Join Us in Clearwater Beach, Fla.

for the

Technology Seminar,

Administrators' Institute and/or

Assessment Institute

at the

Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort

Register NOW for these NACADA professional development events. The Hilton Resort is located directly on the Gulf Coast beach, when you are finished at the end of the day, enjoy a walk on the beach to one of the many excellent restaurants. We look forward to working with you at this wonderful location. Click for the registration form. Early registration ends January 23.

Advising 2.0: Utilizing Technology Effectively for Campus-wide Advising - February 12-13, 2009

"Is your campus utilizing technology effectively for academic advising?"  If your answer is "no," or even "I don't know," then this year's NACADA Annual Seminar, Advising 2.0: Utilizing Technology Effectively for Campus-wide Advising, is for you!  The seminar, held in sunny Clearwater Beach, Fla., February 12-13, 2009, focuses on technology tools and issues that can effectively be utilized on your campus.  Participants will have "hands-on" experiences in developing strategies for utilizing technology tools in academic advising.

This exciting seminar moves NACADA and academic advising to a new paradigm.  To meet the academic advising needs of your campus, we encourage you to come experience this challenging seminar and obtain the skills and ideas needed to effectively implement plans for your campus utilization of technology.

Visit the seminar website for more information.

7th Annual Academic Advising Administrators' Institute - February 15-17, 2009

Learning Communities and Faculty will provide an environment for participants to find guidance in the development of an action plan for improvement or change on your campus and network and learn from administrators from a variety of institutional types and sizes.

New this year to the Administrators' Institute:

. The Small Group Discussions will focus on three areas, New Advising Administrators (less than three years), Experienced Advising Administrators (more than three years) and Administrators (Dean, VP, Provost) Directing Multiple areas, including advising. Enjoy this opportunity to network with colleagues who are facing the same challenges on their campuses!

. Faculty Consultations - An afternoon will be set aside for participants to sign up for one-on-one time with faculty members. Sign up to receive feedback from one faculty member or several different faculty! This is your opportunity to network with other faculty members besides your small group faculty member. We are here to answer questions!

Visit the institute website to learn more.

6th Annual Assessment of Academic Advising Institute - February 18-20, 2009

The Assessment of Academic Advising Institute provides a foundation for participants regarding assessment's critical elements, purposes, and processes. Through presentations and small group discussion/working sessions, participants explore strategies for the assessment of academic advising programs-including establishing clear goals and outcomes and developing assessment measures for these goals and outcomes. The Institute provides participants with an understanding of the cyclical and ongoing nature of assessment. Most importantly, the Institute offers participants the opportunity to work with colleagues from similar institutional types and with other professionals and experts in the fields of advising and assessment to develop comprehensive assessment plans for their respective campuses. Join other colleagues as they work through the process of making assessment a success. Bring a team from your institution to get your assessment program up and running!

Visit the website to see a tentative schedule.

It is critical that you book your lodging as early as possible. The deadline for receiving the discounted hotel rate is January 16, 2009, but the hotel may fill prior to that deadline. Visit the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort website today!

Interested in contributing to the body of research related to academic advising, but don't know where to start? Then this is the event for you!

Infusing Research into Practice: Multiple Pathways to Conducting Research in Academic Advising

Friday, December 12, 2008

A Live Internet-broadcast Webinar Event

Please consider submitting a presentation proposal for next year's Annual Conference, September 30-October 3 in San Antonio. The title is "Academic Advising: Deep in the Heart of Student Success."

The Call for Proposals will be mailed to all current members in early December. Beginning December 8, presentation proposals may be submitted online. The system will close on February 13, 2009.

If you have theories, techniques, ideas, or practices to share that address higher education's academic advising needs or promote the advising profession's role in enhancing student learning and development, or if you have done an extensive literature review, please consider submitting a proposal. Advisors, administrators, faculty, counselors, career development specialists, researchers, graduate students - we want to hear from you! We earnestly encourage novice as well as experienced presenters.

