Faculty Biographies

Jennifer L. Bloom is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Master's degree program in the Higher Education & Student Affairs Program housed in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina. Prior to her appointment at the University of South Carolina in August, 2007, she served as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs & the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995.

Dr. Bloom is the current elected President of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) for the 2007-08 term. She serves on the Board of Directors of NACADA (2005-2008) and previously chaired the Advising Graduate & Professional Students Commission and the Member Career Services Committee. She received the NACADA Outstanding Advising Administrator Award in 2005 and University of Illinois' Campus Academic Professional Excellence Award in 2007.

Dr. Bloom has co-authored two books. The first book, Career Aspirations & Expeditions: Advancing Your Career in Higher Education Administration, was released in 2003 and co-authored by Nancy Archer-Martin. The second book, The Appreciative Advising Revolution, was released earlier this summer and it was co-authored by Bryant Hutson and Ye He. Her research interests include appreciative advising, academic advising, career paths in higher education administration, leadership, and change management.

Jayne Drake is an Associate Professor of English, the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, and the Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. As Vice Dean she is responsible for all academic matters, student services, programs, advising, and curricular initiatives for the College’s nearly 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Jayne is a “lifer” at Temple and has served in a number of administrative posts over the years, including Director of Academic Advising, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Dean for Student Services, and the Director of the Teaching Improvement Center, to name a few. She is passionate about both her undergraduate and graduate students and has been publicly acknowledged for outstanding teaching, the most recent recognition being the College of Liberal Arts “Excellence in Teaching” Award. Last month, Jayne was honored with Temple University’s “Faculty Advisor of the Year” Award. This year, she was also honored to be named Kansas State University’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2008.

As a member of NACADA, she currently sits on the Board of Directors and is the incoming Vice President of the Association. As a member of the NACADA Academic Advising Consultants and Speakers Service, Jayne travels nationally and internationally to deliver keynote addresses and conduct workshops on a number of advising-related topics, and she serves as a consultant and reviewer to a number of universities regarding the development and reorganization of advising services. She also chairs the Association’s Video Advisory Board charged with conceptualizing, developing, and producing NACADA’s Advisor Training Program.

Wesley (Wes) R. Habley has held numerous positions at ACT, Inc. and is currently the Principal Associate and Coordinator of ACT's Office of State Organizations. He received his BS in music education and M.Ed. in student personnel from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, and his Ed.D. from Illinois State University in educational administration. Prior to joining ACT, Habley served first as an academic advisor and later as the Director of the Academic Advisement Center at Illinois State. Habley also served as the Director of Academic and Career Advising at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Habley recently published two chapters in Fostering Student Success and a series of four reports based on ACT's national retention study, What Works in Student Retention? Habley is co-editor of the first and second editions of Academic Advising: a comprehensive handbook. He is the editor of the monograph on ACT's third, and author of monographs on ACT's fourth, fifth and sixth National Surveys of Academic Advising. He contributed chapters to Developmental Academic Advising and Faculty Advising Examined. Additional published material has appeared in the NACADA Journal, The Journal of College Student Personnel, NASPA Journal, NACADA Monograph Series, the Jossey-Bass New Directions Series, and several monographs published by the First Year Experience Program at the University of South Carolina.

Habley has delivered more than 400 presentations at meetings of professional associations and has served as a consultant or workshop leader at more than 125 colleges in the U.S., the Middle East, and Canada. He originated the NACADA Summer Institute on Academic Advising in 1987 and continues to serve on the faculty.

Habley is a charter member, past president and past treasurer of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). In 2006 Habley was named Director Emeritus of the Summer Institute and in 2007 the Summer Institute Scholarship was named in his honor. He is the recipient of NACADA's awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Academic Advising and Service to NACADA.

Margaret C. (Peggy) King is Associate Dean for Student Development at Schenectady County Community College, Schenectady, N.Y., where she provides leadership for the Division of Student Affairs as one of a team of three Associate Deans reporting directly to the President. In her position, she directs the Academic Advisement Center and supervises Counseling and Career and Employment Services. She received her BA degree in history from Ursinus College (PA) and her MS and Ed.D. degrees from the University at Albany (NY). Prior to her work at SCCC, Peggy was Asst. Director of Counseling at Ocean County College (NJ).

