• NACADA DEADLINES
  • National Conference Presentation Proposals - February 8, 2005
  • Voting for NACADA Leadership - February 11, 2005
  • Membership Expiration Date for Some Members - March 1, 2005
  • 2005 Awards Call for Nominations - March 7, 2005
    
    
• NACADA EVENTS
  • Academic Advising Administrators' Institute - ENROLLMENT LIMITED! EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT EXTENDED TO JAN. 14 -- REGISTER TODAY!
  • Assessment of Academic Advising Institute - ENROLLMENT LIMITED!  EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT EXTENDED TO JAN. 14 -- REGISTER TODAY!
  • Effectively Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising Seminar - ENROLLMENT LIMITED! EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT EXTENDED TO JAN. 14 -- REGISTER TODAY!
  • Regional Conferences This Spring!
  • Academic Advising Summer Institutes - St. Paul, Colorado Springs
  • 2005 National Conference - Las Vegas
    
    
• NACADA RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS
  • Academic Advising News - The NACADA Newsletter Archives
  • Featured This Month in the Clearinghouse - Cross-Cultural Advising
  • NEW MONOGRAPH AVAILABLE NOW - Advising Transfer Students: Issues and Strategies
    
    
• ASSOCIATION GOVERNANCE
  • 2005 Leadership Election Information and Voting Procedures
  • Change in Co-chairs for Native American & Tribal College Interest Group
    
    
• OTHER
  • 2005 Awards Call for Nominations
  • Additions to Commission and Interest Group list serves Completed
  • NACADA Member Expertise Database
  • Advising in the Spotlight Articles
  • Your NACADA Membership May Expire Soon

There is still time to register for the Administrators' Institute to be held January 30 – February 1, 2005, in St. Pete Beach, FL. We are looking forward to another great Institute in the sun!

If you would like to hear about and exchange ideas focused specifically on issues facing academic advising administrators, we hope you will join us.

What better place to learn about Assessment than near the warm sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico! Join us for this working Institute to be held February 2 – 4, 2005, in St. Pete Beach, FL. There is still time to register.

We have had a great response for the Engaging Faculty Seminar to be held January 27– 28, 2005, in St. Pete Beach, FL. Enrollment is limited. If you plan to attend the Seminar, it is critical that you fax the Executive Office a copy of your registration form as soon as possible.

Take advantage of NACADA conferences near you, or fly off to another great part of the U.S. or Canada to meet new friends and colleagues.   For more detailed information about these Regional conferences, click here!

For the most complete consideration of advising available, you and/or your team should meet in either St. Paul, MN, or Colorado Springs, CO, at this year's week-long Summer Institutes.  Developing strong networks among colleagues at the Institutes will be only one of the benefits to you, your team and your program.  Expert faculty will share pertinent information in a variety of ways - through general sessions, workshops, topical sessions, and small group discussions.  You can't afford to miss this chance to make a difference at your institution through the knowledge you will gain. For more information visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/SummerInst/index.htm.

February 8, 2005, is the deadline to submit a presentation proposal for the Las Vegas conference - submit now to assure thorough consideration of your proposal!

Advisors, administrators, faculty, counselors, career development specialists, researchers, graduate students-we want to hear from you, whether you are a novice or an experienced presenter.

Being a presenter gains national exposure for your ideas, as well as your institution, and may help you secure funding to attend the conference.

NACADA's newsletter, Academic Advising News is published four times a year.  The next issue is scheduled for February, 2005.  Be sure to read the interesting advising articles and information about what is happening in the Association!  The link to past issues is http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Newsletter/archives.htm.

The new fabric of multiculturalism on our campuses may pose some very real challenges for advisors, but cross-cultural advising need not be fraught with pitfalls. In "East Meets West - Bridging the Academic Advising Divide"  http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/East-Meets-West.htm, Barbara Lamont draws on her experience advising Japanese students to provide cross-cultural advising suggestions that can help enrich the experience for both advisor and advisee.

