Portsmouth, Va., June 22-27 and Austin, Texas, July 27-Aug. 1 will be the 2008 sites of the intensive, week-long Summer Institutes which are 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. Participants in the Portsmouth Institute will want to consider attending the "Faculty Advising: Collaborating for Success Seminar" to be held just prior to the Institute (June 19-20).

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.

These Institutes are 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 that the following members have been awarded Wesley R. Habley Summer Institute Scholarships for this year's Academic Advising Summer Institutes: 

Amanda Hatton (University of Utah)

Patsy Krech (The University of Memphis)

The Wesley R. Habley 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. The scholarship waives the registration fee to the Academic Advising Summer Institute. To learn more about the scholarship program and begin thinking about putting together your application packet for next year, visit this Awards Program Webpage.

Who Should Attend?

The Faculty Advising: Collaborating for Success Seminar is designed for teaching faculty, departmental/institutional advising coordinators, advising administrators, academic administrators, and student affairs administrators with responsibility for faculty advising. Participants may choose to come as an individual representative of their campus, or a team approach may be more effective for certain institutions.

Faculty for this seminar:

• Kathy Stockwell (Fox Valley Technical College)
• Jayne Drake (Temple University)
• Marti Hemwall

Topics for Consideration

Throughout the seminar, consideration of an overall vision and mission of advising, both on an individual and institutional level, will be woven into the topics below to help participants construct a plan for increased effectiveness of faculty advising at their institution.

• Apply models and theories of advising and organizations to assess the various roles, needs, and issues related to advising on your campus
• Identify key campus stakeholders, campus resources, and specific strategies for strengthening and/or developing faculty advising on your campus
• Specify key informational, conceptual, and relational skills components to be included in the development of your faculty advisors
• Develop recommendations specific to your campus for collaborative on-going assessment of your faculty advisors' strengths and needs for professional development in academic advising
• Deepen understanding of your campus reward/incentive structures and processes that do/do not recognize quality faculty advising
• Develop recommendations for assessment tools based on measurable advisor and student learning outcomes
• Demonstrate renewed enthusiasm for advising
  

Join your colleagues to help advising on your campus be effective in preparing students for success. Click here to learn more and to register now!

We would like to congratulate the 2008 award recipients in the NACADA Annual Awards Program. We received many outstanding nominations this year!  These award recipients will be formally honored during the NACADA Annual Conference in Chicago this October. 

Recipients include the Virginia Gordon, Pacesetter and Service to NACADA Award winners; thirteen Outstanding Advising Award winners, thirty-three Outstanding Advising Certificates of Merit; eight Outstanding New Advisor Award winners, fourteen Outstanding New Advisor Certificates of Merit, three Outstanding Program Award winners, seven Outstanding Program Certificates of Merit, two Advising Technology Innovation Award winners, one Advising Technology Innovation Certificates of Merit, two Summer Institute Scholarships, three NACADA Scholarships, and one Student Research Award winner.

Listings of all award recipients can be found on our Website.

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 plan 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!

NACADA Executive Office staff members Leigh Cunningham and Marsha Miller will build on the foundation laid by Pat Folsom and Jennifer Joslin in their April broadcast, Ensuring Advisor Success: Mastering the Art of Advising through the First Year of Advising and Beyond. Plan to join us as we discuss the three areas that advisor training should address (conceptual, informational, relational) and the essential steps for developing the content of an effective advisor training and development program. We’ll share the most common forms of on-campus advisor training, highlight creative resource usage by NACADA members, and take you on a tour through the free resources available in the NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources.

Registration deadline is August 1, but participation is limited by our Service Provider, so don't miss your chance - Learn More and Register today!

NACADA maintains over 60 Listserv mailing lists for global discussions of academic advising issues. Subscribers are encouraged to use these lists for questions and discussion on a variety of advising topics.

NACADA does not provide automatic enrollment to its mailing lists. Directions to subscribe and unsubscribe can be found on each list's home page. General list policies can also be reviewed on this Webpage.

Network etiquette (often referred to as "netiquette") is the informal rules and procedures established for users of e-mail and mailing lists to provide them with some simple guidelines to make these electronic communication tools more enjoyable and less annoying or bothersome. Since all NACADA Commissions and Interest Groups have their own lists, the Commission and Interest Group Division (CIGD) put together a summary of guidelines that subscribers are encouraged to follow when posting messages and communicating electronically via any of these lists. These guidelines can be found on the CIGD Website. A link to these guidelines can also be found on the NACADA listserv Webpage.

Please note that NACADA lists cannot be used for commercial purposes of any type. Subscribers who send messages for commercial purposes will be immediately removed from all mailing lists. Lists are also not to be used to post job announcements. If you have a position announcement you would like to post, please utilize the NACADA Position Announcements Webpages.

Plan ahead for these upcoming Events in the NACADA Webinar Series:

September 18, 2008 - Proactively Planning for a Career in Academic Advising

Presenter: Jennifer Bloom, NACADA President

Registration deadline is September 10.

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November 6, 2008 - Significant Conversations: The Art and Science of Communication in Transformational Advising

Presenter: Jose Rodriguez (Florida International University)

Registration deadline is October 27.

Learn More

December 12 , 2008 - Infusing Research into Practice: Multiple Pathways to Conducting Research in Advising

Presenters: Joshua Smith (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; NACADA Research Committee Chair) and Wendy Troxel (Illinois State University)

Registration deadline is December 2.

