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Webinar 5 - "Expanding Your Comfort Zone"

NACADA

presents

"Expanding Your Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising"

A Live Webinar Event

broadcast Tuesday, June 12, 2007

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This live presentation was recorded and will be made available on CD soon!

Please watch this website and your monthly NACADA Highlights for further information.

If you have any questions, please email the NACADA Executive Office or call us at 785-532-5717.


As noted by Grewe (June 2007, Academic Advising Today), "Recent statistical trends project that ethnic minorities will become a numerical majority in the United States by the year 2010. The impact of this growth is pervasive and is evident in the current generation of students who are starting to matriculate through collegiate programs, as they are the most racially and ethnically diverse in this nation's history. For those involved with student development at the postsecondary level, this indicates a need to adapt current policies and practices to better meet the unique needs of our students. As academic advisors who are charged with facilitating students toward the development of their total potential, this means the development of new skills and strategies in order to provide more effective advising services."

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In this NACADA-sponsored Webinar presentation, Blane Harding discussed:

  • the dynamics of a changing population and the impact this has on education and advising,
  • the development of cultural identity and worldview as important concepts for interaction,
  • challenges and opportunities for interaction and effectiveness while working with diverse student populations, and
  • concepts and strategies for culturally competent advising.

Participant learned:

  • the results of student self-authorship and ownership of their own education.
  • cultural considerations for intervention with diverse students.
  • the four components of culturally competent advising.
  • theories of ethnic identity development and degrees of acculturation for students.
  • intercultural awareness and perceptions of self.
  • consideration of the individual within a cultural context.
  • how to treat students equally by treating them differently.

Blane Harding1.jpgWho is our Presenter?

Blane Harding

Director of Advising, Recruitment, and Retention for the College of Liberal Arts

Colorado State University

Blane Harding serves Colorado State University as Director of Advising, Recruitment, and Retention for the College of Liberal Arts, Prelaw Advisor, and adjunct faculty member for the Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity (CASAE). He is the former coordinator of the Black Studies program at CSU and has taught courses in African American history, Black Studies, and Ethnic Studies for the past seventeen years. In addition, he serves as Chair for the CASAE Advisory Board, the Admissions Advisory Council, and as faculty representative on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Blane also serves as a retention faculty member with the Council for Opportunity in Education which oversees the national TRio programs, and he is involved in a variety of activities, workshops, and multicultural training sessions for area schools and organizations. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including: CSU Minority Distinguished Service Award, College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, CSU Alumni Association "Six Best" Teacher Award, History Department Phi Alpha Theta Outstanding Professor Award, Mortar Board "Rose", the Provost's Jack E. Cermak Advising Award, the Athletics Department Excellence in Education Award, and the Blanche M. Hughes Distinguished Faculty/Staff Award.

Blane has served NACADA as a Faculty member for the Academic Advising Summer Institutes and as a member of the Summer Institute Advisory Board.  He has presented at a variety of NACADA Regional and Annual Conferences, and in 2005 received the NACADA Region 10 Conference "Best of Region"  designation for his presentation, The Changing Face of America.  He has presented and conducted workshops at various NACADA events on topics such as Supporting the Achievement & Success of At-Risk Students and Vital Signs: Blacks in Higher Education.



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