• NATIONAL CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 6-9, 2004, CINCINNATI, OHIO
• NACADA CELEBRATES 25 YEARS!
• NACADA COMMITTEE MEETINGS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
• 2004 AWARDS RECIPIENTS TO BE HONORED IN CINCINNATI
• 2005 AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
• DEADLINE FOR ELECTION NOMINATIONS IS OCTOBER 15
• 2005 REGIONAL CONFERENCES
• EFFECTIVELY ENGAGING FACULTY IN ACADEMIC ADVISING SEMINAR - JANUARY 27-28, 2005
• ADMINISTRATORS' INSTITUTE - JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 1, 2005
• ASSESSMENT INSTITUTE - FEBRUARY 2-4, 2005
• NEW LEADERSHIP TO TAKE OFFICE FOLLOWING THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE
• TWO NEW NACADA MONOGRAPHS
• FEATURED THIS MONTH IN THE CLEARINGHOUSE
• ADVISING IN THE SPOTLIGHT
• NACADA JOURNAL UPDATE
• BOOK REVIEWS
• RESEARCH REGISTRY
• AAC&U CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORED BY NACADA
• KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY AND NACADA GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN ACADEMIC ADVISING
• 2005 SUMMER INSTITUTES

Over 2,000 advisors, administrators and students have already registered for the 28th Annual Conference next week.  All registered attendees have received an email confirmation from NACADA.  If you sent a registration form but did not receive a confirmation, call the Executive Office at (785) 532-5717 immediately.

It's not too late to join your advising colleagues-you can still fax registration forms, available at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/index.htm.   The site also has the entire Conference Program available, plus information on volunteering during the conference and joining the choir.

1979:  "YMCA" by the Village People and Donna Summers' "Hot Stuff" topped the charts, Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, we said good-bye to John Wayne and. NACADA was chartered!

You are invited to celebrate NACADA: Lighting Student Pathways for 25 Years at the national conference in Cincinnati.  Boogie to music from four decades at the Welcome Reception. 'Saddle up, Pilgrim' for a trip through the NACADA Archives via the plenary session big screen, in the memory book, and at the 25th Anniversary exhibit booth. It will be 'Hot Stuff' as we celebrate 'Lighting Student Pathways' across four decades:  70s, 80s, 90s, and now the 2000s.

You are encouraged to attend the NACADA Committee meetings in Cincinnati, especially if you are interested in serving on a committee or have concerns or ideas that you would like to share. All committee meetings will be held on Friday morning, October 8, 7:30-8:15 a.m. in the Convention Center at the following locations. If you are unable to attend a meeting or are not planning to attend the conference, please e-mail your ideas or concerns to the current Committee Chair listed below.

Nominations for the 2005 NACADA Leadership elections are due to the NACADA Executive Office by Friday, October 15, 2004. Detailed information is available on our web site at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Election/index.htm, including a list of positions to be elected, eligibility criteria, a list of the current nominees, and an online nomination form. Election information and printed nomination forms will be available in the NACADA booth in the Exhibits area at the National Conference in Cincinnati and in the back of the conference program. Nomination forms can be submitted electronically using the online form, submitted at the conference, or sent to Julia Wolf at the Executive Office by fax (785-532-7732) or by mail.

Announcing the 2005 Regional Conferences!  Presentation Proposals will be accepted on-line after October 1.  Presenting at a regional conference is a great way to share ideas and get to know others in NACADA who share similar interests in advising issues.  Check the Region pages for proposal submission deadlines:

This one and a half day seminar will provide participants with the opportunity to explore strategies to enhance faculty advising programs as well as gain essential insights into effectively working with faculty in the advising realm of their responsibilities.  Quite often, faculty are assigned advisees without any guidance on how to advise or the scope of effective advising.  This seminar will address this issue by providing an overview of the scope of advising while exploring the many opportunities and strategies for enhancing academic advising through faculty. The seminar has been developed for both faculty advisors as well as administrators who work directly with faculty advisors.

The Faculty Seminar will be held January 27-28, 2005, in St. Pete Beach, Florida.  Visit our web site for registration and hotel information:  http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/FacultySeminar/index.htm.

Both new and experienced administrators are invited to join us in St. Pete Beach for the 3rd Annual Administrators' Institute.  The Institute will utilize learning community groups facilitated by experienced advising administrators who are recognized leaders in the field of academic advising administration.  Faculty will respond to the latest issues on campus and facilitate a process through which participants may better understand these issues; help participants account for issues within their academic advising programs; assist participants in utilizing the resources and expertise available to them; and guide participants in the development of an implementation plan for improvement or change for their campuses.

