Past Involvement in NACADA:

Years in NACADA: 4 years

National Offices Held and Accomplishments Achieved While in Office: N/A

Regional Activities/Offices Held, including accomplishments achieved while in office: N/A

Committee Activities and Accomplishments:

Commission/Interest Group Activities and Accomplishments:

• Current member, Liberal Arts Advisors Commission, Multicultural Concerns Commission and Advising Administration Commission
• Current member, Probatoin/Dismissal/Reinstatement Issues Interest Group

Other:

• Attended NACADA National Conferences, 2001-2004
• Co-Presenter, 2003 NACADA Conference — "Video Advising, Motivations Processes and Expectations"
• Attended 2003 Administrators' Institute

Platform Statement:

I am an Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences. I and my staff are responsible for Advising more than 7000 undergraduate students. We know that the Liberal Arts are the backbone of any learning process aimed at educating people and not training workers, which many now interpret the aim of education to be. With the tendency by some, to commercialize education for the sake of better jobs — the younger generation's instantaneous gratification motivation — will be seen as shallow in comparison to an education that prepares critical thinkers, with sound character and wholesome personalities, that will enable them to adapt to everchanging conditions of any kind.

Our President and Provost both have stated that "the Liberal Arts are like the Sun, around which all of the other disciplines revolve." Scott Brophy, a philosopher, put it this way — "One of the purposes of a liberal arts education is to make the inside of your head a more interesting place to live in for the rest of your life." I totally agree with both.