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Categories:

  1. Academic Advising-Primary Role — Individuals whose primary role at the institution is the direct delivery of advising services to students.
  2. Faculty Academic Advising — Individuals whose primary responsibility is teaching and who spend a portion of their time providing academic advising services to students.
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Eligibility:

  1. Any individual serving as an academic advisor or faculty academic advisor for three (3) or fewer years, and is employed by a regionally accredited post-secondary institution may be nominated.  NACADA membership is not required.
  2. Current members of the Board of Directors and Council are not eligible for consideration for this award. After the member's term of office is over, s/he may then be eligible for consideration.
  3. Previous Outstanding New Advisor Award winners or Certificate of Merit recipients are not eligible. Previous Outstanding Advising Award winners or Certificate of Merit recipients are not eligible.
  4. Only one nominee per category per institution will be considered.

Criteria:
The Selection Committee will evaluate nominations on the evidence of qualities and practices that distinguish the nominee as an outstanding academic advisor, faculty advisor, or advising administrator.  Such evidence may include:

  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Availability to advisees, faculty, or staff
  • Frequency of contact with advisees
  • Appropriate referral activity
  • Use and dissemination of appropriate information sources
  • Evidence of student success rate, by advisor or department
  • Caring, helpful attitude toward advisees, faculty and staff
  • Meeting advisees in informal settings
  • Participation in and support of intrusive advising to build strong relationships with advisees
  • Monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals
  • Mastery of institutional regulations, policies, and procedures
  • Ability to engage in, promote, and support developmental advising
  • Evidence of administering an academic advising program that supportsNACADA's Core Values
  • Evidence that the advising program reflects the standards of good practice in the CAS Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising 
  • Participation in and support of advisor development programs
  • Perception by colleagues of nominee's advising skills
  • Institutional recognition of nominee for outstanding advising

Submission Procedures:
Nominations must contain adequate factual or narrative material that describes the extent to which an individual meets the awards criteria. Include the following items and use objective data to support the nomination. 

  1. A completed Nomination Form signed by the nominee and the chief administrative officer responsible for the nominee's academic advising position.  Submissions lacking appropriate signatures will not be evaluated.
  2. A summary of the nominee's qualifications.  In this key piece, the nominator should summarize the extent to which the nominee meets the award criteria, citing letters of support, data, or other materials illustrative of exemplary performance as an academic advisor or a faculty advisor.
  3. Nominee resume or vita.  Please limit entries to material that pertains directly to academic advising, presenting relevant information from the nominee's overall resume/vita. Please include a current job position description or list of job responsibilities.
  4. Nominee's personal statement on advising
  5. Appendices which support the summary (item 2), such as:
    1. representative materials developed by the nominee
    2. letters of support from advisees, colleagues, and administrators
    3. other pertinent information from nominator

    Appendices should be limited to not more than 20 pages (20 sheets of paper printed front and back).

* No binders, please.

* All materials must be collated.

* Sections may be divided by a title page (colored paper may be used for this purpose, if desired), and the entire packet should be stapled together.

* Packets that do not include all required materials will not be considered.

* Nomination packets must include only original documentation prepared specifically for the NACADA Awards Program. Materials intended for other award programs will not be considered.

Eight (8) complete sets of the Nomination Form and supporting materials (cannot be returned) must be submitted to arrive no later than Monday, March 1, 2010, to: 

NACADA Annual Awards Program
National Academic Advising Association 
Kansas State University
2323 Anderson Avenue, Suite 225 
Manhattan, KS   66502-2912

NOTE: It is recommended that nomination materials be sent by a shipping service for which delivery can be tracked. NACADA always sends an e-mail confirmation to the nominator upon receipt of each submission.   Contact NACADA at nacada@ksu.edu if you do not receive an e-mail confirming receipt of your nomination materials within a couple of days after you have tracked and confirmed delivery online.

 
NACADA Executive Office
Kansas State University
2323 Anderson Avenue, Suite 225
Manhattan, KS  66502-2912
Phone: (785) 532-5717   Fax: (785) 532-7732
e-mail: nacada@ksu.edu

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