NOTE: This message was sent to commission members on August 12, 2005.

TO: Faculty Advisors Commission Members
FROM: Kathy Stockwell, Chair
Date: August 12, 2005

Greetings to all!  I hope everyone had a relaxing summer and is ready to get back into the swing of things on campus.

As we look forward to a new year of advising, I am asking your help in sharing helpful hints or tips with your fellow advisors across the country. Do you have a particular method of advising that you find valuable? Do you have any tips for engaging the students in their own planning? How do you get to know your advisees? Do you use e-mail advising, and what makes it work? And so on. I would like to put together a newsletter featuring these tips and tricks that will help us all be more effective advisors.

If you have information you would like to share, please send it to me at stockwel@fvtc.edu by Friday, August 26. One brief paragraph of text per tip is all that is required. At a later date, we can expand on some of the more in-depth practices, but for now let’s concentrate on tips and tricks. Both the newsletter and these tips will also be posted to our commission web site for future reference.

Now is also a great time to think about nominating yourself or a fellow advisor for our “Who's Who Among Faculty Advisors” page. Visit the following link to view this Web page and see the suggested format for the postings— www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C15/resources.htm. We're anxious to read all about the wonderful people in faculty advising, so get those submissions in soon!

Thanks for your help — it is making us all better advisors!

Kathy

Kathy Stockwell
Faculty Advisors Commission Chair
stockwel@fvtc.edu
920-735-2428