Eligibility:

1. Any individual currently serving as an advising administrator and employed by a regionally accredited post-secondary institution may be nominated.  NACADA membership is not required but is highly encouraged.
2. Current members of the Board of Directors and Council are not eligible for consideration for these advising awards. After the member's term is over, s/he can be nominated.
3. Previous Outstanding Advising Administrator Award winners are not eligible. 
4. Previous Certificates of Merit recipients are eligible only if a minimum of five years has elapsed since the certificate was awarded and the nomination contains substantial new information.
5. Previous Outstanding New Advisor or Outstanding Advising Award winners or Certificate of Merit recipients may be considered for Outstanding Advising Administrator Awards or Certificates of Merit if a minimum of five years has passed since receiving the original award.
6. Previous Regional award winners are eligible to apply for Global Awards, though the application cannot simply be duplicated, rather it must address the Global Award specifically.
7. Nominees for the Outstanding Advising Administrator Award must have served as advising administrators for a minimum of three years (36 months) based on the calendar year calculated from the time of submission (April 2023). 
8. Only one nominee per category from each institution will be considered.

Criteria:

The Selection Committee evaluates on the evidence of qualities and practices that distinguish the nominee as an outstanding advising administrator including: 

Outstanding Advising Administrator Award Rubric
 

Submission Procedures:

Nominations must contain adequate factual or narrative material that describes the extent to which an individual meets the Outstanding Advising Administrator criteria. Include the following items and use objective data to support the nomination: 

1. A completed Nomination Submission.
2. A summary of the nominee's qualifications. Here, the nominator summarizes the extent to which the nominee meets the award criteria, citing letters of support, data, or other materials illustrative of exemplary performance as an advising administrator.
3. Nominee resume or vitae.  Please limit to materials that directly pertain to academic advising and/or advising administration, presenting relevant information from the nominee's overall resume/vita.  Please include a current job position description or list of job responsibilities.
4. A personal advising administration philosophy statement by the nominee.
   1. Resources for developing a personal advising philosophy
5. Appendices that support the nominator’s summary (item 2), such as:
   1. Representative materials developed by the nominee such as evidence of training provided, handouts for advisors or faculty, program/service descriptions, and any other advising administration documentation created by the nominee that is further evidence of outstanding work.
   2. Letters of support from students, direct reports, campus colleagues, or supervisors.
   3. Other pertinent information from the nominator.

Appendices should be limited to 40 pages. Please upload your appendices as one pdf even though the online system will allow you to submit more than one attachment. 

*Nominations must include only original documentation prepared specifically for the NACADA Awards Program. Materials intended for other award programs will not be considered.