Thursday, April 17, 2008

A Live Internet-broadcast Webinar Event

Ensuring Advisor Success: Mastering the Art of Advising through the First Year of Advising and Beyond

Are you a new advisor at the beginning of this exciting career? Are you responsible for the training and development of advisors in your unit or at your institution? Then this broadcast is for you!

How can the concept of "Going Green" be applied to advisor training and development?  Ask yourself these questions:

• Have we initiated programs or developed creative ways of using existing resources for advisor training and development on our campus?
• Are we facilitating discussion sessions surrounding NACADA Webinar broadcasts?
• Are we hosting brown bag lunches to discuss articles from Academic Advising Today and/or the NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources?
• Are we drawing from NACADA resources such as monographs or CDs to develop advisor inservice-training, workshops, discussion groups or other on-campus opportunities for advisor development?
• Are there additional advisor development ideas or resources that we could share with our colleagues in the field?

Planning is underway for an August Webinar, Save Time and Energy: Utilize Existing Resources for Advisor Training and Development, which will highlight creative usage of existing advisor training/development materials by NACADA members, and YOUR INPUT is invited!  Member processes or programs that can inspire creative ideas on how we can "recyle" NACADA and other existing resources for innovative advisor development purposes will be explored in this summer Internet broadcast. 

Learn more about this coming event, and contact Leigh Cunningham or Marsha Miller at the NACADA Executive Office and tell us your story today! Submission deadline is April 15.

As explained by NACADA Emerging Leaders Development Team member Nathan Vickers (University of Texas-Austin) in the March 2008 edition of Academic Advising Today, NOW is the time to apply for the 2008-2010 class of NACADA Emerging Leaders and Mentors.

Applications for the 2008-2010 class are available online. The Emerging Leader Program was developed to encourage members from diverse groups to get involved in leadership opportunities within the organization, outfit participants with the skills and tools necessary to pursue elected and appointed leadership positions, increase the number of leaders from diverse groups, and encourage and assist members of underrepresented populations to attend State, Regional, or National Conferences. Emerging Leaders are provided funding to assist them with travel and involvement in the association for the first year of their two-year commitment to the program.

Applications for both the Emerging Leaders and Mentors are due May 1, 2008, with final selection being made by June 2008. For information about the program, including criteria and applications, visit the ELP Website.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A Live Internet-broadcast Webinar Event

Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising

Joanne Damminger (Rowan University) and Ken Hughey (Kansas State University) contend that career advising can enhance advisors’ work with students and facilitate students’ career and academic development and decision making. Career advising helps students to understand the relationship between their academic programs and career opportunities, to make academic and career decisions, to clarify and set career and academic goals, and to develop plans to achieve their goals.

Join Joanne and Ken on May 13 as they discuss:

• Applying career theories to career advising
• Integrating career and academic advising
• Advisor competencies needed for effective career advising
• The advisor’s role in facilitating students’ academic and career planning
• The career advising process
• Resources, activities and interventions to enhance career advising

Registration deadline is May 2, but limited seating is filling up fast! Don't miss this opportunity - Learn More and Register Today!

Congratulations and a big thanks to all the chairs and committees of the five successful regional conferences held in March. The leaders of the April and May conferences listed below are happy to welcome you to their meetings, so register today!

Each year, a "Best of Region" presentation is selected for each Region Conference. Those chosen will receive financial assistance to attend and present their session at the 2008 Annual Conference in Chicago!

Please join us in congratulating the newest members of the NACADA Leadership!  Jermaine Williams and Kyle Ellis were recently elected as Administrative Division Representative and Regional Division Representative, respectively.

At the conclusion of the Annual Conference in Chicago, Jermaine and Kyle will begin their two-year terms (2008-2010) in these leadership positions while also serving as members of the NACADA Council, succeeding Ruth Hussey and Glenn Kepic, respectively.  Jermaine will team up with Skip Crownhart, appointed Administrative Division Representative, and Kyle will work with Gail Stepina, appointed Regional Division Representative, to lead their respective divisions.

Jermaine Williams is the Coordinator for First Year Student Programs in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies at Temple University, and is currently serving as Chair of the Membership Committee. Kyle Ellis is the Assistant Director of the Academic Support Center at the University of Mississippi, and currently serves as the Southeast Region 4 Chair.

Complete 2008 election results are available on the NACADA Website. An article summarizing the election results and related statistics will be printed in the June 2008 edition of Academic Advising Today - be sure to check it out!

Faculty Advising: Collaborating for Success

Third Annual Seminar

June 19-20, 2008 in Portsmouth, Va.

Since faculty play such an integral role in academic advising, it is imperative that all constituencies work together to assure that faculty have the information, tools and resources to effectively engage in the advising process. This two-day seminar will provide participants with the opportunity to gain essential insights on fostering collaboration among those responsible for advising. In addition, faculty participants will engage in activities to strengthen their advising skills.

