Undergraduate Academic Advisors


Professor Paul Ebner, Outstanding Undergraduate Counselor for 2018
Since 1880-81, more than 90 percent of all College of Agriculture bachelor’s degree recipients have received academic advice and counsel from a dedicated faculty member.
The college has a distinguished and proud record of having faculty work with undergraduate students as academic counselors, student organization advisors and mentors. Many other disciplines have utilized “professional academic advisors” to undergraduates for decades, but only very recently has the College of Agriculture migrated away from faculty academic advising.
In a relatively recent campus survey of student satisfaction, College of Agriculture faculty academic advisors were rated higher than academic advisors across the campus in 17 of 18 factors measured.
For the past 50 years, the college has presented an Outstanding Undergraduate Counselor Award each year to recognize a faculty academic advisor. Additional awards were presented at the departmental level.
Recipients of the David C. Pfendler Outstanding Undergraduate Counselor Award, College of Agriculture, Purdue University *
YEAR OUTSTANDING COUNSELOR
1969 Bline, Don F. *
1970 Roach, G. William *
1971 Jones, Hobart W. *
1972 Lien, Ray M.
1973 Vorst, James J.
1974 Dobson, Richard C.
1975 Hafen Leslie
1976 Ford, David R. *
1977 Stob, Martin *
1978 Lien, Ray M.
1979 Ahlrichs, James L.
1980 Montague, Frederick *
1981 Rhykerd, Charles L.
1982 Carson, James R.
1983 Van Scoyoc, George E.
1984 Bohl, Lawrence P.
1985 Taylor, Robert W.
1986 Montague, Frederick *
1987 Schweitzer, Lee E. *
1988 Cunningham, Merle D.
1989 Flint, Harrison L.
1990 Molnar, Donald J.
1991 McFee, William W.
1992 Lemenager, Ronald P.
1993 Erickson, Steven P. *
1994 DeTurk, Phillip E.
1995 Uhl, Joseph N.
1996 Joly, Robert J.
1997 Housley, Thomas W.
1998 Graveel, John G. *
1999 Diekman, Mark A. *
2000 Strickland, R. Mack *
2001 Dana, Michael N.
2002 Strickland, R. Mack *
2003 Mills, Jr., Walter L.
2004 Dooley, Frank J.
2005 Talbert, B. Allen
2006 Hayes, Kirby D. *
2007 Balschweid, Mark A.
2008 Cousin, Maribeth A.
2009 Mauer, Lisa J. *
2010 Lumkes, John
2011 Bigelow, Cale A.
2012 Dobbins, Craig L.
2013 Buckmaster, Dennis *
2014 Russell, Mark A.
2015 Steinhardt, Gary
2016 Grant, Richard H.
2017 Ogas, Joe
2018 Ebner, Paul
* Individual earned Bachelor’s degree from Purdue School of Agriculture.