Academic Advising Resources

In our efforts to stay current on happenings in the field of higher education, the Content Team at the Executive Office has compiled this list of organizations, articles, and topics relating to higher education legislation and policy. This index was created to aid advisors who seek to inform themselves on various national higher education policy priorities. The index is comprised of outside organizations’ research as well as NACADA sources on relevant topics.

Access to Higher Education

NACADA Resources

• On the College Access and Opportunity Act and Federal Regulation of Transfer Credit Policies, Academic Advising Today, 2005
• Reflections of a College President: When Access is Not Enough, or the Significance of Academic Advising, Academic Advising Today, 2009

Other Resources

• Flagships Go National, via the Washington Post, 2018
• A University by, of, and for the People, New York Times, 2018
• The Rural Higher Education Crisis, The Atlantic, 2017
• Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education to Individuals and Society, College Board, 2013
• Access & Success Publications, Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2017
• Minority Male STEM Initiative, Association of Public & Land Grant Universities, 2017
• Increasing College Access and Success for Low Income Students, Center for Poverty Research, University of California-Davis, 2017
• The KnowHow2Go Campaign on College Access, American Council on Education, 2017
• Three Questions for Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, 2017
• Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants, Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2007
• The Effects of Student Financial Aid on Access to Higher Education: An Analysis of Progress with Special Consideration of Minority Enrollment, Research in Higher Education, 1989
• Completion Grants, Association for Public & Land Grant Universities, 2017
• Letter of Support for the Dream Act of 2017, American Council on Education, 2017

Accountability & Transparency

NACADA Resources

• Advising is Teaching: Advising, Accountability, and Assessment, Academic Advising Today, 2007
• From the Executive Director: Changing the Profession and Higher Education, Academic Advising Today, 2012

Other Resources

• Students and Faculty Scour University Budgets for Proof of Waste, Unfair Pay, via the Hechlinger Report, 2018
• Students Want Faster Degrees. Colleges are Responding, via the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018
• Remedial Classes Have Become a Hidden Cost of College, The Washington Post, 2015
• Accreditation & Accountability, Association of American Universities, 2017
• Summary: The Campus Accountability & Safety Act, American Council on Education, 2017
• Accountability & Transparency, Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2017
• A Discussion on Higher Education Accountability, Forbes, 2015
• Taxpayers and Students Deserve Accountability from Higher Education, US News & World Report, 2016
• How to Hold Colleges Accountable, New York Times, 2015
• To Ease Student Debt, Hold Colleges Responsible, Five Thirty-Eight, 2017

Affordability & Financial Aid

NACADA Resources

• College Affordability: The Central Role for Academic Advisors, Academic Advising Today, 2017
• From the President: Four Challenges, Academic Advising Today, 2017
• An Advisor's Primer to the Language of Budgeting, Academic Advising Today, 2011

Other Resources

• How Community Colleges Can Be Better Than Four-Year Schools, via The Washington Post, 2018
• Advising and the Completion Agenda: Key Voices in Higher Education, 2017
• ICYMI - Paying for Higher Education, The CPA Journal, 2017
• Seven Challenges Facing Higher Education, Forbes, 2017
• Four Things Colleges Should Do to Rein in Costs, Washington Post, 2015
• Colleges Slash Tuition to Eliminate Sticker Shock, U.S. News and World Report, 2015
• How Luxury Dorms Hurt Universities, The Atlantic, 2017
• Saving For College: 529 Plans, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2016
• Higher Education Affordability Act, Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities, 2008
• College Affordability and Completion: Ensuring a Pathway to Opportunity, U.S Department of Education, 2017
• The Hiddent Cost of College: Rising Student Fees, The Washington Post, 2017
• Looking More Closely at Student Debt, Association of American Universities, 2017
• Saving Public Higher Education, AAU President Mary Sue Coleman speech at the World Academic Summit, Association of American Universities, 2017
• Cost Containment: A Survey of Current Practices at America’s State Colleges and Universities, American Association of State Colleges & Universities
• The Gallup-Purdue Index 2015 Report, Gallup Polling-Purdue University, 2015
• "Back a Boiler" Program, Purdue University Research Foundation, 2017
• Evolving Higher Education Business Models, American Council on Education, 2016
• Policy Priority: Enhance Affordability and Reshape College Finance Systems, Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2017
• Tuition Policy, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2015
• Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society, The College Board, 2013
• The Fiscal Impacts of College Attainment, Research in Higher Education, 2010
• States that tie higher education funding to performance have it all wrong, report says, The Washington Post, 2016
• Student Loan Debt, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2015
• The Tennessee Promise

