• MARCH 1 — E-mail notification due to CIGD Division Reps from Chair of Interest Group to confirm interest in seeking Commission status in 2009. (Final written proposals due May 1.) The Interest Groups for which initial interest in seeking Commission status this year was indicated in the post-conference reports are:
• Appreciative Advising Interest Group
• Advising High Achieving Student Interest Group
• MARCH 2 — Deadline for Commission Chairs to have summaries of proposal evaluations submitted to Annual Conference Chair (Jo Anne Huber). Questions? Contact Rhonda Baker (baker@ksu.edu) or Michele Holaday (mdh4848@ksu.edu).
• MARCH 2 — Deadline for 2009 National Awards Program nominations and/or applications
• MARCH 20-22 — 2009 Mid-Year Board of Directors and Council Meetings, San Antonio, Texas - Victor Macaruso and Jennifer Joslin, Division Reps, will attend from the CIG Division.

• ONGOING — Promote and solicit nominations for Service to Commission Award (if applicable). For nomination/submission procedures, visit www.nacada.ksu.edu/programs/Awards/CService.htm.

• APRIL 1 — 2009 Service to Commission Awards nomination deadline - all nomination materials/support letters due to Julia Wolf, Executive Office, from selection committee chairs via e-mail attachment in Word format.
• APRIL 7-15— Service to Commission Award nomination materials forwarded via e-mail attachment to Commission Award Selection Committees by Executive Office.
• APRIL 15 — Deadline for short "News & Updates" activity updates from Commission/Interest Group Chairs for June 2009 issue of Academic Advising Today . E-mail directly to Leigh Cunningham at leigh@ksu.edu.
• ONGOING — Individual Commission Award Selection Committees review nominations and determine final decision about awarding Service to Commission Award (due May 1).

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS, LINKS, AND SUGGESTIONS --

• E-mails to Unit Members — When submitting text for an e-mail to be sent to all members of your respective unit, please allow the Executive Office at least 2-3 days to send the messages. Keep this time frame in mind when including deadlines in your e-mail text and planning your unit activities accordingly. Also, when possible, these all-unit e-mails should not be sent more often than about once every 2 weeks.
• List Serve Instructions — If a member should contact you asking to be “subscribed” to or “unsubscribed” from your unit’s list serve, instructions for doing so are posted on the “E-mail List” web page on your unit’s web site.
• Awards Committee Members — If not already done so, please e-mail Julia with your list of Service to Commission Award Selection Committee members if an award is being offered by your commission in 2009.
• Post-conference reports — www.nacada.ksu.edu/CandIGDivision/Post-ConfReports/CIGDPostConfReports2008.htm. Perhaps you might like to review the goals and activities submitted by other CIG Chairs.
• 2009 CIGD Division meeting, San Antonio — tentative date for this meeting is Tues., September 29, 1:00-5:00pm.

• Check the general NACADA calendar for other dates of interest.

Please let Victor, Jennifer, or me know if you have any questions about these items. Thanks for all your efforts on behalf of your NACADA colleagues!

Julia