2008 Annual Conference

Over 200 individual sessions now have support material submitted by the presenter and posted to our website. If you were a presenter in Chicago, it's not too late to e-mail your material. Materials are available to persons who attended the conference, check page 2 of your Chicago program to find the web address.

Each year NACADA recognizes academic advising professionals making significant contributions to the advising field. The 2009 Awards Call for Nominations, including nomination forms, guidelines and criteria, is available online. All information and forms can be accessed on the NACADA Annual Awards Program website. The deadline for the receipt of nomination materials for most award categories is March 2, 2009. Award recipients will be honored at the NACADA Annual Conference this fall.

Please carefully review the applicable information in the 2009 Awards Call before submitting your final nomination materials. Refer to the 2009 Call for Nominations on the Awards website for more detailed information about all award categories, applicable eligibility criteria and submission procedures.

NACADA Winter Institute Scholarships Now Available

NACADA is pleased to announce the new Administrator's Institute and Assessment Institute scholarships! There will be six awards given per institute this year. This is an exciting opportunity for the association to support our members and encourage involvement in the institutes.

The application deadline for scholarships to these institutes is December 1, 2008. Winners will be announced after December 12, 2008. For information on the Administrator's Institute and Assessment Institute scholarships visit the Awards website.

Announcing the NACADA Graduate Student Regional Conference Scholarships

The NACADA Annual Awards Program introduces the Graduate Student Regional Conference Scholarship program. These scholarships will provide NACADA graduate student members with an opportunity to attend a NACADA Regional Conference. As a result of the tremendous success of the Silent Auction held during this year's Annual Conference in Chicago, we will be able to award three scholarships per region. The award covers the regional conference registration fee.

Be sure to submit your application by January 30, 2009! For the application and details on the Graduate Student Regional Conference Scholarships, visit the Awards website.

NACADA Near You!

Regional conferences address current issues in advising and provide quality professional development opportunities in a cost-effective manner, with low registration fees, opportunities for group travel and good hotel discounts. Registration will open soon, so make your plans to attend!

Most regions are accepting presentation proposals! Click on your region to see the deadlines! Regions are a great place to start your "presenting" career! Teams are welcome as well as presentations by graduate students, experienced practioners and those new to the advising field.  

Photo courtesy of the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association.

2009 NACADA Academic Advising Summer Institutes

Kansas City, Mo.

 June 28 - July 3

New Orleans

 July 26 - July 31

Pick either Summer Institute - you won't miss out on the jazz either way! 

Photo by Carl Purcell. Ccourtesy of the New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Join administrators, advisors and faculty advisors for a comprehensive look at academic advising today. Along with general sessions, workshops and topicals, you will develop an Action Plan for enhancing or improving advising on your individual campus. 

Plan now! Arrange for teams or individuals from your institution to attend in 2009! Many institutions have varying summer schedules and the Institute has limited enrollment/faculty ratios, so we offer the Institute two times each summer.   Join us in Kansas City, June 28-July 3, OR New Orleans, July 26-July 31, 2009.   With the current economic concerns in mind, we have selected these centrally located cities, both with easy accessibility by air or auto.  We are also keeping registration fees the same as last year!  So, choose the date or location to fit your needs and we welcome you at either one! Register soon to ensure your participation! Program outlines are available on the Summer Institute webpage and information will be posted as it becomes available! 

You might be interested in looking at descriptions of some of the Action Plans prepared for past Institutes.

Scholarships are available for Summer Institute attendance. Applications will be available in December on the Awards Program website and will be due by May 1, 2009. Graduate students are invited to apply as well as practicing professionals. Please apply if you know this will help you participate in this great program!  Take advantage of this opportunity to cut your expenses and participate in one of the Institutes!

Selection and Eligibility Criteria for the Wesley R. Habley NACADA Summer Institute Scholarships:

1. The applicant must:
   • be a current NACADA member at the time of scholarship application;
   • demonstrate involvement in professional activities and institutional organizations (including NACADA). This includes conferences attended, presentations, committees, commissions, etc.; and
   • provide a description of goals to be accomplished through participation in the Summer Institute.

