March04

2004 AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Would you like to recognize a colleague who has done a great job with academic advising on your campus? Does your campus have an outstanding advising program currently being implemented? Are you planning to submit an award nomination, but just haven't done so yet? The deadline for NACADA to receive of all required nomination materials and support documentation for most award categories is Monday, March 8, 2004. That's only a little more than a week away! NACADA must receive the nomination materials by this date.

The NACADA Awards Program would be a great avenue for increasing the visibility of advising on your campus. The 2004 Call for Awards Nominations, including nomination/application criteria, deadlines and forms, is available online at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/AwardsCall.htm. If you have any questions, contact NACADA at nacada@ksu.edu or call (785) 532-5717.

2004 CALL FOR RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSALS

Looking for outside funding sources for research on academic advising? Go to http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/Grants.htm for submission guidelines. Final research grant applications are due to NACADA by June 7, 2004. Please share this funding source with academic researchers on your campus!

2004 RETIREE RECOGNITION

Retiree recognition forms are available at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/Retiree.htm. If you know of a colleague who retired during the past academic year or has plans to retire during the upcoming academic year, and you wish to recognize him/her at the fall national conference, please complete the form at the above web site and submit it to the NACADA Executive Office by June 7, 2004.

REGIONAL CONFERENCES

NACADA Regional Conferences begin in March with Regions 10, 2, 4, and 1. It's not too late to register and attend these conferences or Regions 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 in April and Region 7 in May!! Registrations are rolling in -- join your colleagues in your Region this Spring!

In addition to other excellent preconference workshops at several of the Region Conferences, NACADA will have an Academic Advising Administrators' Preconference in all 10 Regions this year. This is a wonderful opportunity to gain valuable information and network with other administrators in your region -- Register today!

Region	Date	Location	Chair(s)
1. Northeast	March 24 - 26, 2004	Burlington, VT	Beth Higgins Gail Stepina
2. Mid-Atlantic	March 11 - 13, 2004	Princeton, NJ	Bill Johnson Wayne Jackson
3. Mid-South	April 14 - 16, 2004	Charleston, WV	Stan Coberly
4. Southeast	March 7 - 9, 2004	University, MS (Oxford)	Charles Gates Sue Hodge
5. Great Lakes	April 22 - 24, 2004	Chicago, IL	Kristi Bloom
6. North Central	April 15 - 16, 2004	St. Paul, MN	Tonia Baxter
7. South Central	May 27 - 29, 2004	Overland Park, KS	Patricia Griffin Jill Anderson-Hieb
8. Northwest	April 21 - 23, 2004	Seattle, WA	Jason Boyd
9. Pacific	April 21 - 23, 2004	Pasadena, CA	Gwen Fleming
10. Rocky Mountain	March 3 - 5, 2004	St. George, UT	Debra Bryant

CLEARINGHOUSE FEATURE

Is your advising program contemplating some changes? March is a month when many campus administrators take time to assess the success of their advising related services. Featured this month in the Clearinghouse are links that can assist in assessing, revising, and expanding your services.

Does your advisor training program need a lift? In Advisor Training and Development, Heidi Koring, Lynchburg College, discusses ways to overcome the three most common problems with advisor training: time, money, and lack of training for the trainers. Find her suggestions for overcoming these hurdles at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/adv_training.htm#over. Need examples of Advisor Training programs that work? Check out the NACADA monograph Advisor Training: Exemplary Practices in the Development of Advisor Skills http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Monographs/index.htm#train.

Do your student workshops fail to draw a crowd? Want a captive audience? Read Peggy Jordan's College Café http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/College_Cafe.htm to see how the advising staff at Oklahoma City Community College "serve up" workshops that receive rave reviews.

Need to know how your advisor salaries stack up to those in your region? Find median salary comparisons http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/Research_Related/Survey/2003_salaries.htm based on data collected by NACADA and Karen Sofranko, Temple University, in the 2003 Full-time, Professional Academic Advisor Survey http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/Research_Related/Survey/index.htm.

Does advising on your campus need a total restructure? Marsha Miller, NACADA Research Coordinator, Kansas State University, offers Factors to Consider when Restructuring Academic Advising http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/factors.htm.

