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Mark Walsh
Academic Advisor Intern with supervised experience in degree planning, academic policy, student case management, and graduation readiness. Practical work includes Academic advising, Degree audit, Student case management, Academic policy.
Experience
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
Academic Advisor Intern
Jun 2026 - Aug 2026
- Under supervision, compared a student’s transcript with degree requirements and prerequisite sequences, documented an achievable course plan, and referred financial or wellbeing concerns to the appropriate service.
- The team reviewed degree audits with graduate students and mapped remaining requirements, prerequisites, and registration timing; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team gave each student a documented path to the next academic milestone; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
- The team interpreted academic policies with program directors and recorded approved exceptions with scope and expiration dates; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team prevented one-off decisions from becoming undocumented precedent; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
- Under supervision, owned an academic-advising case review using registration records and academic policies, resolved a prerequisite mismatch and completed a verified study plan with the student.
- Under supervision, published student communication using recurring advising questions, reduced incomplete registration requests by 24% during the next enrollment period.
Selected project
Academic Advisor — independent case study
Intern project team member
Sep 2025 - May 2026
- In a mentor-reviewed simulation, reviewed degree audits with graduate students and mapped remaining requirements, prerequisites, and registration timing; gave each student a documented path to the next academic milestone.
- As a second supervised exercise, interpreted academic policies with program directors and recorded approved exceptions with scope and expiration dates; prevented one-off decisions from becoming undocumented precedent.
- Under supervision, the team triaged advising cases by registration risk, funding deadlines, and graduation impact; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review
- Built an anonymized learning-support scenario with explicit starting needs and an observation plan; prepared accessible materials and checked whether the activity actually exercised the intended learning objective.
- Prepared a follow-up record distinguishing observed progress from an adult’s interpretation, tested the guidance with a different learner scenario, and revised instructions that assumed knowledge not yet demonstrated.
- Owned the independent lesson trial using observable learning criteria, resolved an ambiguous instruction and completed revised practice materials after a peer walkthrough.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.A. Sociology — in progress
Sep 2023 - Jun 2027
Relevant coursework: Social research methods, social stratification, sociology of education, statistics
Skills
Role expertise
Academic advising · Degree audit · Student case management · Academic policy · Student information systems
Publications
- Published a personal teaching reflection using the practice observation log, explaining differentiated instructions, feedback choices and the limits of a small classroom exercise.


