2008 NACADA Academic Advising Summer Institute

July 27- August 1

Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas, will be the 2008 site of the intensive, week-long Summer Institute, centered around the goal of exploring all aspects of academic advising and then developing practical, individualized Action Plans for enhancement of academic advising on your campuses.

Here are just a few of the many topics to be covered: Advising and Retention, Advising as Teaching, Delivery/Organization of Advising, Ethical Considerations, Faculty Advising, Advising Undecided Students, Tools for Assessment, Advising At-Risk Students, Advisor Training & Evaluation, Legal Issues for Advising, Advising First-Year Students, Advising Administration and Advising Students in Distress.  

The Institue is designed for:  

• Teams or individuals from an institution desiring to enhance campus advising services
• Academic advising campus task force members
• Advising program directors
• Campus administrators, including deans or vice presidents with responsibility for advising

To review special benefits to your program and the schedule of topics, the list of Institute faculty, and to register for an Institute, see the Summer Institute Webpage.

The 2008 NACADA Awards Program Selection Committee is pleased to announce the second round of winners for the Wesley R. Habley Summer Institute Scholarship.  Patricia Beagle of the University of Southern Indiana and Nathan Vickers of the University of Texas at Austin were both chosen as recipients and will attend the Academic Advising Summer Institute in Austin, Texas on July 27-August 1, 2008.  Summer Institute Scholarships are presented as a professional development experience to selected NACADA members who demonstrate involvement in national, regional, state and/or local advising organizations and exhibit the potential for national leadership roles.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A Live Internet-broadcast Webinar Event

Save Time and Energy: Utilize Existing Resources for Advisor Training and Development

If you don’t have funds for summer travel, you’ll definitely want to join us on August 12 for the first offering in our 2008-2009 Webinar series! 

Are you an individual advisor seeking budget-conscious ways to enhance your own professional development? Are you an advising administrator responsible for the training and development of advisors in your unit or at your institution? Are you looking for creative ways to use existing professional development resources on your campus? Then this event is for you!

The Registration Brochure was bulk mailed last week to everyone who received these Highlights. Allow up to three weeks for delivery - in the meantime, the brochure is available online now. It has details on Pre-Conference Workshops, hotel reservations, airline and AVIS discounts, optional tours, a networking opportunity for new advisors, both keynote speakers, and highlights of events.

The Conference has two outstanding keynote speakers. On Wednesday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. is LaDonna Gatlin. She literally grew up on stage singing with her brothers - the legendary Gatlin Brothers. She chose to “sing a different song” apart from her brothers, empowering people to “sing their own song” as well. She educates, inspires and entertains!

B. Joseph White (President, University of Illinois) is our second keynote speaker, on Thursday, October 2 at 8:30 a.m. White took office as the 16th president of the University of Illinois on Jan. 31, 2005. White has written, taught and lectured extensively on leadership, management, and organizational matters. He is the author of The Nature of Leadership: Reptiles, Mammals, and the Challenge of Becoming a Great Leader (AMACOM, 2007).

A good way to get involved and meet new people is to volunteer for a couple of hours. Sign up by contacting Pam Rodriguez: plewisrodriguez@mccneb.edu.

The brochure lists over 400 individual sessions sorted by advising tracks, so you can find presentations relating to your advising interests. Here are a few sample program titles on current advising topics:

• Proactive Integrated Advising: Collaborative Advising from Community College to Graduate School
• Advising 2.0: Engaging Students with Collaborative Online Tools
• The Probation Process – a Student-Focused Responsibility
• The Changing View: Advising across Generations
• E-Mail is for Old People: Wikis, Blogs, and Social Networking Oh My

Preorder your copy of the new Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook (2nd Ed.) when you register for the annual conference.  You may choose to pick up your copy of this new advising resource at the annual conference in Chicago.  Authors of this book will be available to autograph your copy from 7:15-8:30 a.m. on Friday, October 3, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago Riverside Center. 

