Note: The following message was e-mailed to commission members on January 19, 2007.

To: Small Colleges and Universities Commission Members
From: Julie Stockenberg, Chair

Dear Small Colleges and Universities Commission Members,

Can you believe that the time is already here? The deadline for proposals for the 2007 NACADA Annual Conference in Baltimore is February 10th. The theme for this year's conference is "Advisors as Navigators: From Orientation to Graduation and Beyond".

It is vitally important that we continue to create a small college "track" of sessions so that our NACADA Annual Conference will meet the needs of our Small Colleges/Universities attendees. If any of you have interest, but are hesitant to do a session alone, please e-mail the commission listserve and we'll connect people with one another. Here are the topics that we brainstormed:

Proposed Topics/Ideas for Sessions at NACADA 2007

• One-stop Counseling/Learning Centers and Hybrid (Faculty + professional advisors) Advising Models
• Helping Students to Learn to be Better Advisees
• The Advising Syllabus
• Using BlackBoard (or other course management systems) to create advising “courses”
• Discussing faculty workload and faculty equity issues as advising as teaching and learning activities become more common
• Measuring learning outcomes of advising
• Dealing with Parents—Helping Students and Parents Develop Students’ “Independence Factor”
• Instituting Change at Small Colleges as it relates to advising as teaching and learning
• Dealing with Sophomore Issues
• Undeclared/Undecided/Exploratory issues for second-year students
• Should the concept of frontloading orientation and the first-year be expanded to include the second year
• Introducing Advising Issues into New Faculty Orientation/Workshops for new faculty
• Making Connections Between Majors and Careers (e.g. through Major, Minor, Etc. Fairs)

Don't forget to look at NACADA's advice for proposals and tutorial on the conference web site!

Remember, the Commission is able to sponsor sessions. Please give us a good pool from which to choose our sponsored sessions!

Best,

Julie

Julie T. Stockenberg
Director, First-Year and Sophomore Studies and Advising
Colorado College, Learning Commons
14 E. Cache La Poudre, Col. Springs, CO 80903
1-800-858-7545

jstockenberg@coloradocollege.edu