NACADA Highlights
- April 2007
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NACADA Deadlines
NACADA Professional Development Events
- NACADA
Emerging Leaders Program
encourages members from diverse groups to get involved
in leadership opportunities. [more]
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Expanding
Your Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating
Cultural Competence in Academic Advising -
Webinar Event will be broadcast June 12, 2007.
[more]
- Register now for the Effectively
Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising Seminar
in Burlington, Vermont, June 21-22, 2007. [more]
- Register now for one of the
two NACADA Summer Institutes on Academic Advising
in Burlington, Vermont and Salt Lake City, Utah. [more]
- Apply for a Wesley R.
Habley Summer Institute Scholarship for Salt
Lake City! [more]
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Make
plans now for the Annual
Conference scheduled
for Thursday,
October 18 - Sunday, October 21 in Baltimore.
[more]
NACADA Resources and Publications
- Featured
this month in the NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic
Advising Resources: the article "Developing
a New Advisor Evaluation: From Conception to Implementation."
[more]
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Academic Advising Today seeks
authors for September 2007 edition. [more]
- CD
from the Academic Advising Syllabus
Webinar and a monograph, New Insights
for Teaching and Learning in the First Year,
available now! Look for Foundations
CD: Understanding Cultural Identify & Worldview
Development in May! [more]
- NACADA Website offers opportunities
to post job announcements
and recognize campus advising award
winners.
Association Governance
- NACADA
Division Representatives Elected/Appointed.
[more]
Other
NACADA Information
- An additional
Potential Interest Group is formed. [more]
- Get
Involved with NACADA Commissions and Interest
Groups! [more]
Opportunities for NACADA Members from
Other Sources
- Call
for manuscripts - Journal of Developmental
Education. [more]
- The Southeast Asian
Studies Summer Institute announces an undergraduate
scholarship opportunity. [more]
- The Maricopa Community Colleges
and the Arizona Academic Planning Articulation Steering
Committee co-sponsors the Biennial Conference
on Transfer and Articulation. [more]
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Information
on the Annual Conference
scheduled for Thursday, October
18, - Sunday, October 21 is available here.
Make
your hotel reservation as soon
as possible. There are seven official Conference hotels;
all are within three blocks of the convention center.
If you are interested in sharing hotel accommodations to
stretch your travel budget, you can sign up at this site
as well.
If
you are fortunate enough to have money left in this fiscal
year's budget, consider registering now - an abbreviated
early conference registration form is
available at the conference website above.
It's
not too early to volunteer to work for
a couple of hours at the conference--It's a great way to
get involved and meet new people. Contact Bethany Spore
(University of Maryland-Baltimore County) at: bethany.spore@umbc.edu.
Over
600 presentation proposals were received. If you submitted
a proposal, you will receive notification of its status
by mid-April. Our thanks go to Stacy Woycheck and
her 2007 Program Committee, NACADA Commission Chairs and
the hundreds of readers who made the proposal selection
process run smoothly.
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NACADA
Emerging Leaders Program |
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The
Diversity Committee has developed the NACADA
Emerging Leaders Program to encourage members
from diverse groups to get involved in leadership opportunities
within the organization, outfit participants with the skills
and tools necessary to purse elected and appointed leadership
positions, to increase the number of leaders from diverse
groups and to encourage and assist members of underrepresented
populations to attend state, regional or annual conferences.
Diversity,
as defined by the NACADA Board of Directors, includes ethnicity,
gender, gender identity and sexual orientation as well as
diversity in regard to institutional type, institutional
size and employment position. Involvement in the Association
also is viewed broadly including leadership at many levels
(within the division units, at the division level, at the
Council level, at the Board of Directors level and with
the various work groups, ad hoc committees, Advisory Boards
and task forces); serving on the Consultants' Bureau; writing
for the NACADA Journal, Academic Advising Today and the
NACADA Clearinghouse of Advising Resources; or presenting
at state, allied member, regional and annual conferences.
