• Advising students on course selections and planning.
• Graduation audits.
• Advising students on postgraduate studies and career choices. Making available US college rankings and information to students.
• Communicating with instructors in other departments regarding class that may be of interest to students.
• Communicating with course instructors regarding student's special circumstance, i.e., grade, illness, family problem, etc.
• Counseling students on family problem.
• Counseling parents on student's problem, medical or otherwise.
• Directing parents to focus on welfare of the student.
• Hospital visits.
• Advising parents on student's progress, problem, limitation, etc.
• Directing students and parents toward more appropriate curriculum, career choice, etc.
• Deflecting parents attempt to parley student-advisor relationship for their commercial gain.

In addition to direct advising duties, there were other student-related activities that I performed such as:

• Served as a member of an ad hoc committee on Improvement of Students' English Skills. This committee was formed when some students complained that my English was too "American" for them to understand.
• Served briefly as a member of the Graduate Committee of SIIT.
• Served as a member of the Japanese Relation Committee. One of the main responsibilities of the members of this committee was to coordinate summer training in Japan for students.
• Be a general cheerleader. Lending support to students performing extracurricular activities such as inter-institute sports, robotics competition, graduation ceremony, etc.
• Served as a chaperon on occasional off-campus student activities student activities.

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