Region Chair Debbie Nakashima Hawaii Pacific University Phone: (808) 544-0269 dnakashima@hpu.edu   Become a NACADA Volunteer Today!		Region Conference Chairs Torrey Mandell Univ of California - Berkeley nacada_torrey@yahoo.com & Jake Lacy Warren College, UCSD jlacy@ucsd.edu
Region 9 Operating Principles / Advisory Committee

The Pacific Region consists of the following states - Nevada, California, and Hawaii. The Region has one Regional Representative, and each state has a State Representative to promote NACADA and academic advising within the region and state; please contact any individual on the Board for more information regarding state and/or regional information.

Nevada	Hawaii
NACADA Liaison:	NACADA Liaison:
Anne Hein University of Nevada Work: (702) 895-3177	Jeanne Oka University of Hawaii Work: (808) 956-8515

California

NACADA Liaison:

Kazi Mamun University of Southern California (213) 740-0675

Heather Howard
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  (702) 895-1537

Rimi Marwah
University College
University of NV, Las Vegas
(702) 895-3177  

Cindi Guimond

Claremont McKenna College, Claremont CA

(909) 621-8117

Debbie Nakashima

 Hawaii Pacific Univ

(808) 544-0269

SUB-UNIT GOALS:

• To enrich the regional NACADA member experience by providing outreach opportunities, membership opportunities and information, timely and consistent communication throughout the region, and encouraging involvement in NACADA.

Objectives to address Goals:

• Continue to work collaboratively with other professional organizations and/or conferences enhancing common goals, networking, and membership involvement.
• Revise Advisory Council for region that includes at least one representative from Nevada, California, and Hawaii, one representative from large private, large public, small private, small public, and two-year institution. For purposes of continuity and institutional memory, past region chair, current chairs of interest groups and commissions (from within region) will also be members of the new advisory council. Current chair will preside over the advisory council.
• Continue to communicate with our membership via PACNET, and mailings to new members.
• Work with the National NACADA office to have the Region 9 website organized and hosted by the NACADA Executive Office.
• Continue to promote membership in NACADA and participation in local drive-in, regional, and national conferences.
• Provide information regarding Region 9 to Academic Advising News.
• Represent Region 9 concerns and interests to the Board.

Actions taken towards Objectives:

• Region 9 and Region 8 will co-host a regional conference on April 30-May 2, 2003 in Vancouver British Columbia as part of this joint initiative.
• Send out electronic invitation to all specified to formally join the new advisory council.
• Continue with the production of Pacific Currents, a bi-annual Region 9 bulletin to be sent to all Region 9 members where announcements, job opportunities, ideas, etc. can be shared. Continue communications via PACNET and personalized email to the membership.
• Appoint a new region webmaster to get the Region 9 Website hosted on the NACADA central space to avoid depending on specific institutions’ technical team. Already emailed entire membership about important upcoming events via personalized email.
• Mention NACADA activities in efforts to spread the word and get others involved.
• Stay on top of deadlines for each submission
• Host Region 9 Board meetings to brainstorm ideas and to provide a forum where issues can be heard and tasks and benchmarking can be proposed. Use our PACNET list serve for discussion on topics and solicit opinions via direct email

Strategies for addressing Strategic Plan:

• To influence Deans and Vice Chancellors at University of Southern California to support the values of quality academic advising through professional development and encourage the utilization of resources that NACADA provides.
• Have a standing dialogue with the Council of Academic Advisors (CAA), USC’s internal organization of advisors about professional development opportunities provided by NACADA.
• Continue to assess the effectiveness of the soon to be formed advisory council’s organizational structure and determine if current structure promotes maximum inclusion and individual growth opportunities.
• Embrace new technologies that enhance academic advising at this year’s Regional Conference.
• Bring to the surface issues that deal with stress-reduction and wellness for the advising community, which works under tremendous pressures.
• Cultivate new membership opportunities.

Actions Taken on Strategies:

• Met with senior administrators at the University of Southern California to talk about NACADA and ask them to talk to individual departments about making available to their advisors professional development opportunities such as providing financial support to go to NACADA regional and/or national conferences. Got positive feedback but budget cuts are a definite challenge.
• Met with the Council of Academic Advisor’s steering committee to co-sponsor a conference on advising for advisors from the local area tentatively in May.
• Continue to work on Geographic representation in the Region. I am on the national board on the issue of geographic boundaries. This is somewhat of a challenge given the sheer size of Region 9 and the distances between areas where advisors are concentrated.
• The regional conference addresses our changing technology needs. I will continue to talk about why advisors need to shed technophobia and embrace some technology in order to be effective advisors.
• Some of the special topics at this year’s regional conference deal with “gardening” and “cultivation”. The strength of the theme lies in the symbiotic relationship between students and advisors. At the regional conference speak with counselors from community colleges to see if we can find a happy medium between “counselors” and “advisors” so we organize at least some local workshops jointly to gain members from community college population.