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Mission and Values
Mission: We advise and create educational pathways to foster student success.
Values:
- Advocate: Encourage student by advocating and motivating to attain their educational goals.
- Foster ownership & accountability: Deliver and share accurate instruction for students to achieve their educational goals with accountability.
- Empathy: Provide guidance, comfort and a safe space to listen and advise for all students.
All new and transfer students must enroll in FYE101 or FYE103. We recommend you enroll in your first semester.
Discover which one is right for you!
In order to provide a full-range of support to our students, advisement is open for in-person and virtual walk-ins. Virtual walk-ins are recommended for general advising questions. For FOI specific walk-in needs, in-person walk-ins are available for specific days See schedule below.
For a faster response, please email advising@paradisevalley.
Walk-in Advising (IN-PERSON) Schedule
Monday – Sharlene Celeskey (8am - 5pm), Don McCorkindale (8am – 5pm)
Tuesday – Violet Ardehali (10am – 5pm), Margarita Leyva (8am – 5pm)
Wednesday – Kristin Bennes (8am – 4:30pm), Elaine Chen (8am – 5pm in HS Bldg 119), Jay Franzen (9:30am – 5pm), Dr. Brett McNeal (10am – 2pm)
Thursday – Ian Jeffs (9am – 5pm), Brian Wilson (8am – 3:30pm)
Drop-in Advising (ONLINE) Schedule
Monday – Elaine Chen (8am – 5pm)
Tuesday – Kristin Bennes (8am – 4:30pm), Ian Jeffs (9am – 5pm)
Wednesday – Violet Ardehali (10am – 5pm), Sharlene Celeskey (8am - 5pm), Margarita Leyva (8am – 5pm), Dr. Brett McNeal (10am – 2pm)
Thursday – Jay Franzen (9:30am – 5pm), Don McCorkindale (8am – 5pm), Brian Wilson (8am – 3:30pm)
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Before making an appointment, students must complete the mandatory PVCC online Nursing Information Session. If you have not completed it when you make an appointment your appointment will be cancelled.
Questions about the Nursing Assistant (NA) program? Email nursing@paradisevalley.edu instead of Elaine.
Before making an appointment, students must complete the mandatory PVCC online Nursing Information Session. If you have not completed it when you make an appointment your appointment will be cancelled.
Questions about the Nursing Assistant (NA) program? Email nursing@paradisevalley.edu instead of Violet.
* Kristin also advises for Pre-Professional Programs such as Chiropractic, Dental, Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Podiatry, Occupational Therapy, and Veterinary.
