Plan with Your Advisor

Plan with your Advisor

Advisors help you identify possible courses for the upcoming quarters and provide advice and guidance to help you meet your educational goals and plans. 

  • If you are working towards a Peninsula College two-year degree, one year certificate or the Bachelor in Applied Science degree, you are required to meet with an advisor prior to registration each quarter.
  • You are strongly encouraged to meet with an advisor if you are not seeking a degree, but are completing pre-requisites needed for a degree at another college or university.
  • If you are taking classes for professional development, personal enrichment or working towards PC Mini-certificates, you are welcome to meet with an advisor, but it is not required.
  • If you are unsure if you are degree seeking, call Pirate Central at (360) 417-6340.

New students:

Once you have applied, and completed placement and orientation, you may contact Pirate Central to schedule an advising appointment to meet with a professional advisor located in the Student Development Center.

Advisors are available to help you:

Continuing students:   

After your first quarter, each student is assigned to a faculty advisor.  

  • Each quarter you will receive an email that includes: 
    • Your assigned faculty advisor information 
    • Advising/registration instructions
  • Each quarter you will need to meet with your faculty advisor during Advising Week to:
    • Get the date/time you can register

You can meet with a professional advisor in Student Development during other periods of the quarter should you need to add/drop a class, discuss transfer plans, or have general advising questions.

Running Start Students: 

  • You will meet with a professional advising team member (assignment based on high school) the entire time you are a Running Start student  
  • You will meet with an advisor during Early Advising, which begins approximately one week prior to Advising Week 
  • You will need to meet with a professional advisor to make changes to their schedule
  • You will receive an email notification reminding them of the process each quarter.

Students on Academic Probation: 

  • Students who earn a cumulative GPA below a 2.0 for two consecutive quarters will be placed on academic probation. 
  • You will work specifically with the probation advisor, not your previous faculty advisor or Running Start team
  • If you earn a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher, you will return to good academic standing and will go back to working with you faculty or Running Start advisor. 

Schedule an Appointment:

Professional advising is available on campus, or by phone. To schedule an appointment contact:

Academic advising services are also available at your local campus:

Peninsula College at Port Townsend: (360) 385-4605
Anna Forrestal | Schedule Advising Appointment

Peninsula College at Forks: (360) 374-3223

Running Start Advising

Port Angeles | Dr. Bobbie Zajkowski
Sequim | Veronica Bechtold
Seaview, Lincoln & Crescent | Cindy Lauderback
Neah Bay, Clallam Bay, Quilcene, Stevenson, Insight & WAVA | Cindy Lauderback
Port Townsend, OCEAN & Chimacum | Anna Forrestal
Forks & Quileute | Rebecca Schwartz 

Faculty advisors see students during advising week only and should be contacted directly. Faculty contact information can be found in the Staff and Faculty Directory http://www.pencol.edu/faculty-staff.

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