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Do you administer an advising department or manage a staff that includes advisors? The following resources are a combination of articles written by fellow NACADA members, content created with the help of members and Executive Office staff and other curated resources that administrators might find helpful in their work.

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Articles 2010 - present:

Leadership in Higher Education: Insights from Academic Advisers, The Mentor, 2019
42 Resources for Women in Leadership and Business, University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School, 2018
Want Better Outcomes? Take a Hammer to Your Company's Glass Ceiling, The Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University, 2017
Design a Sustainable Online Advising Option, Academic Advising Today, 2017
From the Ground Up: Creating an In-House Professional Development Opportunities, Academic Advising Today, 2017
Space Considerations for Advising, by Marsha Miller, 2017
Succeeding in the Move from Advisor to Advising Administrator, by Robert Detwiler & Wiona Porath, 2015
Chart your advising resources with a simple economic analysis: A case study, by Josh Whiting and Susan Poch, 2014
Promoting trust through effective advising administration, The Mentor, 2014
Stress management, by Jeffrey L. McClellan, 2012
Office design research study, by James Eckerty, 2011
Creativity in academic advising, by Chris Huebner, 2011
2011 NACADA National Survey of Academic Advising, NACADA
Advising Administration at a time of financial crisis, Academic Advising Today, 2010
Defining advising stakeholder groups, by Julianne Messia, 2010
Leading change, by Jeffrey L. McClellan, 2010
2010 Administrator Professional Development Needs Survey

Articles prior to 2010:

Safety issues in the workplace, by Steven Stolar, 2009
Maslow, meaning and me: A theorist’s guide to advising administration, by Karen Sullivan-Vance and Sarah Ann Hones, 2009
Observations on life as an academic advising administrator, via Academic Advising Today, 2008
New advising administrators, by Renee F. Borns, 2007
Evaluation of academic advisors, by Scott Gabbert and Mary Jean Lynch, 2007
Generational issues in the advising workplace, by Margaret J. Steele and Virginia N. Gordon, 2006
Responding from an administrative perspective, via Academic Advising Today, 2004
Determining the worth of an advising unit, by Tom Grites, 2003
Fees for advising, by William Fleming, 2003
Women's issues in higher education administration, via Academic Advising Today, 2002
Women administrators, by Alice G. Reinarz, 2002

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