Note: The following e-mail was sent to commission members on September 1, 2004.

To: Faculty Advisors Commission (FAC) Members
From: Tim Champardé, Chair

Greetings Colleagues!

As my term for serving as Chair of the Faculty Advisors Commission (FAC) comes to a close this fall, I have one final request for your help. Your input is vitally needed for a project that I will be assisting the new Chair of FAC, Kathy Stockwell, get started. We are interested in testing the waters for an idea we hope will energize interest in faculty issues among NACADA membership. It's tentatively being referred to as "Who's Who in Faculty Advising".

Our plan is to demonstrate what this might eventually look like in online form at the National Conference in Cincinnati. Whether this project gets moving or what shape it will take depends every bit on your feedback, and that of other folks we'll be talking to at the conference.

We would like to feature examples of excellence in faculty advising with pictures and stories of individuals who are doing great things. Examples may include notable individuals, like Dr. Richard Light from Harvard who helped give us a real boost last fall at the conference in Dallas — http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~rlight/bio.htm.

Other examples may include entire programs that are known for their quality of service in faculty advising, like the Advising Professional Development Program at Fox Valley Technical College in Wisconsin (www.fvtc.edu/tp2.asp?ID=Academic+Advising ) or the Master Advisor Program at Missouri State University (http://adc.missouristate.edu/facultyresources/13037.htm).

Current standards for this are pretty broad. This is not an award so there's no need for lengthy forms to be filled out. Anyone can offer up a person or program for the Who's Who, including themselves. There would be no mention of who nominated the person or program. It simply needs to be reasonably evident that, upon reading about the person or program, they are truly of high standard. What would be most helpful would be a brief description why it is believed this person or program is an example of excellence in faculty advising.

What I'm asking all of you is this:

1. What are your thoughts about this project?
2. Who on your campus would you offer as an example of someone to be included in our Who's Who in Faculty Advising?

That's it! Thanks so much for your generous gift of time and attention to this. We'd like to get your responses by September 15. To those of you going to Cincinnati--see you there. To those who can't make the conference, it has been a pleasure to serve as your Chair these past two years and I look forward to seeing you at some future event. Thank you all!

Tim

Tim Champardé, Faculty Advisor
Lansing Community College, PO Box 40010, Lansing, MI 48901-7210
champarde@YAHOO.COM, www.lcc.edu
517.483.1904
1.800.644.4522 ext. 1905