Dr. Charlie Nutt
NACADA Executive Director

Charlie L. Nutt, Ed.D. will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2014 NACADA Middle East Conference.  He is elated to continue to take part in NACADA's efforts to expand the outreach of academic advising to regions all over the world.  Dr. Nutt was appointed as the Executive Director of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising in October 2007.  Prior to this he served as the Associate Director of the Association for five years.  Additionally, he was also Vice President for Student Development Services at Coastal Georgia Community College for nine years and Assistant Professor of English/Director of Advisement and Orientation for six years.  He received his A.A. from Brunswick College, B.S.Ed. from the University of Georgia, M.Ed. and Ed.D. in Higher Educational Leadership from Georgia Southern University.

Nutt has had vast experience in education.  In addition to his fifteen years as a teacher and administrator at Coastal Georgia Community College, where he originated the college advisement center and orientation program that was awarded a Certificate of Merit by NACADA in 1995, he has taught English in grades 9-12, served as a department chair and assistant principal in a high school, served as Director of Development and Admission at a private K-12 institution.   Presently, he teaches graduate courses in the College of Education in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology. He has also been instrumental in the development of the NACADA/K-State graduate certificate in academic advising and several other NACADA professional development initiatives.

He served as conference chair for the 1994 Region IV Regional Conference and served on the NACADA Executive Board as Region IV Representative 1994-1996 and as Chair of the Two-Year College Commission 1996-99.  He has served on the NACADA Awards Committee for five years and on several other ad hoc committees as appointed by the President.  He was the national conference chair for the NACADA 2000 Conference in Orlando and served as President-Elect of NACADA for 2001-2002. He was the 2001 recipient of the NACADA Pacesetter Award.  He also authored a chapter in the NACADA/Jossey-Bass handbook published in Fall 2000, a chapter in the NACADA monograph Advisor Training: Exemplary Practices in the Development of Advisor Skills, and co-authored the NACADA Advising Assessment Guide.

Nutt has presented at numerous state, regional, national, and international conferences on the topics of student success, academic advising, institutional effectiveness and assessment, retention, and advisor training and development. In addition, he has worked with numerous colleges and universities in conducting an evaluation or audit of their advising and student services programs as well as serving as a keynote speaker for in-service programs and conducting faculty training programs on many campuses.