As a Summer Institute participant, you are given the opportunity to prepare and present (in your discussion group) an ACTION PLAN for solving an advising challenge on your campus. The scope of the action plan is left up to you. The scope may be as narrow as devising a new form or as broad as proposing a new model for delivery of advising on your campus or recommending the use of new technology. You will receive assistance with this project by attending relevant sessions, group discussions, and group & individual consultations with institute facilitators who have expertise in the area you have chosen.  Below are some topics and descriptions of Action Plans that have been proposed and developed at previous Summer Institutes. 

Action Plans - Some Issues Addressed 2004 Summer Institute

• Reorganization plan - from centralized system to faculty advising and advising center for undecided, conditional, and at-risk.
• Action plan - Integrating career life planning w/ Academic Advising within the college of Human Services.
• Action plan - Write a grant to fund additional support staff to assist the faculty with academic advising.
• Action plan - Develop a peer mentor/advisor program to support retention efforts
• Action plan - Using a first-time pre-advising survey to promote more Developmental Advising
• Action plan - Using a first-time pre-advising survey to promote more Developmental Advising
• Action plan - Implement developmental advising in the School of Nursing .
• Action plan - Using Coaching for more effective advising