top text
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), Emily Yagelowich (8am - 5pm)
Wednesday – Kristin Bennes (8am – 4:30pm), Elaine Chen (8am – 5pm), Jay Franzen (9:30am – 5pm), Dr. Brett McNeal (10am – 2pm)
Thursday – Ian Jeffs (9am – 5pm), Brian Wilson (8am – 3:30pm)
Friday – All advisors are available to see students
Drop-in Advising (ONLINE) Schedule
Monday – Elaine Chen (8am – 5pm), Emily Yagelowich (8am - 5pm), Dr. Brett McNeal (10am – 2pm)
Tuesday – Kristin Bennes (8am – 4:30pm), Ian Jeffs (9am – 5pm)
Wednesday – Violet Ardehali (10am – 5pm), Sharlene Celeskey (8am - 5pm)
Thursday – Jay Franzen (9:30am – 5pm), Don McCorkindale (8am – 5pm), Brian Wilson (8am – 3:30pm)
Friday – All advisors are available to see students
card set one
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 Dental, Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant, Podiatry, and Veterinary.
*Emily also advises first and second-semester Biological Sciences students in the STEM FOI. Students in their third or fourth semester should meet with Kristin Bennes.
