The Registration Brochure will be bulk mailed this week to everyone who received these highlights. Allow up to three weeks for delivery—in the meantime, the entire brochure is available online now.

The brochure has details on Pre-Conference Workshops, hotel reservations, the NACADA choir, airline and AVIS discounts, optional tours, a networking opportunity for new advisors, both keynote speakers, and highlights of events.

The conference features two outstanding keynote speakers. Patrick T. Terenzini of Penn State University will deliver the October 18 opening address From Myopia to Systemic Thinking. Sharon Fries-Britt of the University of Maryland-College Park will speak October 20. Her research has focused on the experiences of high-ability minority students, specifically from academic, social and racial perspectives.

A good way to get involved and meet new people is to volunteer for a couple of hours at the conference. Sign up by contacting Bethany Spore at: bethany.spore@umbc.edu.

The brochure lists over 350 individual sessions sorted by advising tracks, so you can find presentations relating to your advising interests. Here are a few sample program titles on current advising topics:

• After Training, What's Next? Creating and Nurturing a Strong Advisor Development Program
• What Is Multicultural Advising, and What Makes Advising Multicultural?
• Freshman Advising Guidebook: A GPS for Helping Students Navigate Their College Journey
• From High School to College: Navigating Students from Lost to Survivor

21st Annual

Academic Advising Summer Institute

Salt Lake City, Utah

July 29-August 3

Reserve your hotel room immediately!

This intensive, week-long Institute is centered around the goal of exploring all aspects of academic advising and then developing practical, individualized Action Plans for enhancement of academic advising on your campuses.

A great line-up of general sessions, topical sessions and workshops will be presented to:

• 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.

To review special benefits to your program and the schedule of topics, and to register for an Institute, visit the Summer Institute webpage. There's still time to register! Questions: matteson@ksu.edu.

Begin planning now for 2007-08 Professional Development opportunities on your campus!

During our initial Webinar Series in 2006-07 - on large campuses and small ones - at 2-year and 4-year institutions - Academic Advisors and Advising Administrators all across the United States and Canada found the Webinar format to be "ideal" for creating and sharing professional development opportunities.  (Click here to read some of their responses.)

The first season was so successful that there will be twice as many offerings in the 2007-08 Webinar Series!  Advising-related topics include mental health issues in academic advising, relevant legal issues, transfer issues, emerging technology, student success, diversity issues, and more.  View broadcast dates and titles here. 

The Webinar format is especially useful for stimulating dialogue between faculty advisors, full-time advisors and advising administrators at the unit, department or campus-wide level.  All you need is a meeting room with an Internet-connected computer and projection capability.  Participants from previous events recommend that you also consider designating a facilitator and planning time for discussion before and after the broadcast.  Handouts and discussion ideas will be provided by each of our Event Presenters.

Participation is limited by our Service Provider to the first 200 registrants, so don't delay - Mark your calendars and begin securing your funding TODAY!  Plan to register early and SAVE!  Click here to find out how you can save $10 on each registration AND receive the entire set of 11 CD recordings of the broadcasts, including the Question & Answer segments (a $1,375 value) FREE!

An ongoing question for academic advising in the 21st Century is How can we use emerging technology to better reach and teach our students in advising? Have you and your colleagues initiated programs or developed tools that offer an answer to this question?  Have you already discovered the possibilities of social networking, virtual worlds, cell phones as digital gateway, or content creation for academic advising?  Now is the time to be recognized!

Karen Thurmond (University of Memphis), Coordinator for the Webinar entitled “On the Horizon: Future Scenarios for Academic Advising and Technology,” which will be broadcast on December 12, 2007, seeks your input to this event. Member ideas and innovations will be explored in the Webinar. Karen wants to hear from you, whether you would like to personally share what you are doing as an event co-presenter or would simply like to share your ideas in event handouts.

Click here to learn more – and don’t delay! The deadline is August 1!

Would you like to propose a topic for the 2008-09 Webinar Series?  The Webinar Advisory Board would like to hear what topics YOU would like to see presented in this format - and, they would also like you to see what considerations they will be addressing in choosing their topic list.

Click here to review their rubric and submit your ideas.  Submissions will be accepted until October 1.