Critical Communities, Diversity & Immigration

NACADA Resources

• A Plan for Diversity, Academic Advising Today, 2013
• Diversity in Transfer, Academic Advising Today, 2005
• Diversity, Culture, and Identity in America's Research Universities, Academic Advising Today, 2016
• In Limbo: Challenges Faced by Undocumented Students in Higher Education, Academic Advising Today, 2015

Other Resources

• The Students Who Don't Believe Higher Education Is An Option, via The Atlantic, 2018
• The Vanishing Latino Male in Higher Education, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2009 
• Undocumented Student Tuition Overview, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2015
• Higher Education Organizations Urge U.S. Senate to Pass the DREAM Act, Association of American Universities, 2016
• Critical Communities & Institutions Publications, Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2017
• Diverse: Issues in Education, diverseeducation.com, 2017
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence, Association of American Colleges & Universities, 2017
• Advancing Diversity & Inclusion in Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education, 2016
• National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, 2017

Government Relations, Lobbying, & Higher Education Legislation

NACADA Resources

• On The College Access and Opportunity Act and Federal Regulation of Transfer Credit Policies, Academic Advising Today, 2005

Other Resources

• Legislator Perceptions of Student Lobbyists, James Krotz & Lisa Rubin, Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2017
• Liberal Indoctrination? Not So Much, via Inside HigherEd, 2018
• State Funding Cuts Matter, Inside Higher Ed, 2017
•  As Cuomo Proposal Rekindles Free College Movement, New Research Provides Ammunition for Skeptics, Brookings Institute, 2017
• Free College Keeps Growing as Arkansas, Indiana, Montana, and Rhode Island Join In, American Association of State Colleges & Universities, 2017
• A New Morrill Act, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2016
• Higher Education Act of 1965, U.S. House of Representatives Legal Counsel, 2017
• Higher Education Legislation, Association of American Universities, 2017
• Higher Education Policy, Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities, 2017
• Higher Education Act, American Council on Education, 2017
• Higher Education Legislation in 2016, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2016 
• Top 10 Higher Education State Policy Issues for 2017, American Association of State Colleges & Universities, 2017
• Size and Strength of Lobbying in Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, 2015
• Lobbying for Higher Education: How Colleges and Universities Influence Federal Policy, University of Chicago Press, 1999
• 2017 Higher Education Government Relations Conference

Innovative Practices & Competitiveness

NACADA Resources

• Inspiration & Innovation: The Value of Pursuing "Wouldn't It Be Cool" Projects in Challenging Times, Academic Advising Today, 2010
• From the President: We Were Nothing Daunted, Academic Advising Today, 2011
• The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic & Career Advising, Academic Advising Today, 2006

Other Resources

• How Maine Became a Laboratory for the Future of Public Higher Ed, via the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018
• University Ventures
• University Innovation Alliance
• Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership, Arizona State University & Georgetown University, 2017
• Innovation in Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education, 1960
• Toward a Constructivist Framework for Guiding Change and Innovation in Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education, 1999
• The Future of Higher Education Depends on Innovation, Forbes, 2014
• Innovation & Competitiveness, Association of American Universities, 2017
• A grounded theory of instructional innovation in higher education, Journal of Higher Education, 1985
• Seven Things Higher Ed Innovators Want You To Know, Campus Technology, 2016
• Colleges Must Change to Educate Generation I-Phone, Forbes, 2017

Labor & Workforce Development

NACADA Resources

• The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic & Career Advising, Academic Advising Today, 2006
• Weaving Career Advising Into Academic Advising, Academic Advising Today, 2016
• What is Your Career Advising I.Q?, Academic Advising Today, 2005
• Applying Career and Identity Development Theories Into Advising, Academic Advising Today, 2013
• Why Choosing a Major is Not Choosing a Career...And Not The End of the World, Academic Advising Today, 2011
• Helping Students Weather the Storm: Career Advising in Tough Economic Times, Academic Advising Today, 2009

Other

• A Legislator's Guide to Workforce Data, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2017
• The Changing Role of Community Colleges in Workforce Development, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2014
• Labor & Workforce Development, American Council on Education, 2017
• The Business-Higher Education Forum
• How to Keep Up When Our Careers Keep Changing, by Jeffrey Selingo via LinkedIn, 2017