2012
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
R2PC01 - "Ensuring Your Personal Safety in the Advising Office"
Steven Stolar, Cumberland County College
12:00-2:00pm
This program will review a checklist of safety items that most often go unattended to in advising offices. We will examine good practices for maximizing the safety and security of you and your staff during working hours on campus. Issues like college-wide policy statements, office layout of furniture, medical emergencies, aberrant student behavior and the like will be explored. This is a relatively new area of inquiry often left to the campus security department to attend to. Our position is that one cannot be too safe at work. There are preparations one can implement to be prepared for campus emergencies.
R2PC02 - "Navigation to Success: Harnessing the Wind of Technology to Foster the Role of the Faculty Advisor"
Rosa Zagari-Marinzoli and James Slizewski, The College of New Jersey
12:00-2:00pm
The role of the faculty advisor can be a challenge if the institution does not have a centralized advising office. This presentation will highlight the steps that the Assistant Dean in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences has taken to bring Advising Transformation to the faculty advisors in her School. The co-presenter, a Senior Business Analyst for Academic Advising, will highlight the contributions that PAWS, the new Student Administration system, brought to the transformation of Academic Advising. Both presenters will show that the advising restructuring could not have occurred without the new technology implementation. The new advising model, like a lighthouse, provides guidance to advisors and advisees and enables students to chart their own course toward academic success.
R2PC03 - "Freshman Transition Program: Mapping the Course from Community College to University"
John McKusick, Towson University
Ann Gamble, Community College of Baltimore County
12:00-2:00pm
The Freshman Transition Program (FTP) is a unique partnership between the Community College of Baltimore County and Towson University that provides a clear and supportive pathway for students to prepare for admission and success at the University. In the last several years, Towson’s admissions standards have increased while the University continues to grow. Students capable of succeeding at Towson have been denied admission. Now in its fourth year, FTP enrollment has increased fivefold and the model has worked to the benefit of both institutions, while providing access to more students. This presentation will outline the development of the program, describe key components of the academic system and student experience, and identify elements of FTP potentially useful to other institutions.
Cap: 20, as requested by presenters.
R2PC04 - "Emotional Intelligence in Academic Advising"
Jeffrey McClellan, Frostburg State University
12:00-2:00pm
Over the past couple of decades, increased attention has been given to the role of emotions in effective decision making, relationship, and leadership processes. Thus we are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of emotional intelligence. In this presentation, we will explore the role of emotional intelligence in academic advising by examining both the intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies and processes that accompany emotional intelligence. This will be accomplished in a fun and educational way that incorporates discussion and active learning to assist participants to understand how to draw upon and improve their own innate emotional intelligence.
R2PC05 - "Better Than a Coin Flip: Empowering Thoughtful & Effective Decision Making"
Blake Mackesy, Wilkes University
2:15-4:15pm
Academic and career decision making are critical and complex tasks facing students at various points in college. Effective decision making entails much more than flipping a coin. It requires self-understanding and the integration of large amounts of information. Academic advising is uniquely positioned to facilitate successful decision making. But which advising model or approach works best and why? A 2011 NACADA Research Grant funded this empirical study comparing first-year undecided students receiving Appreciative Advising to those receiving Career Advising. The presentation includes an overview of the advising models, the individual and course-based advising interventions, an analysis of the findings/results, and future implications and directions for research. Practical tips and strategies will be emphasized while participants are empowered to develop their own passion for research.
R2PC06 - "Blogging for Dummies: Advising Blogs as an Educational Platform"
Sarah Orem and Heather Patterson, James Madison University
2:15-4:15pm
This workshop will provide an introduction to blogging and its application for advising, including hands-on time and support to create a blog. The presenters have collaborated on content development for their 2011-2012 first-year advising blog, and have experimented with different platforms to identify unique benefits and challenges. The presenters will share their narrative of implementing an advising blog for managing their advising load, and streamlining communication with students, technologically. Since a portion of the workshop will be dedicated to providing time and support for participants to create a blog, participants will need to bring a personal laptop with Wi-Fi capability. Participants must bring a computer with Wi-Fi capability to create a blog during the session.
R2PC07 - "Social Media and Academic Advising: Engaging Students in the Virtual World"
Cynthia Pascal, Northern Virginia Community College
2:15-5:15pm
Academic Advising programs are successful in promoting students’ academic and social engagement, while improving retention efforts at colleges and universities. As social media becomes an effective form of communication for students, it is essential that advising programs incorporate this technology in its programs. Competitive schools use forms of social media such as facebook, twitter, YouTube, and blogs to enhance student development and growth. This presentation will help participants understand, identify, and integrate social media into their college advising programs to enhance student engagement.
R2PC08 - "Becoming an Advisor: An Overview of Advising Practice and Research for the New Professional"
Karen Archambault, Brookdale Community College
Sean Bridgen, Penn State New Kensington
Julie Traxler, Rutgers University
2:15-5:15
Print flyer to distribute to students on your campus!
Academic advising has consistently been demonstrated as a contributor to student success and persistence in college, but new student affairs practitioners and graduate students often lack exposure to academic advising as a career choice. This preconference session will provide an overview of advising as a discipline, providing perspectives on how advising links both academic and student affairs’ tasks.
Advising is much more than just knowing the catalog and telling students what courses to take, so this session will focus on the unique ways that advisors both assist students AND contribute to the literature and research about student development and higher education. This session is particularly suited to those looking to break into advising and exploring alternatives to more traditional student affairs fields.
The session will include an overview on advising theories and styles and encourage participants to consider ways to develop their professional paths and personal advising styles. The presenters will provide an overview of their own career paths, professional development and research and offer insights about careers in advising.
Topics include:
• What is Academic Advising?
• How Advising contributes to student learning
• Locating Advising, both physically and organizationally, within the institution
• Being a Practitioner-Researcher: how to use and create new advising knowledge
• Tips on getting started in the field
Presenters are three NACADA leaders whose careers have encompassed both research and practice.
HOW to Register for pre-conferences if you are already registered for the conference!
Log in to MyNACADA
- Choose General Shopping which takes you to the on-line store
- Under Shop For: choose "Session" and hit GO
- Scroll down to 2012 Region 2 Conference sessions (there are several pages of these)
- Choose which "sessions" (pre-conferences) you want to attend, add them to your shopping cart and check out.
- This will not stop you from choosing overlapping sessions, so be sure you know which ones you want to choose before you get into it.
By phone: If you are already registered for the conference: Call our office with a credit card number and tell whoever answers to please add you to specific pre-conferences. - call 785-532-5717
By fax: fill out the paper form and fax it to 785-532-7732 and put "adding precons " with credit card information.
