DW17CD - "Save Time and Energy: Utilize Existing Resources for Advisor Training and Development"

WEBINAR broadcast August 12, 2008

In this Webinar broadcast, NACADA Executive Office staff members Marsha Miller and Leigh Cunningham built on the foundation laid by Pat Folsom and Jennifer Joslin in their April 2008 broadcast, Ensuring Advisor Success: Mastering the Art of Advising through the First Year of Advising and Beyond (DW14CD).. 

Marsha (NACADA Assistant Director, Resources & Services) and Leigh (NACADA Coordinator of Educational Programming):

• explained the three areas that advisor training should address: conceptual, informational, relational
• discussed the essential steps for developing the content of an effective advisor training and development program
• shared the most common forms of on-campus advisor training
• highlighted creative resource usage by NACADA members
• took participants on a tour through the free resources available in the NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources

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DW16CD - "Advising Student-Athletes on a College Campus"

WEBINAR broadcast June 11, 2008

In this Webinar broadcast, Derek Van Rheenen (Director of U.C. Berkeley's Athletic Study Center) presented participants with a skill set that will assist them in advising student-athletes on their campuses.

Derek's discussion:

• sensitized participants to larger social issues that may impact the experience of a student-athlete on a college campus
• encouraged participants to engage in self-reflection to determine how their personal biases may impact their work with student-athletes
• introduced participants to factors unique to the student-athlete population that may impact the student-athlete’s experience on a college campus
• informed participants about Athletic Department Culture and provided information on how to best engage with the athletic department on their campus to provide collaborative services to student-athletes
• provided strategies for participants on how to best work with the entire campus in delivering services to college student-athletes

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DW15CD - "Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising" 

WEBINAR broadcast May 13, 2008

Career advising can enhance advisors’ work with students and facilitate students’ career and academic development and decision making. Career advising helps students to understand the relationship between their academic programs and career opportunities, to make academic and career decisions, to clarify and set career and academic goals, and to develop plans to achieve their goals. Given the number of career and academic options and the complexity of the changing workplace, career advising is increasingly important. Gordon (2006) stated, “All students need career advising, even those who enter college already decided on an academic major” (p. 5). As a result, it is important that advisors respond to the diverse needs of students. Integrating career and academic advising focuses on preparing students for the future and assisting them to make informed career and academic decisions.

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DW14CD - "Ensuring Advisor Success: Mastering the Art of Advising through the First Year of Advising and Beyond" 

WEBINAR broadcast April 17, 2008

Mastering the art of advising is a developmental journey. Advisors develop excellence experientially. As they work with students over time, they gradually synthesize their conceptual, informational and relational skills. This Webinar is for new advisors at the beginning of this journey and the people responsible for the training and development these advisors will need along the way. The Webinar's focus is on managing the first year of new advisor development, whether that development is self-managed or provided through a formal advisor development program. The Presenters share a New Advisor Growth Chart that sets clear, reasonable expectations for new advisor development; use the chart to demonstrate how to set developmental goals; address issues to consider in creating a road map and offer examples for self-managed development plans and formal advisor development plans.

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DW13CD - "Swirling to a Degree: The Ups and Downs of College Transfer"

WEBINAR broadcast March 25, 2008

The days of single college attendance are waning. Current trends in higher education indicate that today’s college students no longer feel a need or obligation to attend one college from beginning to end, but rather find opportunity and excitement in “customizing” an educational plan with courses from multiple institutions of higher education. This new multi-institutional enrollment pattern has attracted a variety of names: swirling, double dipping, mix and match, campus hopping and many more. Multi-college attendance can range from a single transfer from one institution to another to multiple transfers to simultaneous enrollment. Cost, convenience and technology are among the many reasons students give for “swirling”, but research shows that with opportunity comes challenge. Can “swirling” result in a comprehensive and coherent education?

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DW12CD - "Advisors Help Students SOAR to Academic Success: Selection, Organization, Association, and Regulation Learning Strategies are the Keys"

WEBINAR broadcast February 29, 2008

Kenneth Kiewra (Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) contends that most students have not been taught how to learn. Instructors have taught them subject matter, but not how to learn such content. Consequently, students are grounded by ineffective learning strategies like sketchy note taking, outlining, and rehearsal. Academic advisors can help students SOAR to success by teaching them the simple SOAR study system— Selection, Organization, Association, and Regulation. Selection begins with good attention strategies and culminates in a detailed set of notes for further study. Organization involves constructing graphic organizers like hierarchies, sequences, and matrices that reveal information’s structure. Associations are formed between new information and prior knowledge to foster understanding and retention. Regulation of learning occurs primarily through self-testing. Students able to SOAR can learn effectively in any academic setting.