The NACADA Commission and Interest Group Division received an additional proposal to form a Potential Interest Group for Advising Military Students and Dependents. 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 Lisa Keenan, 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 (with a link to each webpage):

• Academic Coaching - Bill Johnson, Chair
• Ethics & Legal Issues in Advising - Aura Rios Erickson, Chair

• History of Academic Advising - Eric White, Chair
• Advising First-Year Students - Laura Mooney, Chair

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 or complete the online Designation Form. 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 online form and previous choices will be replaced.

Information is now available on the 2008 NACADA Leadership elections, including a list of positions to be elected, leadership position overviews, eligibility criteria, general election information, and an online nomination form. Election information and printed nomination forms will also be available in the NACADA booth in the Exhibits area at the Annual Conference in Baltimore and in the back of the printed Conference program. Nomination forms can be submitted either online, at the Conference, or by fax or mail. All nominations will be due to the Executive Office by Friday, November 2, 2007.

NACADA maintains over 60 list serves for global discussions of academic advising issues. Subscribers are encouraged to use these lists for questions and discussion on a variety of advising topics.

NACADA does not provide automatic enrollment to its list serves. Directions to subscribe and unsubscribe can be found on each list's home page. General list serve policies can also be reviewed on this webpage.

Network etiquette (often referred to as "netiquette") is the informal rules and procedures established for users of e-mail and list serves to provide them with some simple guidelines to make these electronic communication tools more enjoyable and less annoying or bothersome. Since all NACADA Commissions and Interest Groups have their own list serves, the Commission and Interest Group Division (CIGD) put together a summary of guidelines that subscribers are encouraged to follow when posting messages and communicating electronically via any of these lists. These guidelines can be found here on the CIGD website. A link to these guidelines can also be found on the NACADA list serves webpage.

Please note that NACADA list serves cannot be used for commercial purposes of any type. Subscribers who send messages for commercial purposes will be immediately removed from all list serves. List serves are also not to be used to post job announcements. If you have a position announcement you would like to post, please utilize the NACADA Position Announcements webpages.

We are currently reviewing manuscripts for the September edition of NACADA's quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today. Among those accepted for publication are:

• "Narrative Theory and Academic Advising" by Peter L. Hagen (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
• "Intrusive Advising" by Jennifer Varney (Hesser College)

• "The Role of Silence in Academic Advising" by Sarah May Clarkson (Juniata College)

We are also accepting article and *Sparkler* submissions for possible publication in the December edition (submission deadline September 1). 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: Do transfer students at your institution have a hard time adjusting to your campus? In this month's featured article Karen Thurmond, The University of Memphis, discusses "Transfer Shock: Why is a Term Forty Years Old Still Relevant?"

The NACADA Journal is in the mail!  Over 10,000 copies of the Journal have left the printer and should appear in members' mailboxes in the coming days.  A sample of the articles you can expect to read includes:

• Academic Advisors and Students with Disabilities: A National Survey of Advisors’ Experiences and Needs
• Academic Advising as Perceived by Business Students
• Charting the Verbiage of Institutional Vision: Implications for Academic Advising

Looking for something to read until the Journal reaches your doorstep? Consider reviewing a book for the NACADA Journal. Several new titles are available through the Book Review Website. Publishers donate review copies of recently published books to NACADA in order that members might be aware of new literature in the field. Members are encouraged to read recently published reviews and patronize the publishers who donate review copies. Reviewers must be current NACADA members and are limited to one review per year. Books requested now count for the 2007-08 member year. Reviewers have three months from the receipt of the book to read and write the review. The book becomes the property of the reviewer upon acceptance of the review for publication.

Coming this fall! A new monograph, Advising Special Student Populations. This monograph will include chapters by experts in the field and Exemplary Practices in the Academic Advising of:

• Adult learners
• LGBTQ students
• Multicultural students
• Students on probation 
• Two-year college students
• Undecided students

Watch the Highlights for future announcements regarding this and other NACADA publications!

