2010 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

NACADA Region 8 Pre-Conference Workshops

Monday, January 25, 2010

Pre-Conference Workshops

Buy the whole day (all four workshops) for $60

or each workshop for $25

8:00 a.m – 10:00 a.m.   Advising and Retention: Exploring the Mysterious Link - $25

Brett McFarlane, MS, Chair of Region 8

Advising administrators are under tremendous pressure to identify and develop advising programs and interventions that impact student retention and persistence. The primary body of research identifies an indirect relationship between advising and retention. How do we as advisors and administrators develop programs and interventions that demonstrate a direct relationship to persistence? In this session we will review theory, past research, and current studies related to the topic of retention and advising. We will look at, and discuss new ways to address retention and persistence in the face of financial and staffing limitations.

10:00 a.m.-Noon          Legal Issues with Technology, Ryan Hagemman, J.D. - $25

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1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.   NACADA Leadership - Free

Interested in learning how to become more involved in NACADA? In learning what the Leadership opportunities are? In learning what the volunteer opportunities are? In learning how the NACADA Emerging Leader program can help you grow? In learning how NACADA can benefit you professionally? If so, come to this important and interactive session to learn this and more from members of the NACADA Leadership.

1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.    The Advisor’s Technology Tool Kit, Eric Stoller, Ed.M. - $25

Social media tools will be presented that can be added to anyone’s academic advising toolkit. Technologies to be presented include: Blogs, Facebook Pages, Twitter and Wikis.  This session is for advisors who are just beginning to explore the ways in which technology can be used to enhance academic advising. 

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.   NACADA Orientation for First-Time Conference Attendees - Free

On your campus, you know the value of orientation for new students is to be involved early with each other and begin to build lasting connections to the campus. If this is your first time at this regional conference, attending our NACADA Orientation is REQUIRED! Come meet new members ,as well as members of the NACADA leadership, and learn about the exciting association of which you are now a part.                                                                                                                    

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Advising as Teaching: The Way You Do the Things You Do - $25

NACADA President Jayne Drake, Ph.D.

The concept of advising as teaching offers us a frame through which to view advising as critical to students’ academic and Personal development and success. It extends the skills, competencies and attitudes of teaching to the advising process, and it places the role of an advisor squarely within the role of a teacher. In this workshop, we will come to understand that when Done right and well, advising, like teaching, is a shared and reciprocal responsibility between students and advisors/teachers.

Some of the issues to be addressed in this workshop include: how advisors guide students in identifying realistic academic and career goals; how advisors help students to integrate their learning and to see its relevance to their lives; the characteristics employed for both effective classroom teaching and academic advising in the area of skills, communication, and attitude.  These characteristics will be examined along with techniques for incorporating them into the advising process. We will also take a brief look at how an advising syllabus can clarify the shared expectations and responsibilities of advisors and students in the advising as teaching equation.

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will have a clearer understanding of the roles of an advisor-as-teacher and a renewed appreciation of the importance and responsibility of these roles in student growth and development.