Annually,
10 Emerging Leaders and 10 Mentors will be selected for
the two-year program in which the leaders and mentors will
work closely on connecting the participants to the areas
of the Association in which they are interested and in developing
a plan for continued involvement and growth in the Association.
Leaders selected will receive $1,500
for the first year of the program to assist
them with travel to state, regional and annual conferences.
In
addition to these leaders, the 10 NACADA regions will invest
at least $1,000 annually toward supporting Emerging Leaders
in the regions. More information on the region focus will
be forthcoming.
Applications from
both Emerging Leaders and Mentors are due May
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Expanding Your
Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating
Cultural
Competence in Academic Advising
Don't miss this live Webinar Event, which
will be broadcast over the Internet on Tuesday,
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
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In this NACADA-sponsored Webinar presentation, Blane
Harding (Director of Advising, Recruitment,
and Retention for the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado
State University) will address:
- 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.
Participants
will learn:
- 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.
Friday,
June 1st is the last day to register, but
participation is limited by our Service Provider and the
event is likely to fill before that date, so visit the Webinar
Webpage
to learn more and REGISTER today!
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Effectively Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising
Seminar |
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Third
Annual
Effectively
Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising Seminar
Burlington,
Vermont
June
21-22, 2007
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members have an essential and vital role in the academic
advising experiences of students on most campuses. Data
in the NACADA 2004 publication, The Status of Academic
Advising, indicates that over 80% of four-year institutions,
almost 50% of public two-year colleges, and 80% of private
two-year institutions utilize models which rely on faculty
involvement in academic advising.
Since
faculty play such an integral role in academic advising,
it is imperative that they have the information, tools and
resources to effectively engage in the advising process. This
two-day seminar will provide faculty with the skills they
need to be more effective advisors as well as hands-on strategies
and material that faculty and administrators who work with
faculty advisors can take back to their campuses to share
with other faculty advisors. A "Best Practices"
segment will help bring together proven ideas for use on
campus.
The
three major plenary sessions listed below will be followed
by small group work by institutional type or institutional
role.
- Advising as Teaching and Learning
- Developing Effective Advising
Skills
- Different Perspectives on Advising
Effectiveness
Faculty
for this seminar will be:
- Marti
Hemwall, Lawrence University
- Kathy
Stockwell, Fox Valley Technical College
- Peggy
Jordan, Oklahoma City Community College
- Jayne
Drake, Temple University
Join
us to help advising on your campus be effective in helping
students prepare for success.
NOTE:
The seminar begins at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 21 and ends
on Friday, June 22 at 3 p.m. The ending time is a change
from what was previously published, so please adjust your
departure plans accordingly.
Reserve
your hotel room now - the block may fill well before
the the June 1 deadline. Click
here
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Advising Summer Institutes |
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21st
Annual
Academic
Advising Summer Institutes
Burlington,
Vermont & Salt Lake City, Utah |
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The most comprehensive
consideration of academic advising available, the 2007
Summer Institutes will be held in Burlington,
Vermont, June 24-29 and Salt Lake City, Utah, July 29-Aug.
3, 2007. The intensive, week-long Institutes
are centered around seeking and disseminating information
in general sessions, workshops, topical sessions and small
group discussions, with the goal of developing practical,
individualized Action Plans for enhancement of academic
advising on your campuses. Participants in the Burlington
Institute will want to consider attending the Effectively
Engaging Faculty Seminar immediately preceding the Institute.
Here
are just a few of the many topics to be covered: Advising
and Retention, Advising as Teaching, Delivery/Organization
of Advising, Ethical Considerations, Faculty Advising, Advising
Undecided Students, Tools for Assessment, Advising At-Risk
Students, Advisor Training & Evaluation, Legal Issues
for Advising, Advising First-Year Students, Advising Administration
and Advising Students in Distress.