The new Academic Advising Handbook is available at a cost of $50/copy when you preorder with your conference registration. This new edition builds upon the 1st edition of the Handbook. In the new 2nd edition:

• George Kuh reflects on “Advising for Student Success” as he provides data that indicates:
  • what advisors need to know about student success
  • what students say about advising
  • five principles for effective academic advising
• Susan Campbell provides a roadmap to define the vision, mission, goals, and objectives needed to lay the foundation for the effective assessment of academic advising.
• John Schuh explains how we can determine what students learn from academic advising.
• Marti Hemwall delineates three steps that are taken on campuses that realize the potential of faculty advising while Casey Self outlines the strengths and challenges faced by professional advisors. Jayne Drake discusses the importance of recognition and reward to quality advising.
• Mike Leonard discusses the pros, cons, cautions, and future trends in technologies and advising applications.
• Tom Brown and Pat Folsom outline the conceptual, relational and informational issues surrounding effective advisor training and development. 
• Jennifer Bloom discusses a seven-step “moving on” model advisors can use to help graduating students successfully transition.
• College administrators, including a president and provost, reflect on the importance advising plays on a variety of campuses. 

Click here for the conference registration and book order form. 

NACADA will host its first Silent Auction at the Annual Conference in Chicago. All proceeds from the auction will be used to fund NACADA region conference scholarships for graduate students. If you would like to donate an item to this Silent Auction, please complete this form and fax it (785/532-7732) to the NACADA Executive Office by August 15, 2008. 

You must be willing to bring your donated item with you to Chicago. Those donating items should bring them to the area near the NACADA booth at the Hyatt Regency Riverside Center. A receipt for your donation will be provided to you. 

Thank you for your support of this first endeavor. We hope this will be a great way for people to mingle, bid on some great gifts, and support our graduate students who are pursuing career goals in the field academic advising. If you would like to volunteer to assist at the Silent Auction with set-up, security, and check-out while you're at the Conference or if you have any questions, contact Bev Martin at bmartin@ksu.edu.

Begin planning now for Fall Professional Development opportunities on your campus!

During our first two Webinar seasons - on large campuses and small ones - at 2-year and 4-year institutions - academic advisors and advising administrators all around the globe found the Webinar format to be "ideal" for creating and sharing professional development opportunities. (Read some of their responses.)

Advising-related topics for Fall 2008 include how to make the best use of existing resources for professional development, planning for a career in academic advising, communication techniques, and ways to contribute to the body of research in the field of advising. View broadcast dates and titles. 

The Webinar format is especially useful for stimulating dialogue between faculty advisors, full-time advisors and advising administrators at the unit, department or campus-wide level. All you need is a meeting room with an Internet-connected computer and projection capability.  Participants from previous events recommend that you also consider designating a facilitator and planning time for discussion before and after the broadcast.  Handouts will be provided by each of our Event Presenters.

Participation is limited by our Service Provider to the first 200 registrants, so don't delay - mark your calendars and secure your funding TODAY!  Register for three or more events and SAVE! 

Would you like to propose a topic for a Webinar? 

The Webinar Advisory Board would like to hear what topics YOU would like to see presented in this format and, they would also like you to see what considerations will guide their recommendations for future topics. Review their rubric and submit your ideas. 

We are excited to announce the location and dates for our Winter Professional Development Institutes and Seminar. We hope you will join us in Clearwater Beach, Fla.! Plan now for these exciting events:

Seminar on Technology (specifics available in mid-July) - February 12-13, 2009

Academic Advising Administrators' Institute - February 15-17, 2009

Assessment of Academic Advising Institute - February 18-20, 2009

Hotel information is available out on our Website now; fees and registration form will be available mid-July; find links to all three events on the NACADA homepage. We look forward to seeing you in Florida next winter!

The National Academic Advising Association has an opening in the Executive Office for Associate Director for Programs, which is a new position. For information on qualifications, duties, and application procedures, please refer to our Website at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/PositionAnnouncements/EO/Index.htm. Kansas State University is an equal opportunity employer.

Information is now available on the 2009 NACADA Leadership elections, including a list of positions being elected, eligibility criteria, position overviews, general election information, and an online nomination form. Election information and printed nomination forms will also be available in the NACADA booth in the Exhibits area at the Annual Conference in Chicago as well as in the back of the Conference Program. Nomination forms can be submitted either online, at the Conference, by fax or mail. All nominations will be due to the Executive Office by Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.

If you are interested in becoming a candidate for a NACADA leadership position -- now or in the future -- we encourage you to review this information to learn more about the leadership opportunities available to you. If you have any questions, please contact the Executive Office.

