Location:Chemistry / Meyerhoff Building, Room 100
Students should call the department office, or stop by for advisor assignment.

Computer Science & Computer Engineering
See College of Engineering and Information Technology

Dance
Advisement Coordinator: Carol Hess-Vait
Email: hessvait@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2951
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 419
Students should check the list posted on thew door of the department office (FA 467C) for the name of their advisor. Students should sign up for an advising appointment on the list posted on their adivsor's door.

Economics
Advisement Coordinator: Michael Bradley
Email: mbradley@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2170
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 334
Students will be assigned to advisors between the hours of 8:30-4:30 in Public Policy Building Room 344, 338, or 343.
Existing majors will receive name of advisor via UMBC e-mail prior to advising period. New majors should check alphabetical allocation in Department. Sign up sheets are outside advisor doors for the weeks of April 9 and April 16

Financial Economics
Financial Economics Advisement Coordinator: Scott Farrow
Email: farrow@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-5922
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 334, 338, or 343.
Existing majors will receive name of advisor via UMBC e-mail prior to advising period. New majors should check alphabetical allocation in Department. Sign up sheets are outside advisor doors for the weeks of April 9 and April 16

Education
Advisement Coordinators: Vickie Williams (elementary and secondary admissions advising)
Email: vwilli5@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2327
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 419
Pat Scully (all early childhood advising)
Email: pscull1@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2307
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 427
Barbara Bourne (ongoing elementary advising)
Email: Barbara.Bourne@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2308
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 426
Linda Olivia(ongoing secondary and K-12 program advising)
Email: oliva@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2382
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 410
An appointment book will be available at the front counter in ACIV Room 428.

Emergency Health Services
Advisement Coordinator: Dwight Polk - (Clinical Track)
Email: polk@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3782
Stephen Dean - (Management Track)
Email: sdean@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3775
Location: Academic IV Building, A Wing, Room 316
Students should sign up for appointments on the schedules posted on the advisors' office doors.

College of Engineering and Information Technology
Advising occurs in ITE 203-206 for ENGR/CMSC students who have not yet met the Gateway requirements and/or are new to the University in the following majors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering.  Sign up sheets will be posted outside the Advising Offices (ITE 205-206). All students must make an appointment.
Advising Staff:
Director of Advising: Cathy Bielawski
Email: bielawsk@umbc.edu
Academic Advisor: Bethany Spore
Email: bethany.spore@umbc.edu
Phone:410-455-3096
Admitted Chemical Engineering Majors: Sign up sheets are available outside ENG 314
Admitted Mechanical Engineering Majors: Sign up sheets available outside ENG 210.
Admitted Computer Science and Computer Engineering Majors: Students should contact their assigned faculty advisor for an appointment

English
Advisement Coordinator: Michael Fallon
Email: fallon@umbc.edu
Phone: 455-2021
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 444
Students who do not have an advisor should see Patty Bach and sign up at the front desk, room 449. Students who do not remember the name of their advisors should consult the list posted on the bulletin board outside room 449.

Erickson School
Management of Aging Services
Advising Coordinator: Kristanna Jones
Phone: 443-543-5637
Email: Kristanna.Jones@umbc.edu
Academic Advisors:
Dr. Leslie Morgan
Email: lmorgan@umbc.edu
Dr. Robin Majeski
Email: majeski@umbc.edu
Location: 5523 Research Park Drive, Suite 230, Baltimore, MD 21228
Students will be contacted to be given their advisement assignments and further instructions.
Students should contact the department to schedule appointments with their assigned advisor.

Gender and Women's Studies
Advisement Coordinator: Carole McCann
Email: mccann@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2001
Location: Academic IV, Room 439
Students who have an advisor should sign up out side the advisor's office. Students who need an advisor should call or drop by the main office.

Geography and Environmental Systems
Advisement Coordinator: Tom Rabenhorst
Email: Tom.Rabenhorst@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3845
Location: Social Science Building, Room 211J
Students being advised for the first time may request to see any member of the faculty. Students without advisors will have one designated by personnel in Room 211. Sign up sheets will be on faculty office doors during pre-registration period.

Health Administration and Policy
Advisement Coordinator: Joyce Riley
Email: riley@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2342
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 220
Students should sign up on sheets posted on the bulletin board outside the HAPP office.

History
Advising Contact: Carla Ison
Email: ison@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2312
Advisement Coordinator: James Grubb
Email: grubb@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2091
Location: Admin Building, Room 717
Students with assigned advisors should see them during office hours. Students not yet assigned should call the advising contact or check with the departmental secretary.

Honors
Advisement Coordinator: Maureen McCormick
Email: mccormic@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3720
Honors College students who have not declared majors are advised in the Honors College. Honors College students who have declared majors should first see an advisor in their major department(s) and then consult an Honors College advisor to ensure that they maintain their membership in the College. Students should contact the Honors College to make appointments.