In this Webinar presentation, Ken Kiewra discussed ineffective vs effective study strategies, lecture note taking,graphic organizers, internal and external associations, memory strategies, self testing, and error analysis.

Participants learned how to describe, support, demonstrate and teach the SOAR components.  One of them said, "We thought you did an exceptional job with the Webinar. The information was presented clearly, the examples explained very well, and it was seamless. So, it was a very worthwhile experience for my department and the academic advisors who attended. We have some additional ideas and information to incorporate into our study strategies classes, and the advisors have a better sense of how to intervene and refer. Thanks for a very worthwhile professional development experience." - Carol Rosenthal, Director, Academic Resource Center, Utah State University

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Participants learned:

• current terminology related to LGBTQA issue.
• about myths and stereotypes about LGBTQA issues

• about the needs of different LGBTQ student populations

• about NACADA resources and other general resources that are available for advisors and administrator.

• how to assess current office and institutional strategies for success

• how to create an action plan for assessing and improving services for LGBTQA students

*A Note about Language:

Prior to the event, some NACADA members asked questions about the use of the term “Queer” in this event. One of Jennifer and Casey's goals for the broadcast was to talk about the terms in use by students, advisors, and researchers. Jennifer and Casey believe that these questions demonstrate the need for open dialogue on these important issues that affect our students, and they were pleased to have the opportunity to address them in this event!

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ISBN No. 978-1-935140-53-5

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DW09CD - "On the Horizon: The Future of Academic Advising and Technology"

WEBINAR broadcast December 12, 2007

In this ground-breaking Internet broadcast, seven NACADA emerging technology pioneers share their experiences with technology usage in academic advising.  Learn about the six areas of emerging technology which the 2007 Horizon Report (published by the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative ) predicts will impact higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years - and hear from NACADA members who are already venturing onto this arena in areas such as podcasting, Live Meeting Rooms, course management systems, and social networking.

Hear from:

• Karen Thurmond, Director of Academic Advising at the University of Mempis (NACADA Webinar Advisor Board Chair and Coordinator for this event)
• George Steele, Director of Educational Access at the Ohio Learning Network (author of Distance Advising )

• Joline Vanderwal, Academic Advisor at Regent University

• Wes Lipschultz, Manager of Student Services, School of Information Sciences, at the University of Pittsburgh (author of Instant Messaging: Powerful Flexibility and Presence and The Tao of Facebook: Uncovering the Potential of Social Networking in Academic Advising )

• Art Esposito, Academic Advisor at Virginia Commonwealth University (author of Saving Face(book): Engage Through Facebook and Retain Relevance )

• Clay Schwenn and Kurt Xyst, Academic Counselors at the University of Washington (2007 NACADA Certificate of Merit recipients for UW Advising Podcasts)

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ISBN No. 978-1-935140-51-1

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DW08CD - "College Student Mental Health: Information and Suggestions for Academic Advising"

WEBINAR broadcast November 6, 2007

Following the tragedy at Virginia Tech, NACADA list serves were abuzz with discussions on how educational institutions respond to students showing signs of emotional distress. NACADA members emailed the Executive Office asking for resource material related to mental health issues and academic advising. As a result, the NACADA Webinar Advisory Board placed this topic at the top of its list for the 2007-08 Webinar season. 

In this Webinar presentation, Dan Wilcox (Assistant Director, Counseling Services, Kansas State University), Ruth Harper (Professor of Counseling and Human Resource Development, South Dakota State University), and Jeffrey Herman (Counselor, Lehigh Carbon Community College) discussed:

• the “Report to the President” which summarizes what has so far been learned from the incident at Virginia Tech
• how to recognize a student in emotional distress
• ways to respond to a student in crisis
• the importance of making an appropriate referral
• methods to increase awareness among students regarding services available to them

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DW07CD - "Legal Issues in Academic Advising"

WEBINAR broadcast October 5, 2007

Academic advisors often find themselves dealing with rules and regulations imposed by government bodies (i.e. courts, legislative bodies) outside the educational institution. To say that these are serious matters is at best an understatement. This Webinar presented basic information on legal issues pertinent to the delivery of academic advising which can assist advisors in gaining a general understanding of day to day legal issues.

