Cindy Pavlowski, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Past Involvement in NACADA:

Years in NACADA: 4 years
Regional Activities/Offices Held, including accomplishments achieved while in office: Assisted with
program selection for regional conference.
National Offices Held and Accomplishments Achieved While in Office: none
Committee Activities and Accomplishments: none
Commission/Interest Group Activities and Accomplishments: Member, Advising Student Athletes Commission and the Commission on Undecided and Exploratory Students.
Other:

My qualifications to be commission chair include 10 years of collegiate advising as well as six years specifically working with student athletes. Having worked in both the academic and athletic environments, I have a clear understanding of the roles of college adviser and athletic adviser.  I understand the types of pressures both are working under to help student athletes be successful.

My goal as commission chair would be to provide a forum for commission members to voice concerns and share strategies as well as encouraging participation in conference presentations. I would solicit ideas from commission members as to what goals they would like the commission to achieve.

An organization exists for academic advisers (NACADA) and an organization exists for athletic academic advisers (N4A).  The Commission on Student Athletes needs to begin to better bridge these two groups. Much of our work overlaps, we all want students to succeed, how do we better work together to ensure success.