Advising

In Speech and Hearing Science at Illinois, your advisor is here to help you with your course schedule, registration, degree progress, tutoring and career information. We want to partner with you to create the best path for you to reach your goals and be prepared for your next step after graduation, whether it is a career or graduate school.

Contact Your Advisor

Cathy Warnes
Speech and Hearing Science Building
901 S. Sixth St. Champaign, IL
Room 221
217-333-8290
cwarn@illinois.edu

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Contact Your Adviser

Graduate students are assigned an academic advisor when admitted to the program. Students are free to change advisors at any time.

For program advisement, contact:
Andrea Paceley, Office Manager
Dr. Brian Monson, Director of Graduate Studies
SHS-grad-admissions@ahs.illinois.edu
901 South Sixth Street, Room 103
217-333-2230

At the time of admission, a faculty mentor and a temporary advising committee made up of two additional SHS faculty members will be assigned based on the student’s area(s) of interest and faculty availability. The mentor and advising committee will be named in the student’s admission letter. Students will meet with their advising committee before or early in the first semester of their program and should have at least one full committee meeting during the first semester. In consultation with the faculty mentor, each student will identify faculty willing to serve on a permanent advising committee. The permanent advising committee should be formed by the end of the first academic year in the Ph.D. program and reported to the DGS.

The advising committee is responsible for working with the student to identify strengths and deficiencies in students’ background, to help develop a written plan of graduate study that is academically rigorous and addresses the student’s interests and goals and to monitor the student’s progress. The advising committee will meet once a year to review and document the student’s progress. In addition, the academic progress of each Ph.D. student will be reviewed by the full faculty on a yearly basis, typically at the beginning of each spring semester. Results of the full faculty review will be transmitted to the student in writing by the student’s advisor. The faculty as a whole will determine whether any problems are apparent that make continued pursuance of a degree program inadvisable.