Announcements: Summer Academic Advising Appointment Availability
Academic Advisors will be observing Refresh Weeks this summer 2026, providing intentional time for our teams to step away, recharge, and focus on their well-being. This dedicated time ensures advisors can recharge and return ready to provide the highest quality service, allowing them to best support and serve our Wildcat community.
Please be aware that appointments may be unavailable or extremely limited during the following weeks:
- Week of May 25th-29th
- Week of June 29th-July 3rd
- Week of July 20th-July 24th
Please schedule academic advising appointments at least 24 hours in advance to allow your academic advisor enough time to prepare for your appointment.
Academic Advisors thank you for your understanding!
Starfish is an early alert and retention platform that was launched at Weber State University in the fall of 2017. The purpose and goal of the tool is to enhance the way we work across campus to help students by:
- Facilitating communication and connection between instructors, students, advisors, and support services
- Providing a streamlined means for faculty to give feedback to students on course performance and/or attendance through Progress Surveys
- Helping us prioritize and coordinate outreach for students; especially our most vulnerable students
- Keeping students informed of their own progress and achievements and prompting them to action if needed
- Connect students to campus resources
For questions or concerns, email starfish@weber.edu.
Special Feature Highlight: Surveys lead to Starfish To-Dos and Referrals
Our Starfish team works in partnership with key campus stakeholders to connect students with just-in-time information and referrals to campus services.
- New Student Orientation: Online Module Questions
- Ask Waldo SMS Text Messaging Survey(s)
- Student Success Analytics: Pre-Semester Check-in/Belonging Survey
Updates
How does Starfish support retention and persistence initiatives at WSU?
- Check out our 20-21 Program Results to see what we were able to accomplish with the efforts of our amazing faculty and staff!
- Best Practices - 4 Tips for using Starfish Flags & Kudos for Faculty