Advising High Achieving
Students Interest Group
Post-Conference Reports
NACADA
Commission and Interest Group Division
2004
Post-Conference Unit Report
Interest
Group: Advising High Achieving Students Interest Group
Chair:
Marion Schwartz
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 |
| Steering Committee |
Victoria McGillin |
vmcgilli@acunix.wheatonma.edu
|
| Steering Committee |
Iona Black |
iona.black@yale.edu |
| Steering Committee |
Marion Schwartz,
Chair |
mxs5@psu.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-A
Identify, prioritize, and address critical issues facing academic
advising. Through surveys and needs assessments, identify the issues
facing academic advising in higher education and propose methods
for addressing these issues - from recognition of advising as a
critical component of student success to the recognition of advisors
as critical to the educational/developmental process.
| Task (Activities Planned) |
Person/committee assigned the task
|
Target Date |
Date Completed |
Assess progress or completion |
| Elicit and share examples of effective
undergraduate research programs, including planning, funding,
faculty involvement, student placement, etc. |
Cathy Sindt |
2005-09-15 |
0000-00-00 |
Cathy has received several responses
on the list serve. |
1-B
Collect information about the environments in which academic advising
operates. Through surveys, focus groups or other means, determine
how academic advising best operates in higher education and determine
if success is determined by particular variables - delivery model
by institutional type, intrusiveness, processes for specific populations,
etc.
| Task (Activities Planned) |
Person/committee assigned the task
|
Target Date |
Date Completed |
Assess progress or completion |
| Survey the models for honors programs
represented among our members through the list serve, collect
information on their effectiveness. |
Janet Media |
2005-09-15 |
0000-00-00 |
|
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 |
| Find ways to involve faculty in and
equip them for advising high achieving students. Use list serve
to gather interested membership. |
No one yet assigned. |
2005-09-15 |
0000-00-00 |
|
Mission 2 :
Advance the body of knowledge of academic advising.
Strategies:
2-A
Promote, support, and conduct research related to the enhancement
of academic advising through further understanding of the student,
the campus environment, advising processes, or other related areas.
| Task (Activities Planned) |
Person/committee assigned the task
|
Target Date |
Date Completed |
Assess progress or completion |
| Explore the ways high achieving students
cope with failure, and suggest effective strategies for helping
them. Nancy will solicit members of the list serve for examples
and ideas. |
Nancy Everson |
2005-09-15 |
0000-00-00 |
|
Mission 3 :
Champion the educational role of academic advising to enhance student
learning and development in a diverse world.
No
Activity entered
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.
No Issues.
Section
4: List Volunteer Opportunities Available in your Unit.
| Volunteer Opportunity |
Details |
| Coordinator of Web site |
Collect useful links for those working
with high achieving students, work with technical support to
create effective resource. |
Section
5: Summary of Annual Interest Group Meeting
NACADA
Commission and Interest Group Division 2004 Post-Conference
Unit Report:
Advising High Achieving
Students Interest Group Chair: Marion Schwartz
Approximate Number
of Interest Group Members in Attendance: about 35
Summary
of Annual Meeting at National Conference
We introduced ourselves
to get a sense of our various institutions and responsibilities.
We represent large and small schools, elite and open-enrollment,
two- and four-year. We are faculty, advisers, and academic
administrators. Then we raised issues that concern us, and
promised to use the list serve to start working on some of
these issues.
Critical
Issues of Concern or "Hot Topics" Identified: We
are concerned about developing and administering honors programs,
including recruitment, funding, diversity, research, faculty
involvement, administrative attention, outside resources,
public relations. We are also concerned about our students,
about finding appropriate challenges for those who have not
been challenged before, about their academic versus occupational
goals, about supporting those who are new to failure, about
having them focus without becoming narrow, about adjusting
to American society if they are international, about dealing
with competition, gender issues, stress.
Unit Goals
and Objectives for Next Year: We would like to use
the listserv for discussion of the topics above, and eventually
produce a panel discussion or journal article by next year's
meeting. Janet Media will elicit comments about honors administration.
Kathy Sindt will do the same for undergraduate research. Carolyn
Ostrander will reach out to Region I with the idea of cultivating
conversation and presentations in that region.
Future Activities
Planned: We will use the list serve more actively,
do a hot topics session next year, work on the Web site, and
elicit presentations from a wider audience.
Volunteer
Opportunities Available Within the Unit: Web site
research, topic leaders.
Members
Serving this Unit (committee members, liaisons, etc.):
Marion Schwartz, chair. Victoria McGillin and Iona Black,
co-chairs. Carolyn Ostrander, liaison to Region I.
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