Advising Transfer Students: Issues and Strategies, NACADA Monograph #12, is now available! This monograph identifies many of the issues related to transfer students and provides a wide range of potential services, programs, and other resources that serve to strengthen the overall higher education experience for transfers.To purchase a copy of Monograph #12, please complete an order form and fax it to the Executive Office. The order form link is: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/puborderform.pdf.

Copies purchased by members who attended the National Conference in Cincinnati will be sent by January 12.

Information on the 2005 NACADA Leadership elections is available at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Election/index.htm. It includes a complete slate of candidates, online voting procedures, and links to platform statements by the candidates.

All voting will be done online. Printed ballots will not be mailed for this election. The online voting system will be activated by 9:00 a.m. Central Time on Friday, January 14, 2005. The deadline to vote is by 9:00 a.m. Central Time on Friday, February 11. If you do not receive an e-mail with your personal login and password on January 14 for this election, please contact Julia Wolf (jqwolf@ksu.edu) at the Executive Office or call (785) 532-5717.

NOTE: Only individuals whose NACADA membership is current and PAID IN FULL as of Friday, January 14, 2005, will be eligible to vote in the 2005 leadership elections.

Please welcome Adrienne Thunder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as the new lead co-chair for the Native American and Tribal College Interest Group. Mark Bellcourt, who initiated the establishment of this IG and had served with Adrienne as the lead co-chair over the past couple of years, recently resigned as co-chair. Iona Black will assist Adrienne as co-chair for this interest group. Contact information for Adrienne and Iona can be found on the interest group's web site at www.nacada.ksu.edu/InterestGroups/C36/index.htm.

Complete NACADA Leadership lists can be found on the web at www.nacada.ksu.edu/AboutNACADA/orgdir.htm.

The 2005 Awards Call for Nominations. Printed booklets with nomination information and forms are no longer mailed to members. The deadline for receipt of nomination materials for most award categories is March 7, 2005.

Please closely review the applicable information in the 2005 Awards Call before submitting your final nomination materials. There have been changes in the criteria for certain awards.

At the National Conference in Cincinnati, many of you signed up for the commission and interest group list serves. The task of updating these list serves accordingly has been completed. For instructions on posting messages to the list serves, please visit www.nacada.ksu.edu/listserve/index.htm and click on the link for the applicable list serve(s). Instructions for subscribing/ unsubscribing to these list serves are also available. Thank you for your interest in and participation on these list serves! Remember, these list serves may not be used to promote commercial products or services.

NACADA members are encouraged to register their areas of advising expertise with the association. The Expertise Database will be referenced when the association seeks spokespersons for media requests; speakers/faculty for Institutes, Seminars, and Conferences; and authors or editors for publications. Members can strengthen their expertise through presentations at NACADA events, and writings for NACADA publications and the Clearinghouse. Registrants can update their entry as needed. To submit an entry to the Expertise Database, complete the form at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/expertise.htm.

NACADA seeks and encourages representation from diverse groups. This is your opportunity to highlight your expertise and bring it to the attention of those who select speakers and authors. Please be sure to encourage other NACADA members to register as well.

Check out the following articles related to advising. 

Kadison, Richard D.  (December 10, 2004).  "The Mental-Health Crisis:  What Colleges Must Do" in The Chronicle Review, (Section B of The Chronicle of Higher Education), Volume 11, Number 15, p. B20.

White, Eric R. and Cohen, Jeremy.  (Fall 2004).  "Creating Shared Student Responsibility for General Education" in Peer Review, Volume 7, Number 1, p. 8-10.

You may recommend (spotlight) articles recently published in national, regional or statewide non-advising publications for listing here by submitting information to the NACADA Executive Office via http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/advisingspotlight.htm. 

About 3,000 NACADA members have a membership expiration date of March 1, 2005. Paper renewal packets for these members will be mailed in January. Please complete and return the renewal form with payment to the Executive Office to ensure continued membership benefits.