The seminar will provide opportunities to:

• Understand the value of faculty as academic advisors
• Strengthen advising skills
• Examine both curricular and pedagogical implications of viewing advising as teaching and learning
• Explore activities to engage and motivate faculty in advising
• Consider the various models of exemplary faculty advisor training and development
• Study the differing needs of faculty advisors with respect to academic discipline and stage in faculty development
• Discover multiple measures employed to assess faculty advisors and advising programs
• Review examples of intentional and carefully developed plans of assessment

Areas of study will center around: 

• Definition and Philosophy of Advising; Theoretical Foundation; Components of Advising including Teaching/Learning of Advising and Advising Syllabus as well as Roles and Responsibilities of Faculty Advisors 
• Training and Development Issues - including motivational issues 
• Faculty Rewards and Recognition/Evaluation of Faculty Advising and Faculty Advisors 

Kathy Stockwell, Jayne Drake and Marti Hemwall will facilitate instruction and discussion in important advising topics for individuals and teams from public, private and two-year institutions.

For more information on how you and your team of faculty advisors and administrators from your institution can enhance or improve advising on your campus click here. We are looking forward to your participation! 

2008 NACADA Academic Advising Summer Institutes

June 22-27 - Portsmouth, Va.

and

July 27- August 1 - Austin, Texas

Members have been submitting manuscripts for the June edition of NACADA's quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today, and among those accepted for publication are:

"An Advising April Fool Lesson" by Heidi Koring (Lynchburg College)

"Preparing to Advise First-Year Advisors" by Christine Leichliter (The College of New Jersey) and Kathy McCleaf (Mary Baldwin College)

"Graduate Advisors Are Essential When 'Real Life' Gets in the Way" by Kelli Moore (James Madison University)

We are now discussing article topics for the September edition. If you are interested in sharing your ideas with your colleagues in this format, check out the Guidelines today!

Featured this month in the Clearinghouse:

• Campus-based advisor certification.  "Advisor Certification at Utah Valley State College" is authored by Jeffrey L. McClellan, Clint Moser, J. Waterreus of the Advisor Training and Development department at Utah Valley State College .  Discover an advisor training and development system that will work on many campuses.
• "Let me give you a hand" -- A guide to writing simple yet effective student reference letters by Richard Voorhees and Larry Landis. 
• Resources to assist in advising Veterans

Narratives are being requested as Exemplary Practices of Integrated Career and Academic Advising Centers for possible inclusion in the upcoming Handbook of Career Advising. The intent is to identify academic and career advising centers (or academic and career planning centers) characterized by an integrated approach to helping students with their academic and career planning. A section of the book will present narratives of the centers selected and is intended to provide readers with exemplary practices of integrated academic and career advising centers. Professionals associated with integrated academic and career advising centers are encouraged to submit narratives of their work and accomplishments for publication consideration in the Handbook of Career Advising .

Kansas State University in partnership with NACADA has offered for four years a Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising online. Now in addition to the Graduate Certificate, KSU is offering an online Master of Science in Academic Advising degree.

You still have time to apply and register for classes now for the Spring semester! Visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GradPrograms/index.htm for more information!

NACADA members may designate up to four Commissions and/or Interest Groups with which to have official affiliation. This official affiliation primarily identifies those Commissions and/or Interest Groups for which you would have voting privileges, receive activity updates, and be eligible to hold an elected or appointed position within, such as serving on a committee or serving as Chair. Although participation in Commissions and Interest Groups is entirely optional for NACADA members, we encourage you to join those of special interest to you, as they are valuable resources for information and networking.

Click on the links for lists of the current Commissions and Interest Groups. More information on a particular Commission or Interest Group can be reviewed on its individual webpage.

If you would like to designate or change the preferred Commission and/or Interest Group choices with which you would like to be affiliated, please complete this online form. Upon receipt of this information, your membership record will be updated accordingly. If you previously made your selections, but do not recall which Commissions or Interest Groups were designated, you can simply indicate your current preferences via this form and previous choices will be replaced. Please be sure to provide your name and institution information when completing this form so the appropriate member record can be updated. If you have any questions, please contact NACADA at nacada@ksu.edu.

NOTE: Your four selections can be any combination of Commissions and Interest Groups. You can change your Commission and Interest Group affiliations at any time - although you should be aware that this may affect your eligibility for certain awards and elected positions.

Plan ahead for these upcoming Events in the NACADA Webinar Series:

June 11, 2008 - Advising Student-Athletes on a College Campus

Presenter: Derek Van Rheenen (University of California, Berkeley)

Registration deadline is June 2.

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August 12, 2008 - Save Time and Energy: Utilize Existing Resources for Advisor Training and Development

Presenters: Leigh Cunningham and Marsha Miller, NACADA Executive Office

Registration deadline is August 1.

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September 18, 2008 - Proactively Planning for a Career in Academic Advising

Presenter: Jennifer Bloom, NACADA President

Registration deadline is September 10.

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Register concurrently for any three Webinars and save $10 off each!