The
Institute is designed for individuals or teams who have
responsibility for academic advising, such as:
- Teams or individuals
from an institution desiring to enhance campus advising
services.
- Academic advising
campus task force members.
- Advising program
directors.
- Campus administrators
including deans or vice presidents with responsibility
for advising.
APPLY
FOR A WESLEY R. HABLEY SUMMER INSTITUTE SCHOLARSHIP!
This scholarship waives the early member registration fee
(covers all program materials, several meals and special
events) to the Academic Advising Summer Institute. Individuals
or their sponsoring institutions are responsible for travel
and lodging costs, meals, and incidental expenses not covered
by the registration fee. Applications for Summer Institute
Scholarships
are due May 1
for the Salt Lake City Institute (the deadline for Burlington
has passed).
To
review special benefits to your program and a list of topics
covered at the Institutes, see the Summer Institute Webpage.
PLEASE
NOTE: The
registration form in the PRINTED brochure did not show an
option for Summer Institute ONLY at the Burlington location.
The registration
form on this Webpage has been modified to include that
option. Â If you are using the printed brochure form, just
select the correct fee under the Salt Lake section and write
BURLINGTON on the form. We apologize for this inconvenience.
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| NACADA
Division Representatives Elected/Appointed
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Please join us in congratulating the newest members of the
NACADA Leadership! Victor
Macaruso was recently elected as Commission
& Interest Group Division Representative. Skip
Crownhart and Gail
Stepina were recently appointed as Administrative
Division Representative and Regional Division Representative,
respectively.
At the conclusion of the Annual Conference
in Baltimore, Victor, Skip and Gail will begin their two-year
terms (2007-2009) in these leadership positions while also
serving as members of the NACADA Council, succeeding Jill
Johnson, Jayne Drake and George Steele, respectively. Victor
will work with Kathy Stockwell, appointed Commission &
Interest Group Division Representative; Skip will team up
with Ruth Hussey, elected Administrative Division Representative;
and Gail will work with Glenn Kepic, elected Regional Division
Representative, to lead their respective divisions.
Victor
Macaruso is Assistant Dean, College of Letters
& Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,
and recently served as Chair of the Assessment of Advising
Commission. Skip
Crownhart is the Interim Director of the Academic
Advising Center at Metropolitan State College of Denver,
and currently serves as Diversity Committee Chair. Gail
Stepina is the Assistant Director of the Undergraduate
Advising Office at the University of New Hampshire in Durham,
and currently serves as Northeast Region 1 Chair.
Complete 2007
election results are available on the NACADA Website.
An article summarizing the election results and related
statistics will be printed in the June 2007 edition of Academic
Advising Today - be sure to check it out!
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NACADA
would like to recognize individuals who receive campus awards
in 2007 for outstanding academic advising (faculty or full-time)
or advising administration. If you would like to notify
NACADA of a colleague who recently received a campus advising
award, please provide us with this information by completing
the short online submission form on our Website.
Or, you can e-mail us at nacada@ksu.edu
with the following information: exact name of the award;
the award recipient's name, position title, department/unit,
institution, complete mailing address, city/state/postal
code, and e-mail address; and your name and e-mail address.
NOTE: These campus advising award recipients
do not need to be current NACADA members.
NACADA
applauds these advising professionals on their achievements
and appreciates their dedication and service to students.
Congratulatory e-mails will be sent from NACADA and lists
of the campus advising award recipients are posted on our
Website
by award year. There is also a link to this Website on both
the NACADA home page and the Awards page.
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Involved with NACADA Commissions & Interest Groups
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NACADA members may designate up
to four Commissions and/or Interest
Groups with which to have official affiliation.
This official affiliation primarily identifies those Commissions
and/or Interest Groups for which you would have voting privileges,
receive activity updates and be eligible to hold an elected
or appointed position within, such as serving on a committee
or serving as a Commission Chair. Although participation
in Commissions and Interest Groups is entirely optional
for NACADA members, we encourage you to join those of special
interest to you, as they are valuable resources for information
and networking.