2. Current elected or appointed officers and officials in NACADA are not eligible for the Wesley R. Habley NACADA Summer Institute Scholarship.

3. Previous Summer Institute scholarship recipients and previous Summer Institute participants are not eligible.

Edge Hill University is pleased to host the 2009 International Conference on Personal Tutoring and Academic Advising in association with the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) and the The Higher Education Academy. The conference is scheduled for April 21-22 in Liverpool, U.K., and its aim is to explore the ways in which personal tutoring, academic advising and other forms of institutional support contribute to improving student success in higher education.

The program will include: keynote presentations by experts from the US and UK; an international dialogue about supporting international students; student perspectives on key issues; peer reviewed papers and symposia; practically-oriented workshops about personal tutoring and academic advising; posters providing information about research and interventions in the UK and abroad; opportunities for networking with international colleagues; and encouragement for collaborative practitioner reflection and research.

For more information visit the conference webpage.

Is the high cost of travel keeping you and your advising staff close to home? 

Plan to join us Online in February for two

Live Internet-broadcast Webinar Events

Success with Parent Education: Dialoguing with New Students and their Parents at the Collegiate Level On Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Best of Region 7 Conference Presentation winner Brian Nossaman will discuss the current practices and effective techniques used at the University of Oklahoma's University College to teach the new college parent and student about their changing roles. By setting the stage of education, vocabulary and dialogue, Brian contends, both parents and students can make the successful transition within the appropriate boundaries. Plan to join Brian as he discusses one of the year's "hottest" topics.  Learn More and Register today!

DIFS Makes the Difference in Student Motivation: Both Skill and Will are Needed for Student Success BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Ken Kiewra!   If you have been fortunate enough to view Ken Kiewra 's February 2008 Webinar broadcast, Advisors Help Students SOAR to Academic Success: Selection, Organization, Association, and Regulation Learning Strategies are the Keys, you know we are in for an interesting, informative, innovative hour+ when Ken returns to follow up his discussion of how advisors can assist their advisees in developing optimized learning skills! Join us on Friday, February 27, 2009 - when Ken discusses DIFS- Desire, Intention, Focus, and Sustainment- the "WILL" component to the winning SKILL + WILL combination for student success.  Learn More and Register today!

Find out more about additional upcoming Webcasts for Spring 2009.

WEBINAR: March 26, 2009 - Making the Grade: What Advisors and Administrators Need to Know to Better Assist Students with Disabilities

Presenter: Marilyn Kaff (Kansas State University)

Registration deadline is March 17

Learn More

WORKINAR (new format for groups): April 23, 2009 - Career Advising in Action: Try It and Apply It, a follow-up to DW15 Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising

Presenters: Joanne Damminger and Betsy McCalla-Wriggins (Rowan University)

Registration deadline is April 14

Learn More

Participation for each event is limited by our Service Provider, so don't miss your chance. Register concurrently for any three Webinars and save $10 off each!

Watch for the December edition of NACADA's quarterly e-Publcation - Academic Advising Today - coming to the e-mailboxes of all Members soon! Some of the articles you can look forward to are:

• Going Out The Door: The Internationalization of NACADA by Jeffrey McClellan (Chair, Theory and Philosophy of Advising Commission) and Shannon Lynn Burton (Michigan State University)
• A Positive and Supportive Intervention for Students on Academic Probation: One-to-One Mentoring by Chris Maroldo (Past Chair, Probation/Dismissal/Reinstatement Issues Interest Group) and Gwen Hobley (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
• Grounding the Helicopters: Moving Toward Proactive Partnering for Student Success by Darren Francis (Simon Fraser University) and Nicholas Johnson (University of the Fraser Valley)

Authors have been hard at work preparing their articles for the March edition, and we are now discussing article topics for the June edition. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts with your colleagues in this format, check out the Guidelines today!

