Fall 2009

• The 2009 (17th annual) New Jersey Drive-In Conference was hosted in June by Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus, and chaired by Julie Traxler. The conference theme was “Advising Locally, Thinking Globally” to reflect that advising today requires a focus on the individual needs of students that is informed by and responsive to the broad global changes that affect our students, our institutions, and our profession. The event was attended by 206 advisers from 36 institutions in New Jersey and the surrounding states (including New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland). The invited keynote speaker was Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, Director Emeritus of the Career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. She spoke on “Creating Connections: Integrating Academic and Career Advising.” Information about the conference, including the day’s program and session information from presenters, is on the conference website, http://nacada.rutgers.edu/

Winter 2009

• The 2010 NACADA Regional Conference will be in Atlantic City ! There are three co-chairs for conference planning committee: Linda Bradbury ( Kean University ), Paula Dollarhide (Richard Stockton College of NJ) and Joanne Damminger ( Rowan University ). there are seven other volunteers for the planning committee.

• The 2009 NJ Drive-In Conference will be at Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus and chaired by Julie Traxler.

• The 2008 NJ Drive-In Conference at William Paterson University was titled "EZPass to Success: Streamlining the Advisement Process" and was co-chaired by Theresa Cruz-Paul, Denise Pignato, and Deborah Sheffield (and with 7 other WPU volunteers). Tom Grites and Peter Hagen from Richard Stockton College of N.J. were both keynote speakers and we had 198 attendees.

• The 2007 Drive-In Conference at Rider University was titled “Raising the Bar: Concepts, Core Values, and Standards in Academic Advising” and was co-chaired by Ira Mayo of Rider University and Tom Grites of Richard Stockton College of N.J. Susan Campbell served as the keynote speaker and we had 204 attendees.

 Submitted by Linda Bradbury, Kean University