Then students select adviser based on shared academic interests.

Later, students may have the opportunity of selecting the adviser that they prefer.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the ?departments advising load.

In any case, new graduate students can learn who their advisers or temporary advisers are by visiting or emailing the departmental office and asking for the information.

If you are a graduate teaching assistant, your adviser also may be your boss.

If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things, including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.

Academic departments vary in their procedures for assigning academic advisers to graduate students.

And clever as Mr Obama's advisers are, history suggests they will be bad at this.

The advisers also meet with students privately and stay in touch with parents, so they are deeply invested in the students'uccess

And your adviser for your masters program?

In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the departments "advising load".

You should also direct your questions to your departmental office or academic adviser.

The prime minister denied there was a connection between his news adviser's outside interests and the change in legislative programme.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology recommended that every postdoctoral researcher put together an IDP m consultation with an adviser.

An IDP be made in consultation with an adviser

Trying to quantify or measure the impact of women in politics is hard because in very few countries have there been enough women in politics to make a difference,"says Anne-Marie Goetz, peace and security adviser for U.N. Women.

"By taking upon the role of adviser rather than decision maker, one does not suffer the consequences of decision fatigue," he says.