If you are an administrator seeking to enhance academic advising, St. Pete Beach, Florida, is the place to be January 30- February 1, 2005!  Visit our web site for registration and hotel information:  http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/AdminInst/index.htm.

Assessment of services in both academic and student affairs has become a central issue in higher education.  While the reasons may vary from budget requests to allocation of resources to accreditation, assessment is a key issue at most higher education institutions. The NACADA Assessment of Academic Advising Institute will provide you, as advisors and advising administrators, with the background and tools needed to develop an academic advising program assessment model at your institution.  Attendees will be taken through the process, step-by-step, in developing an overall assessment program for academic advising.  Topics will include reasons for conducting assessment; the difference between evaluation and assessment; understanding assessment as a collective process; identifying those hard-to-nail down student learning outcomes in advising; methods in gathering and measuring data; and identification of available resources to assist you in your assessment endeavors. 

If you are involved in assessment of academic advising at your institution, in charge of developing an advising assessment paradigm, or just want to learn more about assessment in advising, this two-and-a-half day Institute is for you.

The Assessment of Academic Advising Institute will be held February 2-4, 2005, in St. Pete Beach, Florida.  Visit our web site for registration and hotel information: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/AssessmentInst/index.htm.

Following the National Conference in Cincinnati, the new elected leadership of NACADA will take office for the 2004-2005 term. For a complete directory of NACADA's leadership, visit the web at www.nacada.ksu.edu/AboutNACADA/orgdir.htm.

Eric White, Penn State University, will serve as NACADA's President for the next year while Elaine Borrelli, University of New Mexico, takes over as Vice President. Jane Jacobson (Iowa State University), Jo Anne Huber (University of Texas at Austin), and Nancy Walburn, (University of Alabama at Birmingham) join the Board of Directors for the 2004-2007 term. Along with Eric White and Elaine Borrelli, the other continuing members of the Board include Tom Brown (Thomas Brown & Associates), Anita Carter (Wayne State University), Ruth Darling (University of Tennessee), and Alan Welch (Purdue University).

The Regional Division welcomes Kazi Mamun as the new elected Division Representative who joins Brian Glankler, current appointed Division Representative. The incoming Region Chairs include Suzanne Trump (Region 2), Annie Turman (Region 4), Carol Gruber (Region 6), Sarah Ann Hones (Region 8) and Beth Isbell Tapley (Region 10). These new chairs will join the continuing chairs who include Susan Campbell (Region 1), Rob Mossack (Region 3), Becky Ryan (Region 5), Patti Griffin (Region 7) and Cindi Guimond (Region 9).

The new leadership within the Administrative Division includes Rich Robbins as elected Division Representative with John Mortensen continuing as the appointed Division Representative. The new Committee Chairs include Celeste Pardee (Finance), Skip Crownhart (Diversity), Brandy Zito Frost (Membership) and Joyce Buck (Research).

Serving the Commission and Interest Group Division will be Casey Self, the current elected Division Representative, who will be joined by Maura Reynolds, the incoming appointed Division Representative. The newly elected Commission Chairs are listed below, followed by those Commission Chairs continuing in these roles. The continuing Interest Group Chairs are also listed below.

Incoming Commission Chairs:

Continuing Commission Chairs:

Interest Group Chairs:

Giving Advice to Students:  A Roadmap for College Professionals (Monograph #11) is designed to help campus professionals, especially faculty and student affairs professionals, blend their expertise to help students understand the underlying assumptions that direct their education and to integrate their college experiences.  A limited supply of this monograph will be available at the National Conference in Cincinnati at the conference rate of $20/monograph.  Visit the NACADA Exhibit Booth to purchase your copy!

Advising Transfer Students:  Issues and Strategies (Monograph #12) identifies many of the issues related to transfer students and provides a wide range of potential services, programs, and other resources to strengthen the overall higher education experience for transfers.  This monograph will be available in November, but conference attendees may make advance purchases of this monograph in Cincinnati for $20/copy.  Visit the NACADA Exhibit Booth to review the Table of Contents and a chapter from this monograph.

• Session presenters at national conferences invariably discuss the organization of their programs in terms of advising models. But, what are these models? In "Organizational Structures for Advising" http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/org_models.htm Celeste F. Pardee delineates the most common organizational structures used to deliver advising services to students. Whether you are contemplating a restructure of your advising system, want to know which model is most common to your type of institution, or would just like to brush up on terminology before conference, this 5-minute overview clearly defines this oft misunderstood topic.

