Well trained advisors add significant value to institutions in terms of learning, persistence and overall student satisfaction.  Advisors need well-planned and comprehensive training and development programs that span their careers. The following resources will help you get started with a training program - or will aid in expanding or formalizing your current plan.  Creating a framework from the three foundational components of advising: conceptual, informational and relational can be a great way to begin your program.

 NEW 2016-17

Academic Advising Core Competencies Model

Articles:

• FERPA Self-Assessment, Kansas State University Qualtrics, 2017
• Workplace learning experiences of four professional academic advisors, Academic Advising Today, 2015
• Stepping out of the workshop: The case for experiential learning in advisor training and development, by Duslak and McGill, 2014
• Building advising workshops with native materials, via Academic Advising Today, 2012
• Using technology to enhance advisor training, via Academic Advising Today, 2011
• Creating advisor professional development opportunities on a budget, webinar recording, 2011
• Conducting a needs assessment for advisor professional development, by Terry Musser, Tracy Hoover, and Marcos Fernandez, 2008
• Content components for advisor training revisited, by Jeffrey L. McClellan, 2007
• Essential steps for developing the content of an effective advisor training and development program, by Susan Ford, 2007
• Let them snooze and you lose: An argument for active training methods,, Academic Advising Today, 2007
• From advisor training to advisor development: Creating a blueprint for first-year advisors, by Pat Folsom, Jennifer Joslin, and Frank Yoder, 2005
• The justification for case studies in advisor training and development, via Academic Advising Today, 2003

Pocket Guides 

• What is Academic Advising?: An Introduction to the Field, 2017