Region 2 Chair Annual Report - 2009

To report your activities for 2009 and expenditures of 2009 budget

Due to Division Chairs, June 30, 2009

 

Name of Chair : Kathie Sindt         Date Submitted: July 1, 2009

Region :2

 

Section 1: Report of Annual Goals – Progress and Assessment

Describe the activities associated with your region’s goals. Please identify which NACADA Strategic Goal each activity fulfills. Report the status of each goal even if it has not yet been completed or is in progress. If new activities were completed beyond those initially projected, make a new entry and complete all the columns for that entry. You most likely will not have a goal for each strategy.

 

For your reference – here are the NACADA Strategic Goals:

 

Strategic Goal 1 : Address the academic advising needs of higher education globally.

1-A — Identify, prioritize, and address critical issues facing academic advising.

1-B — Collect, analyze, and act upon information about the environments in which academic advising operates.

1-C — Provide comprehensive professional development opportunities.

Strategic Goal 2: Advance the body of knowledge of academic advising.

2-A — Promote and support research related to the enhancement of academic advising through further understanding of the student, the campus environment, advising processes, or other related areas.

2-B — Disseminate the knowledge acquired from the research.

Strategic Goal 3: Champion the educational role of acad. advising to enhance student learning & development in a diverse world.

3-A — Identify and develop strategies for fostering collaboration and education among various advising external constituencies both nationally and internationally.

Strategic Goal 4 : Educate university and college decision makers about the role of quality academic advising in higher education .

4-A — Identify and develop practical strategies and materials for use by college and university leadership.

Strategic Goal 5: Ensure the effectiveness of the NACADA organization

5-A — Promote diversity within the association.

5-B — Enhance NACADA's global visibility and credibility as the resource for concerns and needs involving academic advising.

 

Activity or Goal	Person/committee responsible for activity	Which NACADA Strategic Goal does this address?	Assessment Criteria used	Dollars spent	Date Completed	Progress Made and Assessment of Strategies/Actions Taken
Regional Conference (that made a profit so we could function in 2010)	Conference Committee	Goals 1c, 2b, and 5b	Over 200 attendees and a large profit		Regional ConferenceMarch 2009	Our main goal for the year was to make a profit to revitalize our budget. We far exceeded our expectations, likely because the hotel was very generous.
Awards Program	Awards Chair and Awards Selection Committee	Goal 5b	3 of the 4 awards we offered had nominations this year		Regional ConferenceMarch 2009	The number of nominations was down a bit this year. We need to find new strategies to bolster the number of nominations we receive each year. This year we did have to cancel a couple awards and one award winner requested deferral of her prize until 2010.
Mentoring Program	Bruce Norris, Mentoring Program Chair, Conference committee	Goal 5a	15 pairs		Regional Conference March 2009	Mentoring reception appeared to be well-received. Some pairs stayed quite awhile to chat.
Student Conference Grant	Janine Warnas, Membership Chair	Goal 5a	4 graduate students received registration fee and membership to NACADA		Regional Conference March 2009	This is our Diversity Initiative to try to attract an underrepresented population.
State Drive-Ins	State Liasions – Karen Lewis, Todd Siben	Goal 1c	Maryland and New Jersey held Drive-Ins.		Throughout the year	Pennsylvania will likely hold a Drive-In during the fall of 2009
Elections for positions on Steering Committee	Kathie Sindt	Goal 5a	DE, Eastern PA, and DC positions filled		Spring 2009	While these three positions were filled, our Western PA rep position remains vacant due to lack of interest. In all three cases, we did not need to have an elections as only one person stepped forward to fill the position after multiple calls for interested members.
State Basket at Annual Conference	Kathie Sindt and all region members!	None – pride of region!	Success will be measured if we manage to put together items for a Region Basket this year		Fall 2009	In 2008, we couldn’t pull off a basket for the Silent Auction at the Annual Conference – we hope to do better this year!
Website updates	Kathie Sindt	Goal 5b	Currently up-to-date		Throughout year	The website has been kept up to date this year. Improvements have been started and will continue into 2010

 

Section 2. Describe how you have incorporated diversity and inclusiveness of membership into the planning of your unit’s goals and activities. What criteria were used to accomplish this (such as institutional type, ethnicity, new professionals, experienced professionals, role—faculty, administrator, advisor; region, etc.) ? Add comments or observations you would like to share based on your plans to incorporate diversity and inclusiveness of membership into your unit’s goals and activities.

Our Student Conference Grant is designed to encourage membership in NACADA from an underrepresented population in our region, graduate students. In the past two years, we have not spent all the money targeted for this goal and hope to improve participation next year.

Our Mentoring Program encourages new advisors to become involved in NACADA in their future.

We would like to encourage higher level college administrators (those above the leader of an advising office) to learn more about NACADA and the field of academic advising as a profession in the future. We have created an Award category to recognize a senior leader who advocates for academic advising in 2010.

 

Section 3: Issues/Items for consideration by the Division.

 

Section 4: Identify volunteers serving within your Region (Region Steering Committee, Conference Steering Committee, others)

 

Section 5: Summary of Unit Communications and Meetings

Report any meetings or teleconferences held among unit members since the annual conference last (including specific group meeting, date, location, number of members attending, and brief summary of the meeting.

The Steering Committee met in December 2008 at Dover Downs, DE to help the Regional Conference Chairs finalize their plans for the Regional Conference. We discussed the cycle of expected responsibilities of the Regional Conference Chairs and which four Steering Committees represent their term. In addition, all members provided updates about their responsibilities and we discussed our 2009 budget crisis extensively. All members of the Steering Committee were present.

The Steering Committee met in March 2009 before the Regional Conference at Dover Downs, DE. We had some updates from the seasoned state representatives in attendance and our three new incoming state representatives were able to meet the group. We reviewed tasks that the Conference Chairs needed our help with the next few days of the conference.

A teleconference was held on June 6, 2009 of the Steering Committee. A summary of the regional conference was provided, the early planning for the 2010 conference discussed, and all present provided updates about their responsibilities. Goals for the region website and bylaws were discussed.

  The Steering Committee will meet in December 2009 at the Tropicana Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ.