NACADA Commission and Interest Group Division

2004 Post-Conference Unit Report

Commission:   ESL and International Student Advising Commission

Chair:  Lizette Bartholdi

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
ESL/International Student Advising	Lizette Bartholdi	barth028@umn.edu
ESL/International Student Advising	Leroy Morgan	morgan@findlay.edu
ESL/International Student Advising	Amy Van Surksum	avansurksum@csbsju.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-A
Identify, prioritize, and address critical issues facing academic advising. Through surveys and needs assessments, identify the issues facing academic advising in higher education and propose methods for addressing these issues - from recognition of advising as a critical component of student success to the recognition of advisors as critical to the educational/developmental process.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Assessing what kind of support ESL/International Students need on college campus to ensure adjustment.	Will be in contact with Commission Members via email and conference presentations.	0000-00-00	0000-00-00	ongoing

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
Encouraging Commission Members to present at regional and national NACADA on issues facing ESL/International Students. This would educate all NACADA membership and provide professional development for commission members.	All Commission Members	0000-00-00	0000-00-00	ongoing

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
Including Liaisons to key roles that interact with ESL and International Students on college campuses. Including: registrars/International Student offices/and ESL teachers.	Deniece Taylor - liason to AACAO - American Association of Collegiate Reigistrars and Admissions	0000-00-00	0000-00-00	Ongoing

3-B
Enhance NACADA's global visibility and credibility as the resource for concerns and needs involving academic advising. Identify and educate other professionals in higher education that NACADA has valuable information to help institutions enhance student development, student success, and institutional success through the dissemination of credible and supported data.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Encourage Commission Members to share information gathered and learned from attending NACADA conferences with their home campus.	Commission members	0000-00-00	0000-00-00	ongoing

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-A
Assess member needs and talents. Identify representatives of diverse groups and plan for ensuring their successful involvement in association activities.

Task (Activities Planned)	Person/committee assigned the task	Target Date	Date Completed	Assess progress or completion
Enourage Commission Members to attend and become active in NACADA for next national conference.	Through list serve	2020-05-10	0000-00-00	Ongoing

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

Issue/Item	Details
Name change	I would like to change the name from ESL to ELL. English Language Learners more accurately reflects the current language used on campus. Enlish may not be most of these students second language. It could be their 3rd or 4th.

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Section 4: List Volunteer Opportunities Available in your Unit.

Volunteer Opportunity	Details
conference liaison	prepare hot topic and commission fair poster
list serve liaison	keep updating list serve; facilitate list serve discussion

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Section 5: Summary of Annual Commission Meeting

At our annual meeting for the ESL & International Student Advising Commission held during National NACADA 2004, we had approximately 10 people in attendance. We discussed how diverse our group is in interest and needs. Some of us work primarily with Immigrant Students that are residents or resident aliens. Others work with International Students at Graduate Level or Undergraduate Level. Some of us work with undecided students; while others work with professional programs. Some of us work with in the registrar's office while others advise primarily. Given how diverse the work we do is it was difficult to come up with action plans as one size does not fit all. We did recognize needs that we all commonly have and as a Commission we could work on. We discussed the following issues that need to be worked on at our institutions in order to assist ESL/International Students: interpreting International Transcripts cultural adjustments for students language support balancing life and school financial resources legal issues sensitivity/awareness training for all staff who work with English language learners We identified many issues we need to work on and want as a Commission: Work on identifying solid links and contacts with NAFSA; AACRAO; TOESL. We want to encourage more commission sponsored presentations at NACADA that are in line with our stated issues. We want to make sure we maintain current on web sites for different links relating to the commission.