In this Webinar presentation, Steve Robinson (University Registrar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County) discussed Confidentiality and FERPA, the Law of Agency, Due Process, and relevant court cases.

Participants in this event:

• became more familiar with the context of certain legal concepts with which advisors regularly interact
• possess a deeper understanding of FERPA
• have a greater understanding of certain day to day tasks in advising students that may have legal implications

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DW06CD - "Academic Advising's Integral Role in the Academic Success and Persistence of Students"

WEBINAR broadcast September 12, 2007

Bruce MacFarlane in The Academic Citizen (2007) states, "the academic advisor is the most significant 'actor' in determining whether students persist." Tinto (2007) states that good advising is one of the key conditions that promotes retention for it reflects an institution's commitment to the education of students.

In this Webinar presentation, NACADA President Susan Campbell (Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of Southern Maine) and NACADA Executive Director Charlie Nutt discussed the recent research that clearly demonstrates the connection between quality academic advising and student persistence and provided stategies for using this research to affect change in your institution's culture. The information they presented is essential for key administrators on college campuses concerned about student persistence and graduation rates or those whose goal is to convince key administrators of the value of academic advising.

Participants learned:

•  the key research that demonstrates the connection between academic advising and student persistence

•  strategies to affect change based on the research
•  strategies for utilizing the research to influence key administrators

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DW05CD - "Expanding Your Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising"

WEBINAR broadcast June 12, 2007

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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Participants were shown:

• how student learning outcomes must clearly relate to the institutional or unit's advising mission
• how to develop student learning outcomes that express what students should know, do and appreciate
• how to develop instructional strategies and experiences for students
• strategies for measuring the student achievement of the learning outcomes

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DW03CD - "Components of a Successful Faculty Advising Program: Institutional Commitment, Professional Development, Incentives, and Recognition"

WEBINAR broadcast February 22, 2007

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 Webinar presentation, Jayne Drake (Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, Temple University) addressed 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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ISBN No. 978-1-935140-45-0

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DW02CD - "Academic Advising Syllabus: Advising As Teaching in Action"

WEBINAR broadcast December 12, 2006

In this Webinar broadcast, Karen Thurmond (Center for Academic Transition, University of Memphis) and Charlie Nutt (NACADA Associate Director) considered the "common language" that students, faculty, advisors, and administrators need to understand if we are to clearly define outcomes, expectations, and assessment of learning for academic advising. They discussed how academic advisors can communicate to students the purpose and value of academic advising, the student outcomes for advising, and student and advisor responsibilities.

Many campuses utilize an Academic Advising Syllabus to address these issues. An Academic Advising Syllabus uses a recognized format and language to communicate all the key issues for students regarding their academic advising experiences at their institution. Thurmond and Nutt provided the basics on how to develop and utilize a syllabus as well as offer examples of syllabi being used at institutions today. 

Participants learned how an advising syllabus:

• creates a culture of "advising as teaching" on campus
• provides an avenue for articulating student learning outcomes for academic advising
• is developed
• can be implemented on a campus

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ISBN No. 978-1-935140-44-3

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DW01CD - "Advising as Teaching"

WEBINAR broadcast September 26, 2006

In this first NACADA-sponsored Webinar presentation, NACADA Past President Nancy King (Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Services, Kennesaw State University) described academic advising as a teaching and learning process that includes a curriculum, pedagogy, and learning outcomes.

"The content Nancy shared was straightforward and useful and she presented a compelling case for moving with Advising as Teaching. For me, your instant data collection was especially beneficial. We had 32 participants and I took the opportunity to query the group on most of the questions."  - Susie Leslie, Academic Programs and Assessment Coordinator, Oregon State University

Participant learned:

• the definition of academic advising
•  developmental theories related to academic advising
•  the goals of academic advising as an instructional process
•  characteristics of advising that contribute to the teaching/learning mission
• responsibilities of advisors and advisees
•  the role of advisor-as-teacher
•  three basic types of conversations advisors have with students
•  suggestions for maximizing advisor-student interaction

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