CONSIDER THIS:  Sets of the NACADA Webinar Series CDs and the Foundations of Advising Series CDs can provide institution-wide professional development for faculty advisors, professional advisors, new advising staff, counselors and administrators to:

• learn why academic advising is important to your campus
• share the significance of effective academic advising in student persistence and retention
• view as part of a formal professional development training session
• view individually when convenient for staff members
• save time and travel expenses
• schedule training when timely for you or your campus

Recordings of live broadcasts made by presenters who are actively involved in academic advising on their campuses:

1. Advising as Teaching - Nancy King
2. Academic Advising Syllabus:  Advising as Teaching in Action - Karen Thurmond
3. Components of a Successful Faculty Advising Program:  Institutional Commitment, Professional Development Incentives, and Recognition - Jayne Drake
4. Student Learning Outcomes:  Evidence of the Teaching and Learning Components of Academic Advising - Tomarra Adams
5. Expanding Your Comfort Zone:  Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising - Blane Harding

Order the complete set and save $50. Accompanying Pocket Guides are included with the complete set or may be purchased individually for only $5 each. For more information and to order click here.

2006-07 Foundations of Advising Series CDs & Pocket Guides

The Foundations Series provides invaluable information to those new to the advising field as well as to those who need a refresher on these academic advising concepts. 

The Foundations Series CDs provide academic advising principles focusing on:

• what comprises effective academic advising
• academic advising delivery models
• understanding cultural identity and worldview development

Order the complete set and save $30.  For more information and to order click here.

Pocket Guides are small "study guides" written to accompany CDs in the Webinar and Foundations of Advising Series that contain information adapted from each CD.  They are approximately 30-32 pages in length and may be purchased individually for $5 per copy. Click here to order.

Valuable professional development AND graduate credit all in one! The Graduate Certificate Program provides an applicable educational experience while building credits toward a graduate degree and resulting in a Graduate Certificate specifically in Academic Advising. The 15-semester hour Certificate is available totally on-line through Kansas State University and will be offering three courses for the August-December term:

• Multicultural Advising
• The College Student and the College Environment
• Learning Principles

Students enrolling in the Program must be admitted to the K-State Graduate School. You can find out how to begin the application process here. These courses may transfer if you are pursuing a graduate degree at another institution.

Apply now to assure that you meet the fall semester enrollment deadline of August 20. For more information visit the program webpage.

A total of 26 NCAA Division I institutions sent administrators, staff and faculty to the first-ever “Academic Reform Institute: A Game Plan for Student-Athlete Success” held May 30 – June 1 in Colorado Springs.

This Institute is an initiative developed through a partnership between NACADA and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). A key intent of the Institute is to encourage collaboration among campus offices involved in the process of ensuring student-athlete academic success. The format included educational sessions, institutional team consultations and small group discussions presented by faculty comprised of professionals in academic advising and athletics. Those serving as faculty were: Ruth Darling (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Susan Campbell (University of Southern Maine), Mary Howard-Hamilton (Indiana State University), Phil Hughes (Kansas State University), Pamela Marsh-Williams (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Charlie Nutt (Kansas State University), Jack Rivas (University of California, Santa Barbara), Janice Robinson (Auburn University), Ronald Slaughter (Alabama A&M University) and James “Rod” Wyatt (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).

Each institutional team participated as a member of a small group and was required to develop an action plan addressing a specific area for improvement to implement upon return to campus.

The globalization of NACADA continues as we see more interest from international institutions in membership and services. Along with our long time relationship with our Canadian members and institutions and our more recent partnership with the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom, we have members from the following countries: Australia, Bahamas, Bulgaria, Canada, Egypt, England, Grenada, India, Jamaica, Kuwait, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea and United Arab Emirates. Most of these members have found us either through our events, the Internet, or through an international meeting in which NACADA was involved. We hope to further strengthen our international presence and welcome any contacts that our current members might have to assist us in sharing our work with others.

NACADA members having a membership expiration date of September 1, 2007 will receive renewal forms in late July or early August. Please complete and return the renewal form with payment to the Executive Office to ensure continued membership benefits. Thank you for your continued support of NACADA!

The 4th International Conference on Research in Access and Developmental Education, September 24-28, 2008, brings researchers and practitioners together to discuss how developmental students can best be served. The conference is designed to provide a forum relevant to educators in the U.S. and Europe, wherein practitioners not only learn the most modern, research-based techniques for serving underprepared students; they also provide researchers with guidance on emerging issues requiring further research. One feature of the conference, the research brainstorming brunch, will help set the agenda for future research. The conference also promises the opportunity for a living/learning experience in the Spanish culture of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Registration and Call for Proposals are posted on the National Center for Developmental Education website: www.ncde.appstate.edu.