Featured this month in the Clearinghouse: Student Learning Objectives for Academic Advising

In the rush to the end of the academic term do you wonder what students have learned from the time spent with academic advisors? Is assessment a "hot topic" on your campus? Now is the time to delineate what you expect advisees to learn from your advising.

This month the Clearinghouse features resources that can help you delineate what students learn from your advising and the impact you have on their academic lives. Find overviews and resources in the Clearinghouse at:

• Constructing Learning Objectives for Academic Advising  
• An annotated bibliography of resources where you can learn more about writing student learning objectives
• An overview of methods for constructing an effective advising syllabus
• Sample advising syllabi

Now available on CD - Our newest Webcast recordings

DW18CD - Proactively Planning for a Career in Academic Advising

If you missed it live, here is your chance to bring your Advising Team together to hear NACADA Past-President Jennifer Bloom and Professional Development Committee Chair Albert Matheny discuss career advancement in the academic advising field.  Advisors will be interested in hearing Jenny and Albert's suggestions on how to ensure a long and successful career in the field; Advising Administrators will benefit from their tips on how to motivate and retain their advising staff.

DW19CD - Significant Conversations: The Art and Science of Communication in Transformational Advising

Share in NACADA Emerging Leader José Rodriguez's exploration of the art and science of communication, including specific behaviors and theories designed to elicit significant, transformational conversations between advisors and advisees.

Learn More about all our Webcasts on CD and order today!

If you still haven't purchased the first edition of the Academic Advising Handbook, now is the time to place your order. The second edition builds upon the first edition, so you really need both editions for your advising resources library.

While supplies of the first edition last, NACADA is offering both editions (2000 & 2008) of Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook as a combo package for $85 with FREE shipping! NACADA members may order online.

You may purchase the books individually, as well, using the online form mentioned above. For more information on these books, visit First Edition and Second Edition.

Order online

NACADA and the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition are pleased to release the

2nd Edition of A Family Guide to Academic Advising

**NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH**

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The fall 2008 issue of the NACADA Journal is on the press!  Watch your mailbox for your copy in late December. This issue will include:

• Frequent Major Changing: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors
• Imagination and Interpretation: Academic Advising and the Humanities
• Advising Jay: A Case Study Using a Situational Leadership Approach
• Efficacy of Intrusively Advising First-Year Students via Frequent Reminders for Advising Appointments
• A Reliable Sounding Board: Parent Involvement in Students' Academic and Career Decision-Making
• Academic Advisors' Learning Styles: Establishing a Baseline and Examining Implications
• A featured book review and reference citations for the reviews posted on the Journal's Book Review website
• Annotated Bibliography of Recent Research Related to Academic Advising

Can't wait for the issue? Sneak a peek at your colleagues' reviews of the latest literature in the field on the Journal's Book Review website.

Dreaming of Winter Break? Catching up on your professional reading? Consider requesting a book for review in the NACADA Journal. Completed reviews for books selected now will be due the end of March.  A sampling of books available for review include:

• The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
• Designing and implementing career programs: A Handbook for effective practice
• A Strength-based approach to career development using appreciative inquiry

Find these and more on the Journal's website.

The NACADA Research Committee announces a Request For Proposals (RFP) for NACADA grants that support advising research. Grants up to $5,000 are available to support a single-year proposal. Practicing professionals (administrators and faculty), as well as graduate students seeking support for dissertation research, are eligible. The Research Committee will review grant applications for 2009 funding after the March 15 deadline. Click for information regarding research grants.

Need research ideas? The Research Committee has delineated a research agenda listing ten advising topics deemed to be critical within advising research.

Have a research topic? Want to connect with a Research Committee member to discuss your research? Join the NACADA Research Registry.

Have research ideas but don't know how to make your research happen?  Make plans now to attend NACADA's first Research Symposium slated for March 14-15 prior to the 2009 Region IV Conference in Starkville, Miss.

