August
1 - 6, 2004 in Milwaukee,
WI
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Join us at the Academic Advising Summer Institute
in Milwaukee! Don't miss this professional development
opportunity for one-to-one assistance from nationally recognized
experts in the field of academic advising.
Fax
your registration to the NACADA office at 785/532-7732 now,
while waiting on processing through your business office.
Click here
for registration information and institute schedule and topics!
EARLY
REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE IS JULY
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from Attendees of the June Summer Institute in Portsmouth,
VA:
"The Summer Institute is a must
for all faculty and professional advisors. Being immersed
in advisory issues and practices with colleagues from around
the country was invaluable! The opportunity to talk with leaders
in the field, to challenge and have our own beliefs challenged
was rewarding. I leave with a new appreciation for the field
and colleagues across the nation that I can contact when I
have an advisory issue. The best professional development
experience I've had in 15 years in higher ed! The institute
is an advisors' vacation; challenging, empathetic, rigorous,
intellectual, supportive, demanding, informative, and fun."
Karen Sullivan-Vance - Oregon State University
"At no other conference have I felt that I was surrounded
by so much knowledge, experience, insight, and support!"
Nikki A. Dyer - J. Sargent Reynolds Community College
"As a direct result of the
action plan I wrote while attending the NACADA summer institute
in Portsmouth Virginia, my Provost is appointing me Coordinator
of Advising. Upon my return from Virginia I presented
the action plan to him and he was delighted. The Coordinator
of Advising position is the first step in implementing that
action plan. Thank you very much for such a wonderful
professional development opportunity. Please convey my thanks
to all involved with the Portsmouth summer institute."
Rob Lukaskiewicz - Norwich University |
NEW
NACADA MONOGRAPH AVAILABLE:
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THE
STATUS OF ACADEMIC ADVISING:
FINDINGS
FROM THE ACT
SIXTH NATIONAL SURVEY
WESLEY
R. HABLEY, EDITOR
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Want the most up-to-date statistics
regarding the delivery of advising services? Required to have comparable
data for an accreditation visit?
This monograph (#10 in the NACADA monograph series) provides details
that illuminate advising practice throughout the academy. The 6th
National Survey on Academic Advising gathered data from over 1,400
institutions nationwide that reported on all aspects of advising
practices and services. In addition to survey data, the monograph
provides observations and data-drawn conclusions that can help your
institution.
ORDER
ONE TODAY!!
Two additional monographs
are planned for release this fall:
- Giving
Advice to Students: A Road Map for College Professionals (Monograph
#11)
- Advising
Transfer Students: Issues and Strategies (Monograph
#12)
Note to authors:
The NACADA Journal publication
deadlines have recently changed (see http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/journal_guidelines.htm#pubsch).
If you are planning
to submit an article for the Spring 2005 Education Levels Facets
issue (advising freshmen, graduate students, etc.), please contact
the Journal Editors at Journals@ksu.edu
as soon as possible. The Editors would like to communicate with
authors planning to submit articles.
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Building
Bridges: Advisors as Architects for the Future
28th
Annual Conference on Academic Advising
October
6-9, 2004
Cincinnati
Convention Center
HELP
NACADA CELEBRATE ITS 25th ANNIVERSARY! |
The
Registration Brochure will be mailed next week to everyone who received
these Highlights. Allow up to three weeks for delivery-in
the meantime, the entire brochure is available at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/index.htm.
There is an overview of the conference events plus links
to the registration form; hotel reservation information; airline
and auto rental discounts; and optional tours.
If
you're making airline reservations, note that American, Delta and
Northwest airlines offer a higher % discount for bookings made 30
and 60 days in advance. The 60-day deadline will be here soon!
Two
post-conference workshops are offered Saturday afternoon, as well
as tours in the afternoon and evening. Since the conference
ends on a Saturday (different than prior years), you may want to
compare the cost of an additional hotel room night to a potentially
higher airfare without a Saturday night stay.
A
good way to get involved and meet new people is to volunteer for
a couple of hours at the conference. Sign up by contacting
Nicole Grant, University of Cincinnati: nm.grant@uc.edu
or Jo Pionke, Kent State University: jpionke@kent.edu.
All
300+ individual sessions are listed according to advising topics/tracks
at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/tracks/index.htm,
so you can find presentations relating to your advising interests.
A small sample of this year's exciting program:
- What Really
Matters for Students' Success?
- Counseling
to the Beat: Advising the Hip Hop Generation
- Motivating
Advisors: No Money, No Problem
- Coping with
Students in Crisis
- Proactive
Uses of Technology in Advising
- That's so
Punny-Creative Marketing and Outreach of Academic Services
- Survivor:
Making it Through the First Year
- Over the
River and Through the Woods: A First-year Curriculum for
Undecided Students
The Academic
Advising Graduate Certificate Program offered through Kansas State
University in partnership with NACADA has been quite popular.