• We often discuss advisor "burn-out" and how to manage stress when things are busy, but what about the slow times during the academic year?  How can advisors best use their downtime to remain motivated and energized? Check out "The Crunch Is Over... Now What?", a new Clearinghouse overview at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/down-time.htm.

• As we celebrate NACADA's 25th anniversary, we continue to revisit classic articles from the archives of the Academic Advising News. "Academic Advisement and the Career Connection" http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Career-Connection.htm first appeared in September 1992. Advisors will find the listing of "skills employers value" of particular interest.

"Effective advising is a part of successful retention programs" (p. 8) so says Vincent Tinto in The Pell Institute's recent report "Student Retention and Graduation: Facing the Truth, Living With the Consequences" http://www.pellinstitute.org/tinto/TintoOccasionalPaperRetention.pdf where Tinto delineates two "distinct, though related issues" that must be addressed within advising programs.

The presses are running! Journal issue 24(1&2) will highlight 21st Century Advising: Facets of Advising Administration. From "The Effect of Standards Use on Academic Advisor Job Satisfaction" to "What do Students Really Want in their Advising?" this issue contains a record breaking 170 pages of articles that can help you be a better advisor. Watch for this issue in your mailbox in November.

Enjoying a little downtime before enrollment?  Want to expand your horizons?  Review a book for the NACADA Journal. 

Recent Book Review acquisitions include:

• Assessing Character Outcomes in College
• Developing Effective Programs and Services for College Men

• Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment

• Effective Teaching: A Guide for Community College Instructors

• How to Get the Teaching Job You Want: A Complete Guide for College Graduates, Teachers Changing Schools, Returning Teachers and Career Changers

• Integrating the First-Year Experience: The Role of First-Year Seminars in Learning Communities

• Leading Organizations from the Inside Out: Unleashing the Collaborative Genius of Action-Learning Teams

• Mastering the Change Curve (Participant Guide and Facilitator Guide)

• Neurolinguistic Communication Profile (Participant Guide and Facilitator Guide)

• The New Educational Technologies and Learning: Empowering Teachers to Teach and Students to Learn in the Information Age

• On the Edge of Success

Find these books and many more at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/brbooklist.htm. Members have three months from the receipt of a book to read and write the review. The book becomes the property of the reviewer upon acceptance of the review for publication. NACADA members may review and publish one book review per academic year; books requested are for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Note: Due to the national conference, book review requests will be filled, based upon order received, after October 12. 

Are you researching an advising topic for your institution, thesis or dissertation?  Want to connect with others researching the same topic? The NACADA Research Committee sponsors an informal research registry to stimulate communication among those researching advising topics. Use the Registry form to be matched with others researching similar topics. Email addresses are provided to all collaborating researchers.

The AAC&U (Association of American Colleges & Universities) will host the conference "Educating Intentional Learners: New Connections for Academic and Student Affairs," November 11-13, 2004, in Philadelphia, PA. NACADA is a co-sponsor for this conference.   Connecting the work of academic and student affairs around shared goals for student learning is the central theme of "Educating Intentional Learners".  Sessions will offer research, models, and facilitated discussions organized around such topics as:  research on student learning; advancing intentional learning; new approaches to curricular and co-curricular design, pedagogy, and institutional support; and collaborations to create a vibrant intellectual campus community.   If you have questions, please e-mail meetings@aacu.org or visit http://www.aacu.org/meetings/educating/index.cfm.

Plenary session speakers are listed below.  For a complete schedule of this conference, visit http://www.aacu.org.

Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor, Chair, Higher Education Program, School of Education, Syracuse University

Gregory S. Prince, Jr., President, Hampshire College

Carol Geary Schneider, President, AAC&U

Peter Ewell, Vice President, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

Deborah DeZure, Director of Faculty and Organizational Development, Michigan State University

Larry Roper, Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Oregon State University

The Kansas State University/NACADA Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising continues to be a very popular and successful opportunity for our members' continued professional development.  This semester over 100 students are enrolled in two courses with approximately 80 on track for completion of the certificate at the end of Spring semester.

Apply now for admission to the program and register for the two courses being offered this spring - Foundations in Academic Advising and Learning Principles.  For more information, visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GraduateCertificate/index.htm.

Two Summer Institutes will be held in 2005.  One Institute will be scheduled in late June in the central U.S.  The other Institute will be scheduled for late July in the western U.S.  Watch the web for details at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/SummerInst/index.htm.

The Highlights are a monthly summary of NACADA news and events designed to inform members via one consolidated e-mail.