NACADA

presents

A Live Internet-broadcast Webinar Event

Thursday, February 22, 2007

"Components of a Successful Faculty Advising Program: Institutional Commitment, Professional Development, Incentives, and Recognition"

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Most colleges and universities around the country understand that Faculty Advisors are absolutely critical to the health and well being of advising programs, and so faculty advising responsibilities are deeply embedded in the institutional mission. Yet surprisingly little is being done systemically to encourage quality faculty advising, to craft faculty advisor development programs, and to recognize and offer incentives for excellence in advising.

In this NACADA-sponsored Webinar presentation, Jayne Drake addressed four critical points:

• the need for broad institutional commitment to faculty advising from key stakeholders,
• the importance of clearly articulated mission, process, and goal statements,
• the components of a successful faculty advisor development program, and
• the incentives and "rewards" important in acknowledging and promoting excellence in advising.

Participants were shown:

• the specific ways in which faculty advising is teaching at its best
• the relevance and cross-institutional significance of faculty advising programs and faculty advisor evaluation
• the basic elements of successful faculty advising development programs and the importance of broad institutional commitment to them
• delivery models for a faculty development program and for what the content of such programs might look like
• the practical and tangible measures for evaluating the effectiveness of faculty advisors, and assessing faculty advising programs
• the issues involved in developing intentional, thoughtful assessment plans
• a understanding of the tools needed to develop and sustain advising
• various models for recognizing, rewarding, and promoting excellence in faculty advising

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Discussion Ideas

What did Participants learn? Here is a sampling of the Participant Responses to the Webinar Evaluation Question: What was the most helpful information you learned during this Webinar?

• My dept (professional advisors) hosted this; it was very helpful for the instructional faculty who attended to learn the difference between service (degree checks, signing forms, etc.) and advising -- thank you!
• The difference between providing a service and advising as teaching
• The importance of defining what advising is on our campus before developing a faculty advising program.
• The understanding of advising as teaching and the ways in which institutions need to actively teach and support faculty in their roles as advisors. Great bibliography. Thanks.
• We have a lot of the pieces for faculty advising, but the Webinar gave us the overall organizational step by step process that we needed.
• Perspective. We have the skeleton of an effective advising program. We just need to add some meat to his bones.
• I think providing a general overview about how to develop a comprehensive Faculty Advising program was helpful. The Webinar created formalized step-by-step process (rationalization-development-implementation-evaluation-rewards)
• The information on planning a faculty development program, especially the information about a faculty advising handbook
• Good overview; helpful for improving or developing an advisement program
• The idea of putting together some kind of manual or other advising tools for faculty.
• I was impressed with the detail of information provided in the webinar as well as the NACADA web site reference information.
• The material on professional development and assessment was especially relevant to our institution.
• I just took over a position where I advise about 80 students and coordinate trainings for faculty advisors. I have had no real on-the-job training, and this webinar was the best thing I have experienced in that regard.
• It was a great overview of faculty advising and how we say we value it, but don't provide the resources, reward and support systems for faculty. I had the right people in the room to hear this from someone else besides me. Thanks!
• Reminding us of the various important details regarding the components of an advising program. Much of what we are doing was affirmed, many new insights will help us strengthen our program.

Who is  our Presenter?

Jayne K. Drake

Associate Professor of English
Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs
Temple University

Jayne Drake is an Associate Professor of English, the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, and the Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. Of the many titles - administrative and academic - that Jayne has worn over the years, the one most satisfying is that of "professor." She has received awards for excellence in teaching and is a designated member of the University Honors faculty.

For NACADA, Jayne has served as Chair of the Awards Committee and now co-chairs the Administrative Division of the Association and sits on the NACADA Council. She was also pleased to serve as a plenary speaker for the Effectively Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising Seminar and as a faculty member at NACADA's Summer Institute.  For nearly a decade, she has been a proud member of NACADA and Region 2.