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Marsha
A. Miller, M.A., M.S.
NACADA
Assistant Director, Resources & Services
Marsha
Miller, a NACADA member since 1988, joined Kansas State University
and the Executive Office staff in 2002 as NACADA Research
Coordinator and now serves as NACADA's Assistant Director
for Resources and Services.
A history
and political science major, Marsha was a peer advisor in
the University of Missouri-Columbia's College of Education.
She earned a Master of Arts degree in Learning Disabilities
at the University
of Iowa where she learned to incorporate assessment and
research into her daily classroom activities in both the K-12 and college levels. Marsha
also earned a Master's degree in counseling from Emporia State
University.
Marsha
spent 14 years at Cloud County Community College where she
taught developmental skills and education courses, supervised
student teachers for area universities, counseled students,
served as the ADA compliance officer, and advised Cloud's
education majors and undecided students. Upon completion of
her duties as Chair of the faculty committee charged with
restructuring
Cloud's advising and academic support services, Marsha was
appointed as the first director of Cloud's Advising
Center that received the NACADA Outstanding
Advising Program award and the Noel-Levitz citation for
Excellence
in Student Retention. Her
institutional research of student persistence indicators was
a key factor in Marsha's appointment as Director of Student
Services at Cloud's Geary County Campus where she oversaw
admissions, assessment, advising, financial aid, registration,
and student records.
Marsha has presented at the national
conferences of various student services organizations, published
articles, served as a Title III advising consultant, and has received
outstanding teaching awards. She most recently served as an editor for the 2010 NACADA monograph Comprehensive advisor training and development: Practices that deliver.
In her position as NACADA Assistant
Director for Resources & Services, Marsha is the Executive
Office liaison to the NACADA Research
Committee and Publications Advisory Board, serves on the
Editorial Board of the NACADA Journal, is the Journal's
Book
Review Editor, directs the NACADA Clearinghouse
of Academic Advising Resources, manages the publication
of NACADA monographs/books
and member surveys,
and answers member questions regarding numerous advising related
concerns.
Additionally, she serves as a NACADA delegate to the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS).
Contact Marsha at miller@ksu.edu.
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