Click on the links
for lists of the current Commissions
and Interest
Groups. More information on a particular Commission
or Interest Group can be reviewed on its individual webpage.
If you would like
to designate or change the preferred Commission and/or Interest
Group choices with which you would like to be affiliated,
please complete this online
form. Upon receipt of this information, your
membership record will be updated accordingly. If you previously
made your selections, but do not recall which Commissions
or Interest Groups were designated, you can simply indicate
your current preferences via this form and previous choices
will be replaced. Please be sure to provide your name and
institution information when completing this form so the
appropriate member record can be updated. If you have any
questions, please contact NACADA at nacada@ksu.edu.
NOTE:
Your four selections can be any combination of Commissions
and Interest Groups. You can change your Commission and
Interest Group affiliations at any time - although you should
be aware that this may affect your eligibility for certain
awards and elected positions.
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Potential Interest Group Formed |
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The
NACADA Commission and Interest Group Division has received
an additional proposal to form a Potential
Interest Group for
Advising First-Year Students. A
Webpage
has been created for this group on which a short description
of its purpose and focus is posted along with the contact
information for Laura Mooney,
who will serve as its initial Chair. A list serve has also
been established for this group and subscription
instructions are available.
Other potential
Interest Groups recently formed include the following:
Members interested
in these potential Interest Groups will have an opportunity
to meet at the 2007 NACADA Annual Conference in Baltimore
in October. Each group will also be given an opportunity
to participate in the annual Commission and Interest Group
Fair at the Conference. Plan to visit these tables at the
CIG Fair and attend the organizational meeting of the new
group(s) of interest to you.
If you have questions
or would like to become involved with one of these groups
prior to the fall Conference, please contact the Chair of
that group. To designate one or more of these potential
Interest Groups as one of your four chosen Commission or
Interest Group preferences in your member record, please
e-mail NACADA.
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| Position
Announcements On NACADA Website |
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Looking
to change your surroundings or to find that promotion that
will take you to the next level in your career? The NACADA
position announcement pages may be what
you are looking for. Employers advertise position openings
on our web pages every day and you may be their person!
Stop by the NACADA Website
and check out the position postings today.
If
you are an employer and are looking for that perfect person
to join your team, the position announcement pages will
be perfect for you as well. Take a moment and fill out the
submission form
and NACADA will host your position announcement for 60 days
or until the advertised closing date. These pages are viewed
hundreds of times a week so do not miss out on this FREE
service that could land the ideal candidate in
your office. These web pages are viewed by both members
and non-members and reach a much broader audience than any
of our list serves so please advertise with us today! List
serves are reserved for issues and discussions.
If
you have any additional questions about the position announcement
process please contact Brad Cunningham at nacada@ksu.edu
or (785) 532-2981. |
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Members
have been submitting manuscripts for the June edition of
NACADA's quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising
Today, and among those accepted for publication
are:
"Adapting
Academic Advising Strategies to Meet the Needs of a Diversified
Student Body" by Alison
Grewe (University
of Miami)
"Sexual
Minority Students: An Academic Advisor's Thoughts"
by Kathy J. McCleaf (Mary
Baldwin College)
"Making
the Transition from Prescriptive Advising to Advising
as Teaching" by Robert
F. Pettay (Kansas State University)
We
are now discussing article topics for the September edition. If
you are interested in sharing your ideas with your colleagues
in this format, check out the Guidelines today!
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| Clearinghouse
of Academic Advising Resources |
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Does your
student evaluation of academic advising need a tune up?
This month the Clearinghouse features several
resources that can help advisors revamp the evaluation process.
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NACADA Resources and Publications |
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NACADA
has published a CD from the Webinar conducted by Karen
Thurmond on December 12, 2006. Get your copy
of Academic
Advising Syllabus: Advising As Teaching in Action
today.
