Resources:

Advising job descriptions:

• UC-Berkeley Student Affairs Officer (pdf format)
• UC-Riverside Academic Advisor (pdf format)
• University of Texas Graduate Program Coordinator (pdf format)

Advising Organizational and Delivery Models (pdf format)

Graduate Student Orientation Guidelines - a draft of a document produced by the Advising Graduate & Professional Students Commission.

Bibliography provided by Jennifer Bloom, University of Illinois:

• Gordon, V. N., (2002) "Meeting the Needs of Tomorrow's Learners and Tomorrow's Workplace" in Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook. Note: This touches on older students, but doesn't talk very specifically about grad/prof students.
• McGuire, P. P. (1998, April).  The Ph.D.:  To pursue or not to pursue,that's the question.  Academic Advising News, XX (2), 1, 14.
• McGuire, P. P. (1998, April).  Advising graduate students commission:  Graduate advising guidelines. Academic Advising News, XX (2), 13-14.
• Schnieder, A. (1998, October 23).  Harvard faces the aftermath of a graduate student's suicide.  The Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A12.
• Selke, M. J. & Wong, T. D. (1993).  The mentoring-empowered model:  Professional role functions in graduate student advisement.  NACADA Journal, 13 (2), 21-26.
• Selke, M. J. (1994, February).  Attrition from doctoral programs in education:  Insight for graduate faculty members.  Paper presented as the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Detroit, Michigan. Note: contact Jenny Bloom for copy of this presentation.

Commission Meeting Information:

• 2006 Commission Meeting Discussion Topics (Word format)
• Training & Development session discussion topics (Word format)
• 2006 Survey Results (pdf format)

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Opportunities
• Fastweb
• GrantsNet

Web Links:

For Advisors of Graduate and Professional Students:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education - this is the bible for those of us in higher education administration.  
• Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
• Community of Science Directory
• The Mentor: An Online Academic Advising Journal
• NACADA Clearinghouse Resources for Graduate Students' Academic Advisors
• University of Kansas Graduate Mentoring Guidelines

For Graduate and Professional Students:

• National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS)
• Association for Support of Graduate Students (ASGS)
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
• Grad Resources
• Helpful Hints for Applying to Graduate School
• RPI Graduate School Application Essay Tips
• Do's and Don'ts of Application Essays

• Resource links to Web sites applicable to the topic
• Overview of topic written by a NACADA member knowledgeable in issue addressed
• Annotated bibliography of articles and/or books where advisors can "read more about" the topic
• Answers to frequently asked questions regarding the topic