Information Systems
Advisement Coordinators:
Tate Redding
Email: redding@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3942
Location ITE Building, Room 404B
Karen Lewis
Email: klewis@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3931
Location: ITE Building, Room 402
The IS Department assigns students alphabetically to faculty advisors based on the initial of the student's surname. The assignments and the appointment schedules are posted outside the faculty advisors' offices during advance registration. Students should sign up for appointments with their assigned advisors.

Interdisciplinary Studies
Advisement Coordinator: Carrie Sauter
Email: csauter@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2004
INDS Advisors:
Patricia La Noue
Email: lanoue@umbc.edu
Steven McAlpine
Email: mcalpine@umbc.edu
Website: http://www.umbc.edu/INDS
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 546
Students interested in the INDS major should view the website, then e-mail inds_info@umbc.edu for an appointment.
Current majors should schedule an individual appointment with their INDS advisor.

Judaic Studies
Director: Jonathan Finkelstein
Email: finkelst@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3712 or 410-455-2427
Location: Physics 329 or Math/Psychology Building Room 336
Students should call or e-mail binkelsf@umbc.edu for appointments.

Mathematics and Statistics
Advisement Coordinator: T. Armstrong
Email: tarmstro@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2235
Location: Math/Psychology Building, Room 418
Students should come to Math/Statistics Office room 410 to check on assignment to a faculty advisor. They should then make an appointment with their assigned advisor.

Modern Languages and Linguistics
Advisement Coordinator: Elaine Rusinko
Phone: 410-455-2153
Email: rusinko@umbc.edu
Location: Academic IV Building, Room 128
Students should sign up for an advising appointment on the list posted on their advisor's door. Students who do not have an advisor or do not know to whom they have been assigned for advising should call or visit the departmental office in Academic IV, room 146, x52109.

Music
Advisement Coordinator: Joyce Hubbard
Email: hubbard@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3123
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 020
Students should sign up for an advising appointment on the door of FA020.

Philosophy
Advisement Coordinator: Roye Templeton
Email: rtemplet@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2155
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 526
Students should check the list posted on the door of the department office (FA 539) for the name of their advisor.

Physics
Advisement Coordinators: Philip Rous
Email: rous@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2598
Location: Physics Building, Room 217
All newly declared Physics students (Freshman, Transfers, & new to the major) and any students without a departmental advisor should contact the department’s advisement coordinator, Philip Rous. Other Physics students should contact their individual advisor. Students can learn who their advisors are by referring to the master list posted outside room 217 or by contacting Philip Rous.

Political Science
Advisement Coordinator: Elyse Grossman
Email: elyse2@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2063
Department Director: Cheryl M. Miller
Phone: 410- 455-2568
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 357 and 311
Students assigned to advisors should sign up for appointments outside individual advisors' offices. Students without advisors should call or visit the department office for assignment to advisors. Students can learn who their advisors are by referring to the master list on the department bulletin board outside Room 357.

Psychology
Advisement Coordinator: Debra Wolff-Sanford
Email: dsanford@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2366
Location: Math/Psychology Building Room 321
All newly declared Psychology students (Freshman, Transfers, & new to the major) should meet with the department advisor, Debbie Wolff Sanford (MP 321), for their first semester. If you have already met with Ms. Wolff-Sanford, students are assigned to a faculty advisor based on the first letter of their last name. Faculty advising assignments are posted throughout the department, and sign up sheets will be posted outside each advisor’s office.

Religious Studies
Advisement Coordinator: James Grubb
Email: grubb@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2091
Location: Admin Building, Room 717
Students should call for appointments.

Social Work
Advisement Coordinator: Dr. Carolyn Tice
Email: tice@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2144
Location: Academic IV Building, Wing B, Room 322
Students with advisors should sign up outside their advisors’ office or contact them. Students without advisors should call or visit the departmental office to be assigned on advisor at Academic IV, Wing B, rm. 322.

Sociology and Anthropology
Advisement Coordinator: Janet Burgee
Email: jburgee@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3979
Location: Public Policy Building, Room 252
Day and evening students should sign up according to their advisors' appointment schedules, posted on the board adjacent to room 255.

Theatre
Advisement Coordinator: Janet Watson
Email: jwatson@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2892
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 467
Students with advisors should sign up outside their advisors' office or contact them. Students without advisors should call or visit the department of Theatre office (FA467) to be assigned an advisor.

Visual Arts
Advisement Coordinator: Melanie Berry
Email: mberry@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-2219
Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 108A
Advising assignments are posted in FA 108 and to the visual arts student listserve. Students should contact assigned advisors for appointments.

Visual and Performing Arts
(InterArts Studies)
Advisement Coordinator: Anna Rubin
Email: airubin@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3190
Location: Fine Arts Building Room 519
Students should call for appointments.