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Advising Transfer Students Commission Post-Conference Reports
NACADA
Commission and Interest Group Division
2004
Post-Conference Unit Report
Commission:
Advising Transfer Students Commission
Chair:
Troy Holaday
Section
1: Identify the leadership within your unit.
List members
of your steering committees, committee members, task force members,
conference chairs, etc. & their emails.
| Name of Committee |
Name of Committee Member
|
Email |
| Web Presence Committee |
Sarina Swindell, Committee
Chair |
swindell@tarleton.edu |
| Region Liaisons |
Karen Thurmond (Region 3)
|
kthurmnd@memphis.edu |
| Region Liaisons |
Larry Ottinger (Region 5)
|
lottinge@bsu.edu |
| Region Liaisons |
Karey Sabol (Region 8) |
SabolK@sou.edu |
Section
2: Outline your annual activities as they relate to the NACADA missions
and strategies.
Mission 1:
Address the academic advising needs of higher education.
Strategies:
1-D
Provide comprehensive professional development opportunities to
the academic advising community. Identify, develop, and deliver
professional development activities and resources to meet the needs
of the academic advising community - including institutions, central
administrators, full-time advisors, faculty advisors, and peer advisors.
| Task (Activities Planned) |
Person/committee assigned the task
|
Target Date |
Date Completed |
Assess progress or completion |
| list serve Discussion Seeds
- A new topic for discussion is to be seeded each month. |
Seeders Committee: Brady Johnson,
Sarina Swindell, Camille Girardi, Carol Mrak, Mike McCaulley,
Virg |
2005-09-15 |
0000-00-00 |
The topic for November was seeded
as planned. Assessment of the success of this program will be
conducted via the list serve prior to the 2005 National Conference
in Las Vegas. |
Legislative
Initiatives Overview, 2003-2004 --The document, designed
to get advisors and administrators "up to speed" on federal
initiatives regarding transfer credit evaluation, was submitted
to the list serve, to the entire membership of the ATS Commission,
and to several Board Members is mid October. |
Troy Holaday |
2004-11-01 |
2004-10-19 |
The response has been very favorable.
At least one member has employed the report in conference with
the national Representative from his state/district. |
| Task Force for Drafting NACADA
Transfer Policy Guidelines -- Note that this group
is simply generating a draft that it will then submit to the
CIG leaders, and eventually the Council, for consideration.
The guidelines will address general issues only and not be prescriptive,
but rather suggestive of best practices in generating and publicizing
transfer policies. The goal is to create a resource for advisor/program
development. |
Task
Force Members:
Tom Avantz, Virginia
Mihalik, Camille Girardi, Heidi Koring, and Janice Williams |
2004-06-01 |
0000-00-00 |
The task force has been formed, but
has not yet conferred. |
Mission 2: Advance
the body of knowledge of academic advising.
No
Activity entered
Mission 3:
Champion the educational role of academic advising to enhance student
learning and development in a diverse world.
Strategies:
3-A
Identify and develop strategies for fostering collaboration with
various advising constituencies. Seek collaborative relationships
with academic and student services related associations, discipline
specific organizations, higher education associations, and accrediting
agencies to promote the importance of academic advising.
| Task (Activities Planned) |
Person/committee assigned the task
|
Target Date |
Date Completed |
Assess progress or completion |
| Joint Meeting with AACRAO Task Force
on Transfer |
Troy Holaday (until a liaison is recruited)
|
2004-09-01 |
0000-00-00 |
Presently seeking a liaison / task
force leader to organize this effort. |
3-B
Enhance NACADA's global visibility and credibility as the resource
for concerns and needs involving academic advising. Identify and
educate other professionals in higher education that NACADA has
valuable information to help institutions enhance student development,
student success, and institutional success through the dissemination
of credible and supported data.
| Task (Activities Planned) |
Person/committee assigned the task
|
Target Date |
Date Completed |
Assess progress or completion |
| Presentation at the annual Institute
for the Study of Transfer Students, Fort Worth, TX |
Troy Holaday, Mike McCauley |
2005-01-25 |
0000-00-00 |
The presentation proposal was submitted
on Nov. 4th, 2004. The overview of recent legislation mentioned
previously in this report serves as the backbone of the presentation,
and the document will be presented as having been developed
as a resource for NACADA. |
Mission 4 :
Affirm the role of academic advising in supporting institutional
mission and vitality.
No
Activity entered
Mission 5
: Promote the involvement of diverse populations in the Association.
No
Activity entered
Section
3: Issues/Items for consideration by the Division, Council or Board
of Directors.
| Title |
Details |
| Endorsement of the American Council
on Education's response to H.R.4283 |
A summary of recent legislation that
will potentially have a dramatic impact on transfer credit evaluation
was forwarded to several Board of Directors members for possible
action, either in endorsing the ACE response to Representative
McKeon's H.R.4283 or in issuing a separate statement from NACADA
itself. |
Section
4: List Volunteer Opportunities Available in your Unit.
| Title |
Details |
| Region 1 Liaison |
Liaisons serve as contact points for
members of the commission. As such, they are expected to cultivate
relationships with advisors of transfer students at other universities
within their region, and, if at all possible, attend their NACADA
regional conference. Duties are generally light for this position,
as the liasons are primarily used to speed up disemination of
information or ivestigative research processes. |
| Region 2 Liaison |
See description above for Region 1
Liaison. |
| Region 4 Liaison |
See description above for Region 1
Liaison. |
| Region 6 Liaison |
See description above for Region 1
Liaison. |
| Region 7 Liaison |
See description above for Region 1
Liaison. |
| Region 9 Liaison |
See description above for Region 1
Liaison. |
| Region 10 Liaison |
See description above for Region 1
Liaison. |
| AACRAO Liaison |
The commission is seeking a representative
within the AACRAO organization (a current member) who can (1)
establish contact with and report on the activities of the AACRAO
Task Force on Transfer Students, and (2) attend the AACRAO National
Conference and report on transfer-related presentations, discussions,
etc. |
| Funded Projects Committee
|
Given the recent restructuring of
the budget process for commissions, our commission is seeking
a group of individuals to serve as a think tank for generating
"big ideas," that cost money to enact, for promoting the Commission
and serving transfer advising. Currently, we are seeking a committee
leader and 3-4 members. |
Section
5: Summary of Annual Commission Meeting
Advising
Transfer Students Commission Meeting - Cincinnati National
Conference
Members present:
36
Non-commission members
present: 13
Total present: 49
Extended notes may
be found at: www.bsu.edu/web/00taholaday/NACADA/ATSCnotes.html
The primary elements
of the meeting included the roll call, overview of commission
sponsored presentations, recognition of award recipients from
the commission, overview of new developments in the CIG Division,
a short summary of "the year in transfer" - which included
a lively discussion of recent federal inititiaves, and recruitment
of volunteers for various new projects as outlined in the
report above. |
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