The Symposium is open to all NACADA members interested in doing research in the field of advising. Modest in cost (only $75!), Symposium participants will work directly with scholars in the field. Bring ideas and leave with an action plan for your research! 

Find out more or contact Kathleen Smith.

Charlie Nutt, Executive Director, has developed a blog for members to discuss with him issues involving academic advising, student success, higher education, and the association. You can access the blog on the NACADA homepage (www.nacada.ksu.edu) to read his comments and then sign-in to comment and discuss.

The slate of candidates for the 2009 NACADA Leadership elections is available on the NACADA website. Each candidate's platform statement will be linked to her/his name on this list for your review within the next few weeks. Additional details on the 2009 elections and online voting procedures will be sent to members and will also be available soon on the election webpage.

NOTE: Only those individuals whose NACADA memberships are current and paid in full as of Friday, January 30, 2009, will be eligible to vote in the 2009 elections. If you know of individuals whose memberships expired on September 1, 2008 and have not yet been renewed, please encourage them to complete this renewal immediately to secure their voting privileges for NACADA's future leadership.

At the Annual Conference in Chicago, many of you signed up for the Commission and Interest Group (CIG) list serves either at the CIG Fair or on signup sheets circulated at the annual meetings for these groups. The task of updating these list serves accordingly was recently completed. For instructions on posting messages to the list serves, please visit this webpage and click on the link(s) for the applicable list serve(s). Instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing to these list serves are also available.

Your observance of network etiquette is encouraged and appreciated when communicating via these lists.

Thank you for your interest in and participation on these list serves!  Remember -- these list serves may not be used to promote commercial products, programs or services, job announcements, or for campaigning purposes. If you have a job announcement that you would like to post, please e-mail your announcements to us via nacada@ksu.edu for posting on the NACADA Position Announcements pages.

To help minimize the number of e-mails you receive that are generated from list serves, you might want to consider setting up each of your list subscriptions for the "digest" mode.  All you need to do is send an e-mail using only the following command in the body of the message, where "listname" is the list's ID (such as N-ADVADMIN for the Advising Administration Commission list serve):

SET listname DIGEST

Leave the subject line blank. Be sure to delete any signature lines and/or turn off auto-inclusion of your signature file before sending the above command. (LISTSERV treats signature lines as commands and will send error messages saying "unknown command".)

Should you set the digest mode and then decide later that you prefer the original format and want to turn off the digest mode, follow the same procedures as outlined above, but include the following command in the e-mail body:

Set listname mail

Note: A downside to using the digest format is that each time you reply to the list, all of the history that is there gets posted to the digest every time. It could make the digested e-mails too long to bother reading unless you can convince other subscribers to edit their e-mails to remove all of the history.

Note: NACADA list serves may not always support attachments, primarily due to the risk of viruses. To share information in document form with other subscribers, it is best to post it on your institution's website and provide a direct link, or ask colleagues to contact you individually to request that the information be sent to them directly. You could also include the text directly in your e-mail posting.

Please welcome the following new Interest Group Chairs recently appointed to the NACADA leadership. Contact information for these Chairs is on the Interest Group's website at the applicable link below. Many thanks to the outgoing Chairs for these Interest Groups whose time and efforts while serving in these leadership roles are truly appreciated!

Darren Francis -- new Canada Interest Group Chair, replacing Natasha Buis who served as Chair from 2006-2008. 

Les Ridingin -- Native American & Tribal College Interest Group Chair, replacing Adrienne Thunder who served as Chair from 2003-2008, and Iona Black, co-Chair from 2004-2008.

Andrea Harris -- Probation/Dismissal/Reinstatement Issues Interest Group Chair, replacing Chris Maroldo who served as Chair from 2006-2008.

Kelly O'Sullivan -- Study Abroad Advising Interest Group Chair, replacing Jodi Malmgren who served as Chair from 2004-2008.

Click for a complete directory of the NACADA Leadership.