Working with students

Advising Specific Populations

• links to resources helpful in advising 40+ student groups (e.g., first-year, adult learners, probation students, pre-health, distance learners).

Resources helpful in advising students

• Academic Support Resources
• Associations with information related to advising 
• Breaking bad news to students
• Career Advising Resource Links
• College and university catalogs via the University of Texas
• Choosing classes via Duke University
• College and university advising web sites
• Communication and Listening Skills
• Counseling and Mental Health Issues
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Cultural (multicultural) issues in advising
• Decision-making
• Degree attainment goals via Pell Institute
• Developmental Advising
• Disruptive students
• Advisee e-folio
• Enrollment/Registration resources.
• The art of failing successfully
• Financial Aid and money management  
• Gamer Addiction
• Goal-Setting
• GPA Calculators   
• Student Health issues national study

• Icebreakers

• Student identity

• Student Intake Forms

• Intrusive Advising  

• Learning Communities

• Learning Styles web links

• Major exploration
• Memory aids
• Mental Health Issues
• Student Motivation
• Multicultural issues in advising
• New Student Orientation
• Placement tests
• Plagiarism
• Problem-solving strategies
• Publications and publishers
• Guide to writing reference letters for advisees
• Referral Resources
• Residence Life
• Use of social media in advising
• Spirituality on Campus
• Study Abroad links
• Structuring an Advising Session
• Suicide prevention
• Teaching virtual teamwork
• Time Management
• Transcript Evaluation
• Worth of a college education

Delivery Methods and Modes

• Advising organizational structures/models
• Advisor load & working with large case loads
• College Café classroom workshops  
• Developmental Advising
• Faculty Advising Issues
• One-on-one advising
• Group Advising
• Integrated Centers
  • Advising & Career
  • Advising & Academic /Learning Support
• Intrusive Advising
• Peer Advising Program links
• Professional Advisors
• Structuring an Advising Session
• Technology in advising
  • College/university advising podcasts

Ethics and Legal Issues

• Civility on campus

• Ethics in Advising
• Legal Issues in Advising

Advisor and System Related

Administrative and Professional Issues

• How to Become an Academic Advisor
  • conduct an advising job search
  • questions advising administrators ask in interviews
• New Academic Advisors
• Advising Administration
  • including a Primer for new Advising Administrators
• Advisor Load (student to advisor ratio)
  • Effective Ways to Deal with Large Advising Loads
• Advisor Training and Development
• Assessment of Advising
  • CAS Academic Advising Standards and Guidelines
  • Student Learning Outcomes
• NACADA Blog
• Budget & Funding Issues (including advising fees)
• Campus-based advising organization
• CAS Standards
• Career Advising
• Change
• Implementing a Common Reading
• Communication includes cross-generational & cross-cultural
• advisor competencies and steps to advisor certification
• Concept of Academic Advising
• Conflict Resolution
• Connecting advising with campus areas (30th anniversary series)
• Core Values of Academic Advising
• Cultural issues in advising
• Cuseo Collection via the University of Wisconsin
• Customer Service in Academic Advising
• Delivery of Advising Services (advising models)
• Downtime: The Crunch Is Over...Now What?
• Determining the Worth of an Advising Unit
• Early Alert Systems
• Effectiveness of Academic Advising via Assessment
• Email advising guidelines
• Generational issues in advising and in the workplace
• Guidelines for advisor notes
• Handbook - Creating an advisor handbook
• International - advising issues outside the U.S.
• How to conduct an advising job search
• Student Learning Outcomes and learning centered advising
• Mission and vision statements for academic advising
• Needs Assessment
• New Advisors
• New Student Orientation
• Office design resources
• One-stop-shop centers
• Working with Parents
• Using a Portfolio to Document Advisor Effectiveness
• Presentation Resources
• Professional development (also see Advisor Training)
• The Role of Advisors in Recruiting
• Reporting issues Academic vs. Student Affairs
• Research and grant writing web links
• Responsibilities/expectations of advisors and advisees
• Restructuring Advising Services
• Retention, persistence and completion in academic advising
  • Early Alert Systems
  • Exit Surveys
  • Probation issues
• Safety and crisis management issues
• Salary and advisor classifications (career ladders)
• Spelling of the word advisor
• Stress Management, Burn Out and Inspirational Resources
• Structuring an advising session
• Student engagement
• Student Services and Advising
• Student Use of Advising Services
• Syllabi for academic advising
• Techniques for drawing students to advising
• Women in Administration Issues

History, Theory, Philosophy, and Values

• Advising Definitions
• Advising Standards and Values
  • CAS Standards
  • Concept of Academic Advising
  • Core Values
• Chronology of Academic Advising
• History of Academic Advising and NACADA
• Importance of Liberal Arts
• How to develop a personal philosophy of advising
• Advising Theories and Approaches including developmental advising

   

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