Need assessment resources? Find a variety of assessment resources at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/Links/assessment.htm. While there be sure to check out the Assessment Commission Web site at http://www.advising.hawaii.edu/nacada/assessmentIG/AAIG.asp.

BOOK REVIEWS

Planning a Spring get-away? Take a book with you from the NACADA Journal's Book Review section. The Book Review offers books to NACADA members in exchange for a review. Newly listed books include:

Multiple Intelligences & Adult Literacy: A Sourcebook for Practitioners

Academic Administrators Guide to Conflict Resolution

Knock Your Socks Off Service Customer Service, Participant and Facilitator Guides

Journey to the Ph.D.: How to navigate the process as African Americans

Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs

The Majority in the Minority: Expanding the Representation of Latina/o Faculty, Administrators and Students in Higher Education

Check out these books and many more at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/brbooklist.htm. Don't be disappointed, request your book early!

ACADEMIC ADVISING SUMMER INSTITUTES


June 6 - 11, 2004 in Portsmouth, VA	August 1 - 6, 2004 in Milwaukee, WI

Join us at one of the Academic Advising Summer Institutes! Click here for more information and to register now!

2004 NACADA LEADERSHIP ELECTION RESULTS

Please join us in congratulating the newly elected members of the NACADA Leadership! Below are the results of this year's election. The terms in office for these individuals will begin at the conclusion of the national conference in Cincinnati this fall. These results are also posted on our web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Election/2004/2004ElectionResults.htm.

President (2004-2005): ERIC WHITE
Vice President (2004-2005): ELAINE BORRELLI

Board of Directors (3-year term each, 2004-2007): JO ANNE HUBER, JANE JACOBSON, NANCY WALBURN

Division Representatives (2004-2006) —

Administrative Division Representative: RICH ROBBINS
Regional Division Representative: KAZI MAMUN

Region Chairs (2004-2006) —
Region 2: JON STEINGASS
Region 4: ANNIE TURMAN
Region 6: CAROL GRUBER
Region 8: SARAH ANN HONES
Region 10: BETH ISBELL TAPLEY

Commission Chairs (2004-2006) —
Advising Administration: LINDA CHALMERS
Advising Education Majors: KARLEEN EDWARDS
Advising Students with Disabilities: LES HEMPHILL
Advising Transfer Students: TROY HOLADAY
Assessment of Advising: VICTOR MACARUSO
Engineering & Science Advising: JEANETTE SORENSEN
ESL/International Student Advising: PATRICK SLOWINSKI
Faculty Advisors: KATHY STOCKWELL
LGBTA Concerns: LYNNE CARLSON
Multicultural Concerns: TINA MCNAMARA
Small Colleges and Universities: WILLIAM VAN DUSEN
Undecided/Exploratory Students: ELIZABETH HIGGINS

Committee Chairs (2004-2006) —
Finance Committee: CELESTE PARDEE
Membership Committee: BRANDY ZITO
Research Committee: JOYCE BUCK

NACADA is offering a 40% discount on selected monographs between March 1 and May 15, 2004. Print, complete, and fax or mail the order form at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/forms/clrsaleform.pdf to take advantage of this special offer!

Visit the web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/index.htm for information on the 2004 National Conference in Cincinnati, OH. A conference registration form can be printed from the web site. If you are fortunate enough to have money left in this year's budget, consider registering now. Over 450 presentation proposals were submitted for the October 6-9 event, assuring that there will be sessions focusing on a wide range of advising issues.

Hotel information is also on the web. Reservations can be made over the Internet, with immediate confirmation. There are five conference hotels, all within three blocks of the Convention Center. If you are interested in sharing accommodations in order to save money, there is a form at the web site to facilitate finding a roommate.

The Consultants Bureau provides consultants to assist doing a complete evaluation of an institution's advising programs and services and making recommendations for possible reorganization or restructuring. This service, as well as providing keynote speakers and/or workshop speakers, is provided at a very reasonable cost for NACADA members and their institutions. For more information contact Charlie Nutt, Associate Director, at cnutt@ksu.edu or go to http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Consultants_Bureau/index.htm.