Note: The following message was e-mailed to commission members on March 14, 2006.

To: Faculty Advising Commission Members
From: Kathy Stockwell, Chair

Re: Commission Updates

Greetings to all! I hope everyone is having a great semester. It's hard to believe we are at the half-way mark. How time flies!

Here is a brief update on faculty advising related issues:

CONGRATULATIONS!
In the recent NACADA elections, several Faculty Advising Commission members were elected to leadership positions. Please join me in congratulating the following:

• Susan Campbell, University of Southern Maine--President
• Rich Robbins, Cornell University--Board of Directors
• Rhonda Sprague, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point--Faculty Advising Commission Chair
• Jennifer Joslin, University of Iowa--LGBTA Concerns Commission Chair
• Kris Rugsaken, Ball State University--Multicultural Concerns Commission
  Chair
• Joshua Smith, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis--Research Committee Chair

Thanks to all of them for their hard work on behalf of faculty advising!

UPCOMING EVENTS
Please check your calendars and consider attending the following events:

• Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising Seminar--June 22-23, Portsmouth, VA
• Academic Advising Summer Institute--June 25-30, Portsmouth, VA or July 30-August 4, Madison, WI
• NACADA National Conference--October 18-21, Indianapolis, IN

I hope many of you get the opportunity to attend these outstanding events! Details are at www.nacada.ksu.edu/ on the NACADA web site.

WHO'S WHO AMONG FACULTY ADVISORS
Don't forget to check out our Who's Who page to see what your fellow advisors are doing, and then submit information about a colleague, or yourself, for inclusion on the page. Don't be shy about sharing your successes with us! Criterion for submission can be found at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C15/C15-WhosWho-FacultyAdvisors.htm on the commission web site. I hope to hear from some of you soon!

HOT TOPICS DISCUSSION
If you have a hot topic you would like to discuss, please use our commission list serve to get a discussion going. The e-mail address for the list is FACULTYADVISORS@LISTSERV.KSU.EDU. Please note that you must be subscribed to this list serve to post discussion questions and responses. Instructions for subscribing are at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C15/listserve.htm.

Let's get some discussion going!

Kathy

Kathy Stockwell
Fox Valley Technical College
Associate Dean, Business Division
Faculty Advising Coordinator
stockwel@fvtc.edu
Phone: (920) 735-2428
FAX: (920) 735-4815