Learn More

Participation for each event is limited by our Service Provider, so don't miss your chance - Register concurrently today for any three Webinars and save $10 off each!

The June edition of our quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today, was sent to all members on May 22. If you inadvertently deleted your email notification, you can find it here. You won't want to miss our lead article, "Supporting Social Justice through Advising," by 2008 Outstanding New Advisor Award winner Melissa Lantta (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), or our member contributions on topics such as the use of electronic portfolios in advising, adapting a virtual learning environment, and using strengths-based advising to promote student retention.

The Editorial Board has just begun reviewing manuscripts for the September edition, and the first accepted for publication is "More Than a Conversation: Using Aspects of Dialogue to Improve Academic Advising" by Anna Mitchell McLeod (University of South Carolina).  We will continue to accept article and *Sparkler* submissions for the September edition through June 15. 

We have also begun discussing topics for 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:

• Mind Over Money, by Theresa Hitchcock (University of Central Arkansas). This article, based upon a Region 7 Conference Poster Session, features information advisors need to know about student financial planning.
• What is Academic Advising?  Are you working with first-generation students whose families do not understand how advisors fit into to picture?  The Family Guide to Academic Advising is an effective and inexpensive way to put a quality resource in their hands. 
• Do you work with proactive parents?  The Clearinghouse offers resources that can help you effectively work with the parents of today's tech savvy students.

AAC&U's Peer Review devotes entire issue to academic advising. NACADA members featured include:

• Academic Advising in the New Global Century: Supporting Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes Achievement by Susan M. Campbell (University of Southern Maine) and Charlie L. Nutt (Kansas State University, NACADA Executive Director).
• Establishing Effective Advising Practices to Influence Student Learning and Success by Lynn C. Freeman (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh).
• Reenvisioning and Revitalizing Academic Advising at Western Oregon University by Karen Sullivan-Vance (Western Oregon University).
• Centralizing Advising to Improve Student Outcomes by S. Jon Steingass and Seth Sykes (Virginia Commonwealth University).

Academic Advising From Afar via Inside Higher Ed.

Mary Lee Vance and LaDonna Bridges, the Editors of the upcoming second edition of the monograph Advising Students with Disabilities, are requesting exemplary practices nominations that focus on best practices connected to academic advising of students with disabilities. The intent is to identify academic advisement centers, disability services, academic curriculum departments, academic support services, technology centers, diversity coordinators and other areas that best demonstrate the intersection between academic advisement of students with disabilities within higher education. A section of the monograph will present narratives of the centers selected and is intended to provide readers with exemplary practices that best profile how disabled students have been integrated into the centers mission and vision through an inclusive, progressive, and universally accessible and accommodating approach. Professionals associated with both academic advising and disability service centers are particularly encouraged to submit narratives of their work and accomplishments for publication consideration in the 2009 Monograph on Advising Disabled Students.

To nominate a program see the application guidelines. Nominations will be accepted through June 15.

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 .

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.

The Spring 2008 issue of the NACADA Journal is in the mail! Can’t wait for the spring issue? Check out the table of contents for the issue along with the full text of the book reviews that will be featured in the issue along with the annotated bibliography of recent research in field.

Looking forward to a little downtime after freshman registration is over? Consider reviewing a book for the NACADA Journal. Find available titles posted on the Book Review Website. Reviewers must be current NACADA members; books requested now count for the 2007-08 member year. Reviewers have three months from the receipt of the book to read and write the review. The book becomes the property of the reviewer upon acceptance of the review for publication.

Have a little money left in your end-of-year budget? Consider expanding your professional library with books featured in the NACADA Journal book reviews. Don't buy blind; see what advisors think of today's hottest books while you support publishers who provide the books for member review.

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 Summer 2008 are:

• EDCEP 816 Research Methods
• EDCEP 829 Learning Principles
• EDCEP 838 The College Student and the College Environment
• EDCEP 886 Seminar/College Students with Special Needs

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

Retirees will again be recognized by NACADA at the Awards Ceremony during the Annual Conference in Chicago this fall. Retiree recognition forms are available on the Website. If you know an advising colleague who retired during the past academic year or has plans to retire during the upcoming academic year, please complete the recognition form and submit it to the NACADA Executive Office by June 2.

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:

Winter Seminar (topic to be announced in August) - February 12-13, 2009

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

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

Information will be added to our Institute/Seminar Webpages as it becomes available.

NACADA's Campus Advising Awards program is a great way to recognize a colleague on your campus who has received a campus award in 2008 for outstanding academic advising (faculty or full-time) or advising administration. 

If you would like to notify NACADA of a colleague who recently received a campus advising award, please provide us with this information by completing the brief online submission form. Or, you can e-mail us at nacada@ksu.edu with the following information: exact name of the award; the award recipient's name, position title, department/unit, institution, complete mailing address, city/state/postal code, and e-mail address; and your name and e-mail address.

NOTE: Campus advising award recipients do not need to be current NACADA members.

NACADA applauds these advising professionals for their achievements and appreciates their dedication and service to students. Congratulatory e-mails will be sent from NACADA and lists of the campus advising award recipients are posted to our Website by award year.

Information is now available on the 2009 NACADA Leadership elections, including a list of positions to be elected, eligibility criteria, position overviews, 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 and 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.