NOTE: This message was e-mailed to commission members on March 8, 2005.

Greetings, fellow administrators!

I hope that some of you are joyously preparing for spring break and can get to warmer (or cooler) climates to play! Some of us are wondering where the time went so quickly and are thinking that summer/fall pre-registration is right around the corner! Whatever you are thinking, do it with a smile so folks will wonder what you are up to!

UPCOMING NEWS/DEADLINES:
NACADA's call for award nominations closed on March 7. hope you were able to celebrate someone's achievements at your institution by nominating him/her!

Around the end of March, the Executive Office will send letters to those who submitted conference proposals and apprise them of the status. We had a "bumper crop" of proposals this year --- must be something about going to Las Vegas that got the "juices" flowing! We had 54 proposals to review for the Advising Administration tract and could select five to be commission-sponsored. I'm most appreciative of Susan Campbell, Shannon Williams, Cindy Iten, and Jayne Drake for reviewing these and evaluating them so I could summarize and determine the submission status. All this had to be done within a 5-day timeframe! Good luck to all of you who have submitted proposals.

REGIONAL MATTERS:
Some NACADA regions are hosting conferences still through spring. Please be sure, if you are attending one, to let your colleagues know about our Advising Administration Commission and how to join us. We have a lot of members with great experience who are willing to share and network, especially with our newer administrators.

ADMINISTRATORS' TIPS:
I've been trying to post topics by month that are of interest to a broad section of administrators. I really do need your suggestions of some topics to carry us throughout the year. Please send me your topics of interest as soon as you think of one! To review the topics already posted, please visit our commission's "Resources" web page at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C05/C05-Resources-Tips.htm.

For March, our tips should focus on "What do you or your advisors do to encourage students to take responsibility for their degree progress?" This topic popped up on the list serve with a question about a type of "waiver" form or "commitment" form. What ways do you encourage students about this? Please send your tips to me soon. (Also note that whenever I post tips to the web I include the contributor's name, institution, and e-mail address. If you want to post anonymously that's ok -- you just need to let me know that when you e-mail me.)

PARTING WORDS:
"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality". John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th U.S. President (from my daily online Ragan Motivational Resources)

Happy Spring!

Linda

Linda Chalmers
Advising Administration Commission Chair (04-06)
Executive Director
Office of Transitional Student Advisement Services (OASIS)
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Phone 210-458-6325 or 4302; Fax 210-458-4303
Linda.Chalmers@utsa.edu