How to Plan your classes

• "Degree Planner"
• "Search for Classes"
• "Schedule Builder" 
• Your WVIT Curriculum Sheet (classes you must take to graduate)
• Terms that your classes are planned to be Offered (Term Typically Offered)
• Link to WVIT Courses and the prerequisites (for planning purposes)
• Planning Calenders and Deadlines

Forms

• Declaring your concentration
• Withdrawal forms 
• Registrar's Office Forms

Resources for You

• How to meet with a WVIT Peer Advisor-Zoom link for Drop-ins (closed for summer)
• CAFES -College Advising Resources
• Transfer Center
• Students with Dependants
• Study Abroad planning (only for those that wish to)
• Minors
• Internship Information

 

Schedule an Appointment with your WVIT Academic Advisor-Kristin McCain-Bender   

 

   

Kristin McCain-Bender-WVIT Academic Advisor

Email:  krbender@calpoly.edu
                 

      Education

• M.A. Counseling/Human Relations, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA

• B.S. in Psychology, Emphasis in Education, Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
• Certificate in Natural Health Consulting, Stratford Career Institute

 

 

Kristin grew up in the California Central Valley and began her Academic Advising career in 2005 at a private university on the East Coast.  She then came to Cal Poly as an EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) Counselor in 2007. She joined the College of CAFES in 2015 and now serves as the Wine and Viticulture Academic Advisor.  She has lived & worked everywhere from aboard a ship in the Caribbean, to the Deep South but her heart calls the Central Coast “home”. She is passionate about helping Cal Poly students strategize and succeed in both their educational and personal goals.  Outside of work, you will find her outdoors with her husband, 3 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 16 chickens enjoying the Central Coast.