Amber Rayborn
Specialization: Advising, Student Success, Student Development, New Student Orientation
As the Assistant Director of Advising and Student Success at the Herbert College of Agriculture, Amber is dedicated to fostering collaborative, inclusive, and student-centered relationships that facilitate academic achievement, promote personal and professional growth, and create a strong sense of community and belonging. Her key responsibilities encompass the development, facilitation, and assessment of a proactive and holistic academic advising model, guiding students from orientation through graduation.
Amber also plays a crucial role in supervising, leading, training, and nurturing student success advisors, ensuring that advising activities prioritize a student-centered, caring, holistic, inclusive, and culturally aware approach. She actively addresses and resolves concerns raised by students, advisors, or college administration, ensuring a responsive support system.
In addition to her core responsibilities, Amber takes the lead in organizing the College's new student orientation, contributing to curriculum development, teaching AGNR 100, advising students within the Agricultural Exploratory program, and serving as a valuable resource for faculty, advisors, and students in navigating university policies and procedures related to academic advising and student success. She also represents the College across the campus by participating in various university committees, councils, and task forces.
Amber teaches AGNR 100 Student Success in the Herbert College of Agriculture, which serves as an orientation and integration into the College with emphases on academic planning, self-exploration, experience learning, and career development.
2621 Morgan Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4500
Amber Rayborn
2621 Morgan Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4500
As the Assistant Director of Advising and Student Success at the Herbert College of Agriculture, Amber is dedicated to fostering collaborative, inclusive, and student-centered relationships that facilitate academic achievement, promote personal and professional growth, and create a strong sense of community and belonging. Her key responsibilities encompass the development, facilitation, and assessment of a proactive and holistic academic advising model, guiding students from orientation through graduation.
Amber also plays a crucial role in supervising, leading, training, and nurturing student success advisors, ensuring that advising activities prioritize a student-centered, caring, holistic, inclusive, and culturally aware approach. She actively addresses and resolves concerns raised by students, advisors, or college administration, ensuring a responsive support system.
In addition to her core responsibilities, Amber takes the lead in organizing the College's new student orientation, contributing to curriculum development, teaching AGNR 100, advising students within the Agricultural Exploratory program, and serving as a valuable resource for faculty, advisors, and students in navigating university policies and procedures related to academic advising and student success. She also represents the College across the campus by participating in various university committees, councils, and task forces.
Amber teaches AGNR 100 Student Success in the Herbert College of Agriculture, which serves as an orientation and integration into the College with emphases on academic planning, self-exploration, experience learning, and career development.