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Who are our Facilitators?

Betsy McCalla-Wriggins

NACADA Past-President

Rowan University

Betsy McCalla-Wriggins is Director Emeritus of the Career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. In 1992, Betsy initiated the discussions for and then facilitated the creation of this fully integrated center. The center continues to provide academic and career advising for undeclared and change of major students as well as job search strategy advising for all students and alumni.

Betsy publishes and presents nationally on topics related to the Integration of Academic and Career Advising. In addition to numerous presentations on this topic at NACADA Annual Conferences and NACADA Summer Institutes, she co-facilitated a pre-conference entitled Academic and Career Advising: Focus on the First Year at the 2008 Annual Conference on the First Year Experience in San Francisco. In April 2007, she was one of three panelists for a National Teleconference on Academic and Career Advising: Keys to Student Success sponsored by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

Betsy served as President of NACADA from 2001-2003.

Joanne Damminger

Director of Student Transition and Leadership Programs

Rowan University

As the Director of Student Transition and Leadership Programs at Rowan University, Joanne Damminger's work focuses on designing first-year and sophomore-year experiences to increase student satisfaction, academic success, intentional learning, social adjustment, and retention. Additionally, she directs major events such as Freshman and Transfer Orientations and enjoys teaching in Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership.

Joanne coordinates a comprehensive first-year learning community for undeclared students that highlights in- and out- of the classroom student interactions while emphasizing advising as teaching. The community serves as a model for career advising as it integrates career and academic advising to help students explore themselves and majors while creating and implementing educational choices and career plans.

Joanne presents nationally and internationally on the topics of the first-year experience, creating living/learning communities and helping students to become intentional learners. She has presented nationally and regionally on career counseling topics such as Resume Writing, Interviewing and Job Searching. Some of Joanne’s current activities include serving on the NACADA Consultant’s Bureau Advisory Board and as Chair of the Finance Committee. Joanne served as a faculty member for NACADA‘s 21st Academic Advising Summer Institute in Salt Lake City and will be joining the Summer Institute this July in New Orleans. She is currently co-editing and writing for the proposed “Handbook of Career Advising” anticipated for publication this fall and she anticipates a publication in the American Journal of Business Education this spring titled “Adding Value to the First-Year Experience: Embedding Self and Major Exploration in the College of Business Curriculum.” Joanne also published “A Collaborative, Holistic Career Development Program for Business Students” in the NACE Journal (March 2007) and wrote the chapter “Self-Assessment: Relevance and Value in the First-Year” for the NACADA and FYE monograph entitled Academic Advising: New Insights for Teaching and Learning in the First Year.

Joanne was named to the Rowan University Wall of Fame for her contributions to academic advising in 2007 and 2008, and she received the Rowan University D.W.S. Hoffner Award for Outstanding Administrator and the Outstanding Greek Advisor Award in 2007.