 

A founding member of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), Peggy was President from 1991 – 1993. She has been a faculty member for the Summer Institute on Academic Advising since its inception in 1987, served on the faculty of the first Advising Administrators Institute, and serves as a consultant on academic advising and student affairs for both two- and four-year colleges and universities. In her consulting role, Peggy has delivered numerous keynote speeches, facilitated many workshops and has spent several days at institutions helping assess and revise services for students.

Marsha Miller, a NACADA member since 1988, joined the NACADA Executive Office staff in 2002 as Research Coordinator and now serves as NACADA's Assistant Director for Resources and Services. 

Marsha was a peer advisor in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  She earned a Master of Arts degree in Learning Disabilities at the University of Iowa and a Master's degree in Counseling from Emporia State University. Marsha worked at Cloud County Community College for fourteen years in various capacities. She taught developmental skills and education courses, served as ADA compliance officer, advised education majors and undecided students, and was Director of Student Services at a branch campus. Upon completion of her duties as Chair of the faculty committee charged with restructuring Cloud's advising and academic support services, Marsha was appointed as the first director of Cloud's Advising Center that received the NACADA Outstanding Advising Program award and the Noel-Levitz citation for Excellence in Student Retention.

Marsha has presented at national conferences of various student affairs organizations, published articles, served as an advising consultant, received outstanding teaching awards, and co-authored chapters in the NACADA monographs Advising as a Comprehensive Campus Process and Advisor Training: Exemplary Practices in Developing Advisor Skills.  

Rich Robbins received his B.A. in Psychology from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. in General Experimental Psychology from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno. Rich served as a full-time psychology/behavioral sciences faculty member for four years, followed by a move into higher education administration and adjunct teaching for the past 12 years. His initial exposure to academic advising came as a Graduate Assistant Advisor while at West Chester University. Rich has developed advising programs at two separate institutions and headed advising programs at four institutions, receiving the NACADA/ACT Outstanding Institutional Advising Award in 1998 and the NACADA Research Grant Award in 1999 as well as several campus advising awards. He has served as Chair of the Kansas Academic Advising Network, Chair of the NACADA Research Committee, and has been a member of numerous NACADA task forces, advisory boards, and committees. He is a past member of the NACADA Journal Editorial Board and a current member of the NACADA Board of Directors. In addition, he serves as chair of the NACADA Summer Institute Advisory Board, and is a member of the NACADA Academic Advising Speakers and Consultants Service, having performed consultations at ten institutions over the past seven years. Rich previously served as the elected NACADA Administrative Division Representative and member of the NACADA Council. He was a facilitator at the first two NACADA Administrators’ Institutes, co-chaired the first NACADA Assessment Seminar in 2004 and served as a faculty at the 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Assessment Institutes, and was a faculty member at the 2006 and 2007 NACADA Summer Institutes. Rich has over 80 presentations at professional conferences and numerous NACADA Journal book reviews and articles.  In 2004 he served as editor for the NACADA monograph Giving Advice to Students: A Road Map for College Professionals, and is a co-author of the 2005 NACADA CD Guide to Assessment in Academic Advising . Rich also serves as a manuscript reviewer for the peer-reviewed Journal of College Student Retention and regularly acts as a professional reviewer for textbooks in various areas of psychology. His teaching interests include introductory psychology, health psychology, medical sociology, research methodology, and parapsychology, while his areas of emphasis in academic advising include evaluation and assessment, retention, undecided students, high-achieving students, research methodology, and grant writing. And, by the way, he is a black belt in taekwondo.

Kathy Stockwell, Associate Dean, Business, Health and Service Division and Faculty Advising Coordinator at Fox Valley Technical College, has been a faculty member in the Business Technology area for 25 years, a faculty advisor for 18 years and currently advises students in two accelerated evening programs.  Stockwell was involved with the original development of FVTC’s faculty advising guidelines and is currently working with a task force to implement an effective assessment process for their faculty advising program.  In addition, she helped design and has recently revised the 12-module faculty advising training program used at her institution.  Stockwell received the FVTC Outstanding Advisor Award in 1998 and received a NACADA Outstanding Advisor Award the same year. She has been actively involved in NACADA since 1999.  She has served on the Faculty Advising Task Force, as chair of the Faculty Advising Commission, as the appointed CIG Division representative on the Council, on the Annual Conference Advisory Board, on the New Leader Orientation Task Force, is a consultant for the NACADA Consultants and Speakers Service, is the chair for the Faculty Advising Seminar, serves as a Summer Institute Faculty member, and was recently elected to a three-year term on the NACADA Board of Directors.