Cane Navigation (Undergraduate Academic Advising)

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Cane Navigators are your main point of contact throughout your undergraduate career, from orientation to graduation. They play a critical role in supporting you holistically, addressing not only your academic needs but also your personal and professional development through your undergraduate journey.

Cane Navigator Role and Responsibilities:

  • Support educational and professional goals
  • Curricular planning
  • Provide registration overrides and permissions, course substitutions, holds, prerequisite checks
  • Help you track your degree progress
  • Reinforce academic policies and procedures
  • Academic interventions
  • Facilitate referrals & follow-ups
  • Connect to social, health, wellness, resources and services

Finding Your Cane Navigator:

All undergraduate students are assigned one Cane Navigator embedded in their primary school or college to support students with all of their academic planning needs, including additional majors and minors outside of a student's primary school or college. The Cane Navigator may need to consult their colleagues in other departments on occasion, however, the goal is for students to not have to seek this guidance from multiple different Cane Navigator teams across the University.

If you are unsure of who your assigned Cane Navigator is, please check CaneLink or Navigate for your student success team assignments. The directions below will show you how to view this information.

How to find my Cane Navigator


Cane Navigator Contact Information by Department

Select your school, college, or program to find the list and contact information for Cane Navigators embedded in their respective schools, colleges, and programs.

Cane Navigator Contact Information by Department

School of Architecture


Miami Herbert Business School


School of Communication


School of Education & Human Development

College of Engineering



Innovation, Technology, and Design Program

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science


Frost School of Music


School of Nursing and Health Studies

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