Salt Lake City is a lovely city. We will be just a few blocks away from shops, restaurants, and interesting places you will enjoy visiting those moments in between conference sessions. We are going to have a great conference there!

The Commission Fair, our Commission Meeting, and Commission sponsored sessions will provide a wonderful variety of appropriate sessions to enrich your understanding of adult learners and how to best assess and advise them. Our Commission dinner will be a great time to network. Conference Preview will give you all the details for each of these events of our Commission during the conference.

NON-TRAD STUDENT WEEK

The second annual Non-Traditional Student Week will be conducted November 4-8, 2002. For ideas on how to celebrate this event at your campus and some experiences of institutions from last year, check out the web page.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR COMMISSION
LIST SERVE

We intend to conduct business with the Commission members electronically in September, prior to the national conference. Therefore, it is VERY IMPORTANT that you subscribe to the list serve so that you will not miss out on this business and the other timely communications that we can send to you with this tool. Take a minute and subscribe now!

We promise NOT to overuse it or to allow frivolous use of this list serve. We will use it to encourage nominations for chairs, to request members to serve on committees, to let you know about upcoming newsworthy events, such as the Non-Traditional Student Week. You can use it also to seek advice and ideas from colleagues.

Carol Ann Baily,
Newsletter Editor

THANKS

We want to thank all the Commission members who worked on committees and various projects for the Adult Learners Commission this past year. Check out the full list.

CHECK OUT COMMISSION WEB SITE

Not only are you receiving this newsletter electronically, you can look up all kinds of information about the commission at any time on the web site.

Check out the Web Links that direct you to hundreds of sites for advising and student resources that would interest advisors to adult learners. If you are interested in becoming more involved in the Commission, look at the Volunteer Opportunities on the web site to see your options for service.

If you fail the find something there you want to know about, contact cabaily@mtsu.edu and I'll see if we can add it to the site.

Carol Ann Baily,
Commission Web Site Editor

Another school year has passed and as we try to beat the heat, catch up on projects long delayed and prepare for the fall, I would like to welcome any newcomers and commend our veterans in the commission for your contributions.

In the past year, we have done much good work thanks to our state of the art communications capabilities. Our commission website and list serve have provided wonderful opportunities to share what we know and ask questions of each other. Now that we have these capabilities and are becoming more familiar with using the website and list serve, I would like us to become more proactive in the upcoming year in using these tools to share information. Among the ideas I would like to implement include posting short summaries of conference events on the website and posing discussion questions about serving adult learners on the list serve for us to consider.

To this end, please let me know if you have any items of interest you would like to have posted on the website and if you haven't already joined the list serve, please do so now. You can do this by clicking on the link just to the left that says "subscribe to the list serve". If you would like to contribute a discussion question to our list serve, please let me know and I will contact you with a time to do that. Of course, any time you wish to utilize the list serve to communicate with the group, please do so.

It is also time to think about nominations for the commission chair position. I began this position at the conclusion of last year's national conference in Ottawa this past October. We will be voting this March for a person to take over the position beginning at the conclusion of the Dallas conference in 2003.

The position is a rewarding one and provides many interesting experiences. Among the responsibilities are preparing the annual budget and commission report, attending the annual board meetings, contributing to publications, reviewing proposals for conferences, facilitating commission meetings and coordinating commission activities.

If you are interested in recommending yourself or a colleague from the commission for this position, you need to submit a 2003 Leadership Position Recommendation Form by the deadline, October 15, 2002. You can get this form on the NACADA website. If you have any questions regarding the commission chair position, please contact me.

I hope to see you at this year's national conference in Salt Lake City. We have sponsored some fine presentations and will gather for our commission meeting and celebratory dinner. If you have volunteered to help out at the conference, I will be contacting soon. If you will be attending and you would like to lend a hand, there are two main activities for which I am seeking assistance.

The first is to attend our sponsored sessions and to write a short summary of them. In addition, if you should attend a session that you believe was particularly helpful for commission members but it was not sponsored by the commission, please write a short summary and send it to me. The second activity is to help us greet people at the commission fair. So, if you would like to participate in either of these activities or you have any other questions or comments about the commission, please contact me.

Thank you and hope to see or hear from you soon.
Kenn Skorupa, Commission Chair
Assistant Director of Adult Distance Advising School for New Learning
DePaul University
312.362.5794
kskorupa@depaul.edu