Nearly 150 students have enrolled in the certificate courses since
Fall 2003. Fall semester courses will be Foundations in
Academic Advising and Trends in Career Development.
Visit the NACADA web site for application, registration, and tuition
information (http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GraduateCertificate/index.htm).
Legal issues can confuse even the most
experienced advisor. This month the Clearinghouse
features "Legal Issues for Advisors: A Primer" by Steve
Robinson, University of Alabama, http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/legal.htm.
Robinson, a long-time advisor, explains the basics regarding
such issues as student due process rights and law of agency.
An understanding of basic legal concepts is an integral, yet often
unknown, part of the practice of academic advising. Take a
few minutes and review this overview of legal issues.
2004 marks the 25th anniversary of
NACADA. As we approach the anniversary celebration in Cincinnati,
the Clearinghouse will feature articles from the archives
of the Academic Advising News. This month we feature
a 1991 article, by Jerry Ford, that can help advisors radiate "A
Caring Attitude" http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Caring-Attitude.htm
. The article, in the form of a checklist, is great for
new advisors; it can also serve as a 5-minute renewal for those
more experienced in the field.
Are you taking a breather after new
student enrollment on your campus? Need some summer reading?
Review a book for the NACADA Journal. Recent Book
Review acquisitions include:
- Contradictions
in Women's Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community
at a Single-Sex College
- Journey
to the Ph.D.: How to navigate the process as African Americans
- Successful
New Employee Orientation: Assess, Plan, Conduct, and Evaluate
Your Program
- Assessing
Student Learning: A common sense guide
Find
these books and many more at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/brbooklist.htm.
Note:
Members have three months from the receipt of a book to read and
write the review. The book becomes the property of the reviewer
upon acceptance of the review for publication. NACADA members
may review and publish one book review per academic year; books
requested are for the 2004-2005 academic year.
As you plan your 2004-2005 academic calendar,
don't forget the Academic Advising Administrators' Institute, January
30-February 1, 2005 in St. Pete Beach, Florida (http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/AdminInst/index.htm);
the NEW expanded Assessment of Academic Advising Institute, February
2-4, 2005 (http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/AssessmentInst/index.htm);
and a special Seminar scheduled for January 27-28, 2005 - topic
to be released soon in the "Events" section of the NACADA
web site.
Information is now available on the 2005 NACADA Leadership elections
at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Election/index.htm,
including a list of positions to be elected, eligibility criteria,
and an online nomination recommendation form. Election information
and printed nomination forms will also be available in the NACADA
booth in the Exhibits area at the National Conference in Cincinnati
and in the back of the conference program. Nomination forms can
be submitted either online, at the conference, or by fax or mail.
All nominations will be due to the Executive Office by FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 15, 2004.
Congratulations to the 2004 award recipients in the NACADA National
Awards Program. All award recipients will be formally honored during
the NACADA National Conference in Cincinnati this fall. Links to
listings of these award recipients can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/PastRecipients.htm.
The Research Grant award decisions will be announced in late July.
After reading academic advising articles
from non-advising publications, don't forget to share these articles
with your fellow NACADA members. We wish to spotlight articles
in the NACADA Highlights that were recently published in national,
regional or statewide non-advising publications.
Article submissions may be made at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/advisingspotlight.htm.
NACADA would like to announce that Lynne Carlson has agreed to begin
serving her term a few months early as the new Chair for the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Allies (LGBTA) Concerns Commission.
Lynne replaces Dean Jolly who recently stepped down from
this leadership role. NACADA truly appreciates the time and
efforts that Dean devoted to representing this commission during
his tenure as chair. Lynne is currently a Counselor/Advisor
at the University of South Florida and can be reached at lcarlson@tempest.coedu.usf.edu.
Lynne's contact information is also available on the commission
web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C18/leadership.htm.
It's not
too late to submit the names of individuals who received campus
awards in 2004 for outstanding academic advising or advising administration
at your institution. NACADA would very much like to recognize these
advising professionals. If your institution has given such an award
this year, please e-mail the following information to Julia Wolf
at the NACADA Executive Office at jqwolf@ksu.edu:
exact name of the award plus the award recipient's name, position
title, department/unit, institution, complete mailing address and
e-mail address. Please note that these advising
award recipients do not need to be current NACADA members.
Thanks to those of you who have already sent notification to NACADA
of your campus awards given out this year. The recipients of these
campus advising awards have been listed at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/CampusAwards.htm
on the NACADA web site. There is a link on our home page to this
site as well as on the Awards web site on the "Cumulative Recipient
Lists" page.
The
Highlights are a monthly summary of NACADA news and events designed
to inform members via one consolidated e-mail.
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