Lazaridis School of Business and Economics Advising

Advising Services

Academic advising is available to all current students (i.e., students with course registration) in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics.

• Prospective students are to contact Recruitment & Admissions (chooselaurier@wlu.ca) with their questions
• Incoming Year 1 students should direct their questions to the Laurier 101 Group (laurier101@wlu.ca) 

An academic advisor may assist you with:

• Developing your academic plan;
• Exploring the optimal program for you, including minors and options;
• Verifying that you are meeting program requirements in terms of course completion and grades;
• Clarifying academic regulations, policies and procedures;
• Discussing academic challenges;
• The petition process for exceptions to academic regulations; and
• Exploring and planning for graduate studies.
• Suggesting additional resources for enhanced academic and personal well-being.

For information on requesting a leave and the Leave of Absence Form, refer to Business Program Requirements.

Note: Although academic advising is available to all students, it is solely the responsibility of students to ensure that they are properly registered and meet course requirements and the requirements of the program for which they are registered.

All students should review this chapter and the relevant program requirements and course information carefully.

Booking Policy

Registration requests will be handled by email only.

Appointments can be booked up to 7 days in advance. Appointments cannot be cancelled or rescheduled less than 12 hours before the originally scheduled time. If a student needs to cancel their appointment with less than 12 hours notice, please contact LazaridisUGoffice@wlu.ca.

Appointments cancelled with insufficient notice may still be counted as a missed appointment. During certain times of year when the advisors are in high demand, our office may have to cancel your appointment and block off time for administrative maintenance. It is up to the student to reschedule this appointment.

When booking an appointment, students should only select the appointment type related to their inquiry. For example, a BBA student booking an Economics Advising appointment in order to bypass the BBA appointment queue and ask a question about a BBA course is considered exploiting the system and will result in that student being excluded from the online booking system.

Students who cannot attend their scheduled appointment must cancel their appointment through the booking system. This can be accomplished by following the instructions in your appointment confirmation email or by sending an email to LazaridisUGoffice@wlu.ca including your reason for cancelling your appointment.

Please note, that adding a new (additional) appointment, does NOT replace an existing appointment. That previous appointment that you are no longer able to attend needs to be cancelled. Only if an appointment is ‘updated’ will it cancel the other appointment.

Students that fail to show up for their appointment and or who do not cancel with sufficient notice will be excluded from the online booking system after their second missed appointment.

Lazaridis School Academic Advisors

There are four advisors in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics:

• Bethany Ankucza
• Melody Barfoot
• Kiersten Burzese
• Anne Leask

If you have a question, it is often easiest to be answered by email, via bbaadvising@wlu.ca or econadvising@wlu.ca as appropriate. Ensure that you email from your mylaurier email address and that you include your 9-digit Laurier student ID number.

Winter 2025 drop-in advising is available in LH2058. Please see this term's schedule posted on your Program Information Page in MyLS or posted on the door of LH2058  (update/add this and delete actual dates of drop-in advising)

Please note that virtual or online appointments can be booked up to 7 days in advance. The system is updated daily so if you don't see an appointment available, please try visiting the page again the next day. 

Please note that booking slots are released a week in advance, and do fill up quickly, so we recommend students check early in the morning for appointments the same day in the following week if there are no slots currently available. Appointments are released at 12:01 am.

Due to the increased volume in email during the period of May 5- 16, we will be solely advising through email and appointments will not be available. Advising is not available Monday May 19th (Victoria Day Holiday).  Appointments will open for booking the week before (so appointments for May 20th will become available to book through the portal on May 13th).

To sign up for an appointment, please first review the booking policy (above) and then select one of the following options:

• BBA Advising Appointment (Virtual)
• BBA Advising Appointment (In-person)
• Economics Advising Appointment (Virtual)
• Economics Advising Appointment (In-person)
• Management Option Advising Appointment (Virtual)
• Management Option Advising Appointment (In-person)

To sign up for petitions appointments only, please first review the booking policy (above) and then select one of the following options:

• Petitions Advising Appointment (Virtual)
• Petitions Advising Appointment (In-person)
• Petitions Advising Appointment - Double Degree (Virtual)
• Petitions Advising Appointment - Double Degree (In-person) 

Please ensure that you use your mylaurier email address to sign up for the appointment.