NOTE: This message was e-mailed to commission members on May 9, 2005.

It is my pleasure to announce that Alice Reinarz has been selected to receive the 2005 NACADA Service to Commission Award for the Advising Administration Commission. This award was established to recognize individuals who have provided outstanding service, leadership, and commitment to a particular Commission within the Association in support of its efforts to enhance the development of students. With that in mind, I'm sure that you will agree that Alice is very deserving of this award.

Alice will be formally presented with this award at our annual commission meeting held during the national conference in Las Vegas this fall (time and date TBA). Please join me in congratulating Alice Reinarz on this award! She can be reached at areinarz@oar.tamu.edu.

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Other bits of interest....

In preparation for the Las Vegas Conference, you will see in the upcoming literature that there are no "hot topics" discussions for this year. We've had an abundance of proposals selected for presentation and have given up these time slots to allow for more presentations. Be sure to get your conference registrations in as early as possible!  For the registration form and information, visit www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2005/index.htm.

Our "Administrators Tips" resource page has been lacking suggestions over the past month from you, the members, who benefit from this resource. To get things rolling again, does anyone have some tips to offer about "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"? The "Tips" page is a resource for YOU and can be found on our commission web site at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C05/C05-Resources-Tips.htm. Please send your tips on this topic (or one posted prior to this) or some suggested topics for which I could ask for tips!

Many of the state legislatures are meeting and enacting laws that impact higher education in the state. One such law being considered by the Texas legislature is requiring all persons in the job of academic advising to have at the minimum a Bachelor's degree and to complete an
institution-wide training program. If you have laws in your states being considered that directly impact academic advisors, please let me know (Linda.Chalmers@utsa.edu). We often times think we are the only ones encountering issues that have been thrust at us and we can find solace and solutions when others have encountered the same challenges.

Cheers and Best Regards,

Linda

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Linda Chalmers
Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Office of Academic Support and Undergraduate Studies

Office of Transitional Student Advisement Services

University of Texas at San Antonio
210-458-6325 or 4302; fax 210-458-4303
Linda.Chalmers@utsa.edu