| Who
is our Presenter?
 Jennifer
L. Bloom
NACADA
President, 2007
Clinical
Associate Professor
University
of South Carolina-Columbia
jlbloom@uiuc.edu
Jennifer
L. Bloom is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of
the Master’s degree program in the Higher Education &
Student Affairs Program housed in the Department of Educational
Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina.
Prior to her appointment at the University of South Carolina
in August, 2007, she served as the Associate Dean for Student
Affairs & the Medical Scholars Program at the University
of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. She earned
her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995.
Jennifer
is NACADA's current President, serves on the NACADA Board
of Directors, and previously chaired the Advising Graduate
& Professional Students Commission and the Member Career
Services Committee. She received the NACADA Outstanding Advising
Administrator Award in 2005 and University of Illinois’ Campus
Academic Professional Excellence Award in 2007. Her research
interests include appreciative advising, academic advising,
career paths in higher education administration, leadership,
and change management. In 2003, she co-authored a book with
Nancy Archer-Martin titled Career Aspirations & Expeditions:
Advancing Your Career in Higher Education Administration.
 Albert
R. Matheny
Professor,
Political Science
Associate
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Director,
Academic Advising Center
University
of Florida
matheny@polisci.ufl.edu
Albert
Matheny has been Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of
Florida for the last ten years, and he directs the Academic
Advising Center (AAC) there. He’s been involved with
NACADA for over a decade and was honored by NACADA as an Outstanding
Advising Administrator in 2003. Since then, he has chaired
the Advising Administrators’ Institute (AI) Advisory Board
and participated as a faculty at three AI’s from 2005 through
2007. He is currently chair of the NACADA Professional
Development Committee and is in the process of surveying the
membership on career ladders for professional advisors.
He and Cindy Iten (Chair, Advising Administration Commission)
hope to develop a “best practices” guide for NACADA members
from the survey results. Watch for a preview in the
September 2008 edition of Academic Advising Today
online!
Albert
is also a political scientist at UF, specializing in the areas
of public law, regulatory policy, and judicial processes.
His research interests include regulatory politics, administrative
law, science and environmental policy, legal change and judicial
reform, and criminal justice.
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