If you want to know exactly how to advise a student then this book is for you. Dr. Hoffman provides specific scenarios of student advisement showing exactly how to advise using the Five-Step Advisement Process of purposeful advisement. Our colleges need advisors that look out for our students in the areas of academic preparedness, physical needs, financial matters of importance, getting the right classes to get the advisee in their program and out to the workforce in the most efficient time possible. Dr. Hoffman's five axioms, if followed, will improve student academic success through "The Art of Academic Advising."