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At
the Advising Administration Commission meeting in October 2004,
the members attending endorsed the suggestion that a portion of
our former commission newsletter be brought back to life. That newsletter,
originally authored by member and former chair, Susan Campbell,
had a section on "best practices" of administrators. Seeing that
we all have busy work and personal lives, we opted to just focus
on "administrators' tips sheets" as posted below. Hopefully this
will be a source of inspiration and networking as we grow these
tips throughout the year. If you would like to contribute a tip,
please contact Linda
Chalmers, Advising Administration Commission Chair, by e-mail
at Linda.Chalmers@utsa.edu
or by fax, 210-458-4303. Thank you!
Advising
Administrators' Tips
Subject:
"Hot topics" identified
at the 2005 NACADA
pre-conference Administrator's Seminar at the national conference
in Las Vegas. (November 2005)
Subject:
Orienting/Advising
Freshmen
- How do you manage the millennial students' parents/family involvement
in advising without alienating the parents or intimidating the students? (July
2005)
Subject:
Considering
a retreat with your advising staff and not sure what to do?
(July 2005)
Subject:
Group
Advising
— What is your opinion on individual academic advising
sessions versus group academic advising? If you use one of
these more often than the other, please give reasons and
examples when possible. (June-July
2005)
Subject:
"Ethics"
in advising — Can you teach someone "ethics"? What do you
advise your staff when their personal ethics/values bump up against
the "advising community ethics/values"?
(May 2005)
Subject:
"What
do you or your advisors do to encourage students to take responsibility
for their degree progress?"
(March 2005)
Subject:
"How
do you reward your advisors/staff when you don't have money for
merit increases?" (February 2005)
Subject:
Promoting a climate
of cooperation and motivation for your staff, especially with the
onslaught of the new semester's registration/first week of classes
(January 2005)
This
subject was this commission's "Hot Topic" at the 2004 NACADA conference.
The following tips were compiled from the panel discussion and interaction
with the audience. By the way, did you know there are over 700,000
web search references related to this topic? We talk a lot about
it; now what can we do?
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