Since 2012, the AHA Tuning Project has led the way through a deliberate process “to articulate the disciplinary core of historical study and to define what a student should understand and be able to do at the completion of a history degree program.” Now who is going to tell the students? In many institutions, advisors have the first contact with students and their families and have to answer the question "why should I study history?" In this conversation at the AHA Annual meeting, we will discuss what tools and information undergraduateadvisors - who may or may not be historians themselves - need to make these first contact scenarios successful.