Dear ArkAAN members,

I hope your semester is off to a great start and you are taking time to enjoy this beautiful weather. I know that everyone is busy with registration this time of the year. 

I want to make you aware that NACADA's Regional Vll conference will be held March 11-13, 2010 in Overland Park, Kansas. This is a nice drive for us living in Arkansas (especially with our travel budget cuts) and the date is before we all get crazy with registration. The deadline to submit proposals is December 1, 2009. All the important information can be found on the NACADA Region Vll website at:http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Regional_Divisions/region7/index.htm.

Our ArkAAn award winners this past Spring were Rosalyn Blagg from ASU Mountain Home for Outstanding Administrator and Trevor Francis, from U of A for Outstanding Advising. Both names and their packets will be submitted for awards at Regional. ArkAAn Best of State presentation to be presented at the Region 7 Conference in 2010 is Jeanne Mclachlin, Shane Barker, Trevor Francis: Recession Proof Careers: Advising Students for Allied Health Professions and Medical School. Congratulations to all of these ArkAAN winners. 

The NACADA Annual Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida Oct. 3-6, 2010. Start saving your nickels and dimes to attend this conference. If Nationals is too expensive to attend, please make every effort to attend the Regional conference along with our ArkAAN Spring conference. (More information coming about ArkAAN). 

Arkansas will be host to the Regional Vll conference in 2012. Start thinking of how you would like to help out.  

I do hope that you will consider submitting a proposal for the Kansas conference. Again, the deadline is December 1, so mark your calendars now. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. If I do not know the answer, I will find someone who does.  

Best wishes for a smooth, stress-free semester.

 

Becky Rasnick
NACADA Liaison
University of Central Arkansas
510-450-5218
rebekahr@uca.edu