William G. Hendey, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL

Past Involvement in NACADA:

Years in NACADA: 15 years

National Offices Held and Accomplishments Achieved While in Office:

Regional Activities/Offices Held, including accomplishments achieved while in office:

Committee Activities and Accomplishments:

Commission/Interest Group Activities and Accomplishments:

• Current member of Advising Administration Commission and Assessment of Advising Commission
• Current member of Theory and Philosophy of Advising Interest Group

Other:

In addition to my positions in Academic Counseling and Advising at SIUE, I have served on the following:

• Standards and Policies Committee
• Suspension Appeals Committee (Chair)
• General Education Committee
• Curriculum Council
• University Planning and Budgeting Council
• Financial Aid Appeals Committee
• President of the University Staff Senate

Platform Statement:

Though I have not in the past held leadership positions in NACADA, I have been profoundly interested in the work of NACADA over the years and have held leadership positions relative to academic advising. I have 31 years of experience in academic advising, first at Ball State University and then for the past 11 years at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). At Ball State I served as Director of a living-learning center for a time, and the academic advising component was a vital part of the program. Later I served as Assistant to the Dean of the Honors College and Coordinator of Honors Advising. At SIUE I served for 10 1/2 years as Assistant Director of Academic Counseling and Advising, which serves over 5,000 undeclared students, before becoming Acting Director, July 1, 2003 .

As Chair of the Advising Administration Commission I would focus in particular on two areas that I regard as integral to the future direction and development of the profession. First, I believe that enlightened leadership in academic advising is the key to effective advising services. The concept is easily stated but, in fact, highly complex. In general, though, I believe that the most insightful and productive advising administrators are individuals who have had broad and deep experience in academic advising. And they are individuals who possess all of the qualities that make for a really skilled and effective academic adviser. But of course there are other significant qualities, as well. The other area that I think is of extreme importance is advising assessment. We all know that we have to have assessment, not only because "everybody else is doing it," but primarily because it probably is the only way that we can actually improve our performance. Obviously assessment tells us whether we're accomplishing what we say we want to accomplish, but, at least as important as that, it also concentrates our attention on what we do and how we do it.