Current Students

The MHR Department suggests that students see an MHR faculty advisor of their choice at least twice per year. Changes are made from year to year in the courses offered by the university and in various departments. Faculty advisors can help students develop petitions for deviation from prescribed requirements in cases where it would benefit the students. Your advisor can be helpful to you in the following ways:

1. Helping to explore career choices and aspirations and offering career guidance.
2. Providing assistance in matching the curriculum as closely as possible to your needs, based on your accomplishments and unique career goals.
3. Scheduling the specific courses most appropriate for achieving your career goals.
4. Minimizing the number of courses that have to be taken, especially for transfer students.
5. Offering guidance for sequencing courses in the best way.
6. Providing referrals to other faculty with expertise in particular areas.
7. And finally, establishing ties to faculty who wish to continue being helpful in the future.

Choose an advisor in Management, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship or Not-for-Profit, depending on your choice of Career Goal Elective Program, even if that choice is tentative.

See the advisor list and office hours

Alternative Career Goal Elective Programs are displayed on the back of your curriculum (“yellow”) sheet, copies of which are always available in the MHR Department Office, Building 164, Room 3064, or they may be printed from the Curriculum links of this website. Advisors are listed by their fields on the MHR Department bulletin board, just outside the office, along with their office hours. You may change advisors as you find teaching mentors with whom you wish to work.

Transfer students should meet with an advisor during Student Orientation prior to their first quarter, or as soon as possible thereafter, to determine which MHR curriculum requirements have been fulfilled by courses already taken. If you are a transfer student, you will have received a copy of the MHR curriculum sheet related to your year of entry showing those Cal Poly Pomona courses for which you have been given credit because you have already taken equivalent courses elsewhere. It is important to verify that you have been given maximum credit for courses that you are transferring in. Current copies of the articulation agreements between Cal Poly Pomona and local junior colleges are available on the Web. Click here!

Credit for a Cal Poly Pomona course is indicated by the “x-ing out” of the four units for the Cal Poly course with, usually, a “4-1/2” written in its place. This is because the three semester units earned at a community college are equivalent to 4-1/2 quarter units on our campus, which is on the quarter (not semester) system. Your advisor will determine whether the extra 1/2 units accumulated for a number of such courses can be applied to satisfy any other MHR requirements. While not always possible, we shall make every effort to put to good use all the units that you earned before enrolling at Cal Poly Pomona.