We are currently reviewing manuscripts for the September edition of NACADA's quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today. Among those accepted for publication are:

• On Being Good Company: Cultural Considerations in Learning Partnerships for Advising by Jane Elizabeth Pizzolato (University of California – Los Angeles)

• More Than a Conversation: Using Aspects of Dialogue to Improve Academic Advising by Anna Mitchell McLeod (University of South Carolina)

• The Challenges of Advising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Students by Margaret (Peg) Steele, Engineering and Science Advising Commission Chair (The Ohio State University)

We are also accepting article and *Sparkler* submissions for possible publication in the December edition (submission deadline September 1). If you are interested in sharing your thoughts with your colleagues in this format, check out the Guidelines today!

Featured This Month in the Clearinghouse:

• July brings an increase in the number undecided students enrolling on our campuses.  In Undecided/Open Students, Patrick Slowinski and Kerry Hammock suggest that rather than focusing on a negative state of students' indecision, advisors should focus on students’ openness to options. Advisors should encourage students to develop skills and intentional experiences as part of the exploration process. Hammock has updated the resource listing in this classic Clearinghouse article that delineates major intervention components that can assist you in advising these students. 

Region Chairs and Conference Chairs are busy making arrangements for the 10 regional conferences that will be held March through May 2009. Watch here for more information as plans are finalized!

Paula Hixenbaugh, Professor of Psychology at the University of Westminister-London, who was a key note speaker at our Region 2 conference in April has been named one of the 50 top faculty members in the United Kingdom for innovative teaching. Congratulations Paula!

Ken Hughey, Dorothy Burton Nelson, Joanne Damminger, and Betsy McCalla Wriggins, Editors of the upcoming Handbook of Career Advising are seeking narratives as exemplary practices of integrated career and academic advising centers for possible inclusion in the book. The intent is to identify academic and career advising centers (or academic and career planning centers) characterized by an integrated approach to helping students with their academic and career planning. A section of the book will present narratives of the centers selected and is intended to provide readers with exemplary practices of integrated academic and career advising centers. Professionals associated with integrated academic and career advising centers are encouraged to submit narratives of their work and accomplishments for publication consideration in the Handbook of Career Advising, a Jossey-Bass/NACADA joint publication.

To nominate a program see the application guidelines. Nominations will be accepted through July 11. This is a wonderful opportunity to gain recognition for your program or resource.

Kansas State University in partnership with NACADA has offered for four years a Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising online. Now in addition to the Graduate Certificate, KSU is offering an online Master of Science in Academic Advising degree.

Courses offered for Fall 2008 are:

• EDCEP 761 Intercollegiate Athletics and the Student-Athlete
• EDCEP 816 Research Methods
• EDCEP 851 Multicultural Aspects of Academic Advising
• EDCEP 863 Trends in Career Development

You still have time to apply and register for classes now for the Fall semester! Visit this NACADA Webpage for more information!

NACADA members may designate up to four Commissions and/or Interest Groups with which to have official affiliation. This official affiliation primarily identifies those Commissions and/or Interest Groups for which you would have voting privileges, receive activity updates, and be eligible to hold an elected or appointed position within, such as serving on a committee or serving as Chair. Although participation in Commissions and Interest Groups is entirely optional for NACADA members, we encourage you to join those of special interest to you, as they are valuable resources for information and networking.

Click on the links for lists of the current Commissions and Interest Groups. More information on a particular Commission or Interest Group can be reviewed on its individual Webpage.

If you would like to designate or change the preferred Commission and/or Interest Group choices with which you would like to be affiliated, please complete this online form. Upon receipt of this information, your membership record will be updated accordingly. If you previously made your selections, but do not recall which Commissions or Interest Groups were designated, you can simply indicate your current preferences via this form and previous choices will be replaced. Please be sure to provide your name and institution information when completing this form so the appropriate member record can be updated. If you have any questions, please contact NACADA at nacada@ksu.edu.

NOTE: Your four selections can be any combination of Commissions and Interest Groups. You can change your Commission and Interest Group affiliations at any time - although you should be aware that this may affect your eligibility for certain awards and elected positions.

• Advisor, Teacher, Partner: Using the Learning Partnerships Model to Reshape Academic Advising by NACADA member Jane Pizzolato in About Campus, v13 n1 p18-25 Mar-Apr 2008.