An excellent tool for both individual auditory/visual
learners and group presentations! For more information
about this Webinar CD, click
here.
To
order your copy, click
here. |
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Bonus
- With each copy of the Academic Advising Syllabus
CD that you order, you will receive a copy of the
accompanying Pocket Guide FREE!
An
excellent handout for group training that accompanies
use of the CD! For
more information about this Pocket Guide, click
here.
To
place your order, click
here. |
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Academic
Advising: New Insights for Teaching and Learning in
the First Year is a joint publication
of the National Resource Center for The First-Year
Experience and Students in Transition and the National
Academic Advising Association (NACADA).
This new
monograph challenges readers to embrace the tremendous
potential that academic advising has for educating
today's college students and adds significantly to
the engaging dialogue on advising as teaching. Chapter
authors explore the advising as teaching and learning
paradigm, examine current student demographics, and
address learning patterns, self-assessment, and technology
as key components of advising. Chapters also explore
academic advising before enrollment and beyond the
advising office, as well as the critical issue of
advising assessment. The needs of diverse populations
of first-year students are also addressed. To
order a copy of this monograph, click
here. |
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 Coming
in May!
Foundations
of Academic Advising CD Series
Understanding Cultural Identify & Worldview Development
(CD#3)
&
Pocket Guide (PG03)
Check
the NACADA homepage for updated information as it
becomes available!
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| Items
of Interest from Other Sources |
The
Journal of Developmental Education
is issuing a call for manuscripts.
The Journal 's content focuses on basic skills
education, developmental education activities, learning
assistance, and counseling as they relate to at-risk students
at the postsecondary level. Editorial emphasis is placed
on manuscripts that relate theory to practice (i.e., teaching
learning and student development) and studies that include
evaluative results reflecting the impact on students. The
Journal also publishes manuscripts that expand
current knowledge or have a clearly demonstrated impact
on the field. Author's Guidelines are accessible at www.ncde.appstate.edu/jde.htm. |
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The
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
is pleased to announce a new undergraduate scholarship
opportunity for Summer 2007. SEASSI will offer
20 scholarships to undergraduates to attend SEASSI 2007
- an intensive summer language program offering instruction
in nine languages of Southeast Asia: Burmese, Filipino,
Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese. Summer
2007 program dates are June 18 through August 10. The scholarship
provides payment of tuition, fees and an $1,800 living stipend
for the eight-week program. A modest travel supplement,
up to $200 depending on the student's travel expenses, may
also be included in the scholarship.
By
funding intensive Southeast Asian language study for top
academic undergraduate students, these awards are meant
to strengthen the U.S. national capacity for Southeast Asia
area specialists and foster the development of new scholars
in Southeast Asian studies. The application deadline for
the SEASSI Undergraduate Scholars competition is April
16, 2007. Application and program information
(including eligibility requirements) are available at: http://seassi.wisc.edu or
contact the Center for Southeast Asian Studies by phone: 608-263-1755
or email: seassi@intl-institute.wisc.edu.
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The
Maricopa Community Colleges and the Arizona Academic Planning
Articulation Steering Committee (APASC) will co-sponsor
the upcoming Biennial Conference on Transfer and
Articulation. The conference theme this year is
"Taking Transfer to a Higher Degree: Systems, Structures
and Support to Improve Transfer." Sessions will cover
a range of topics including: strategic thinking for the
future; developing research agendas to improve the student
experience; and practical hands on advice for best practices.
The conference will be held at the Tempe Mission Palms July
29 -31, 2007.
Access the
conference website
for conference and hotel registration materials, conference
topics and schedule, proposal submission forms, and information
about the Tempe/Phoenix area or contact conference personnel
by email at ucr@domail.maricopa.edu or
phone at (480) 731-8139.
Call
for proposals: The Program Committee has extended
the deadline for accepting proposals for conference presentations. The
extended deadline is April
16, 2007. Please submit your proposal by
using the guidelines listed on the website.
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