Section 1: Identify the leadership within your unit.

List members of your steering committees, committee members, task force members, conference chairs, etc. & their emails.

Name of Committee	Name of Committee Member	Email
Advising Business Majors Commission Chair	Karen Boston	kboston@walton.uark.edu

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Section 2: Outline your annual activities as they relate to the NACADA missions and strategies.

Mission 1: Address the academic advising needs of higher education.

Strategies:

1-B
Collect information about the environments in which academic advising operates. Through surveys, focus groups or other means, determine how academic advising best operates in higher education and determine if success is determined by particular variables - delivery model by institutional type, intrusiveness, processes for specific populations, etc.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Continue discussions related to types of advising models in business schools including those which are conducive for dealing with oversubsribed programs. With the help of NACADA, develop survey of advising models and advising ratios for business schools.	Solicit volunteers for subcommittee to engage in research.	2005-02-01	2005-06-01

1-D
Provide comprehensive professional development opportunities to the academic advising community. Identify, develop, and deliver professional development activities and resources to meet the needs of the academic advising community - including institutions, central administrators, full-time advisors, faculty advisors, and peer advisors.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Continue to offer commission members the opportunity to facilitate topics related to advising business majors at national conferences similar to the commission meeting session in Cincinnati.	Karen Boston	2005-04-01	2005-06-01

Mission 2: Advance the body of knowledge of academic advising.

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Mission 3: Champion the educational role of academic advising to enhance student learning and development in a diverse world.

Strategies:

3-A
Identify and develop strategies for fostering collaboration with various advising constituencies. Seek collaborative relationships with academic and student services related associations, discipline specific organizations, higher education associations, and accrediting agencies to promote the importance of academic advising.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Educate commission members about AACSB issues related to academic advising. Continue to explore possibilities for NACADA to offer finanical support for commission chair to attend AACSB conferences.	Karen Boston	2004-12-04	2020-05-11	Karen Boston will attend the AACSB conference in Dallas, Texas on December 4-7 with support from her institution.

Mission 4: Affirm the role of academic advising in supporting institutional mission and vitality.

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Mission 5: Promote the involvement of diverse populations in the Association.

Strategies:

5-C
Expand growth opportunities. Identify and promote opportunities for involvement by new members and leaders. Identify methods for reaching new populations with advising professional development opportunities.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Identify commission members who offer "expertise" in the areas of issues related to advising business majors and include them in list serve correspondence and dialog, solicit them to put forth proposals for state, regional and national conferences, and facilitate commission related programming (ex: commission fair, commission meeting, commission hot topic sessions).	Karen Boston	2005-02-01	2005-10-01
Solicit commission members who are willing to submit NACADA journal articles and/or submit a book report.	Karen Boston	2005-03-01	2005-06-01
Identify commission member for nomination for NACADA commission award.	Karen Boston solicit - subcommittee determine nominees.	2005-03-01	2005-05-01

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Section 3: Issues/Items for consideration by the Division, Council or Board of Directors.

Issue/Item	Details
AACSB	Although this has been requested previously, I believe it important that if a goal of the Advising Business Majors commission is to develop a liaison with AACSB, NACADA should consider some limited financial support toward funding the commission chair to attend a relevant AACSB conference in the future.

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Section 4: List Volunteer Opportunities Available in your Unit.

Volunteer Opportunity	Details
Research	Participate on a subcommittee to determine research related to advising models and advising ratios for business schools involved in NACADA.
Book report	Submit a book review of advising business majors for NACADA submission.
Journal Article	Submit a journal article related to advising business majors for NACADA journal.
Presentations	Submit proposals to state, regional and national conferences on issues related to advising business majors.
Information Fair	Assist commission chair with commission/interest group information fair at National conferences.
Proposal reviewer	Review proposals for advising business majors for the National conference.
Facilitator	Facilitate mini chat sessions and/or hot topic sessions related to advising business majors at National conference.
list serve Dialog	Solicit and generate dialog on list serve on topics and issues related to advising business majors.
Commission Award	Serve on subcommittee to nominate commission award winner to NACADA.

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Section 5: Summary of Annual Commission Meeting

The Advising Business Majors Commission meeting was held October 7, 2004 in Cincinnati. Approximately 50 members were in attendance. Karen Boston, Commission Chair, welcomed members and recognized Lauren Wass and FIU's College of Business Undergraduate Student Services website for their NACADA award for Electronic Publication - Certificate of Merit. In addition, Boston recognized and thanked Lucy Robbins, Lauren Wass, Theres Stiefer, and Joe Rojo for facilitating the mini chat sessions during the commission meeting - a different approach to the meeting, but an opportunity to address the topics and issues developed at the commission meeting at the national conference in 2003. Topics were voted on by commission membership and included: Assessment, Advising Technology, Career Planning and Placement, and Faculty Advising. Boston also thanked Patricia Kriska and Calley Stevens for facilitating the HOT TOPIC session, Dealing with Oversubscribed Programs to be held on October 9, 2004 at the close of the conference. Boston asked that members complete the evaluations and include their feedback from the meeting but also to include goals they would like to see for the commission, what they would like to see on the website, what they would like the commission to do, and what they would like to do at commission meetings. In general, attendees liked the idea, but the space was not conducive to the session. Boston hopes that NACADA will consider the opportunity to pursue this format in the future and have the necessary setup. The HOT TOPIC session was held on October 9, 2004 and approximately 15 people attended the session. Much of the feedback on this session was related to continuing more discussions. It is possible that future commission meetings could divide members by institution type and areas of interests as people enjoy the networking and sharing of ideas.