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Academic Advising Summer Institute
July 31-Aug 5, 2005
Colorado Springs, CO

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Who should attend?  The Institute is designed for individuals or teams who have responsibility for academic advising, including academic advising campus task force members, advising program directors, advisors, campus administrators, teams or individuals desiring to refine or redesign campus advising services.

The Institute utilizes an effective integration of expert group presentations with small group discussions, workshops and topical sessions led by skilled practitioners and organized by institutional type.  Through these activities, you will develop a network of supportive colleagues throughout the nation and Canada. 

A very valuable part of the Academic Advising Summer Institutes is the opportunity to prepare an ACTION PLAN for solving an advising challenge on your campus. The scope of the action plan is left up to you. The scope may be as narrow as devising a new form or as broad as proposing a new model for delivery of advising on your campus or recommending the use of new technology. You will receive assistance with this project by attending relevant sessions, group discussions, and group and individual consultations with institute facilitators who have expertise in the area you have chosen. You may come with an issue in mind or discover one through the information you hear from the experienced faculty.  In addition to the excellent general sessions and a wide variety of workshops and topical sessions, your own ACTION PLAN will be refined and prepared in your daily group discussion sessions.

Here are just a few of the issues addressed in the individual or team ACTION PLANS at the 2004 Summer Institutes:

• Action plan - Integrating career life planning with academic advising within the College of Human Services
• Action plan - Write a grant to fund additional support staff to assist the faculty with academic advising
• Action plan - Develop a peer mentor/advisor program to support retention efforts
• Reorganization plan - From centralized system to faculty advising and advising center for undecided, conditional, and at-risk students
• Action plan - Using a first-time pre-advising survey to promote more developmental advising
• Action plan - An informational Advising Fact Sheet to be sent when a student is accepted
• Action plan - Implement developmental advising in the School of Nursing 
• Action plan - Using coaching for more effective advising

NATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION and REGISTRATION now available!

Hitting the Jackpot: Making Academic Success a Sure Bet!
Wednesday, October 5 – Saturday, October 8, 2005
Bally's Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada

The printed Registration Brochure will be mailed in early July. 

Visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2005/index.htm  for details on the areas below, plus other information.  

• Session Titles/Topical Tracks: Over 300 session titles (including presenters and institutions) are listed according to advising tracks or topics. You can easily view the sessions offered in your areas of interest.
• Conference Daily Schedule
• Optional Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops: View descriptions and scheduled times. Extra fees apply.  
• Hotel and Conference registration forms
• Discounts on airfare and AVIS: Airfare discounts of 5-15% off the lowest applicable published fare, depending on how early you book.

• First-time students:
• Underprepared students: If, by the end of an enrollment day, you think that more new students are underprepared for the rigors of college academics, you are not alone. In "Advising Academically Underprepared Students," Marsha Miller, NACADA Assistant Director for Resources & Services, and Coleen Murray, Academic Transfer Advisor, Central Community College - Hastings Campus, suggest strategies that will help you guide these students to success (see http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Academically-underprepared.htm#over).
• Working with Parents: The Clearinghouse provides quick access to a variety of resources that can help you work with parents; see http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Parents.htm.
• First-generation students: Resources for advising first-generation students can be found in the Clearinghouse at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/1st_Generation.htm.
• Transfer students:
• Course information: When you are working with a transfer student, do you ever wonder what was included in the course taken at another institution? The Clearinghouse links to UT Austin's Web Central http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/ that provides links to regionally-accredited institutions of higher learning throughout the United States. Here you will find on-line catalogs with course descriptions that can help answer your questions.

The spring 2005 issue of the Journal has been mailed to all current members. Member copies for those joining or renewing April 19 - May 31 were mailed on June 1.

Looking for books to add to your professional library? Check out the Journal's Book Review section.  Book Reviews, in their entirety, are now on the Journal's webpage at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/Volume-TwentyFive-Issues-1-2.htm#bkrev.   Here you will find reviews from the Spring 2005 issue as well as the full text of book reviews that will be cited in the upcoming Fall 2005 Journal issue.

Making plans for summer? Take along a book from the Journal Book Review list. Some titles new to the list include:

• Journal of Dual Diagnosis: research and practice in substance abuse comorbidity
• The Secrets of Facilitation: The S.M.A.R.T. Guide to Getting Results with Groups

Find these books and more at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/brbooklist.htm. Members have three months from the receipt of the book to read and write the review. The book becomes the property of the reviewer upon acceptance of the review for publication. NACADA members may review and publish one book review per member year; books requested now are within the 2005-2006 (September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2006) member year. 

NACADA members receive the Journal as a membership benefit.   Are there others at your institution who could benefit from the Journal?  Perhaps your college library?   NACADA would like to send a complementary copy of the Spring 2005 issue to your campus acquisitions librarian. Please assist us in this endeavor by submitting your librarian/library name and address information at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/forms/journalrequest.htm.  This is a great opportunity to introduce the NACADA Journal as a resource for academic advising research, theory, and proven advising practices to your library.

Emails were sent out on May 18th announcing the arrival of the June 2005 edition of our quarterly electronic publication, formerly known as Academic Advising News and now renamed Academic Advising Today. 

In response to member requests for increased publishing opportunities, it has been determined that this monthly Highlights should take on more of the "newsletter" character, allowing us to feature a larger number of authors and more in-depth pieces in Academic Advising Today.  Ideas for possible new features are being discussed, so stay tuned...

To view the new publishing guidelines and deadlines, please see www.nacada.ksu.edu/Newsletter/guidelines.htm.  

For the complete publication, visit the following links on our web site:
For HTML format, click on the link http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Newsletter/NW28_2.htm.

For PDF format, click on the link http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Newsletter/NW28_2.pdf.

  Information is now available on the 2006 NACADA Leadership elections at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Election/index.htm, including a list of positions to be elected, eligibility criteria, and an online nomination recommendation form. Election information and printed nomination forms will also be available in the NACADA booth in the Exhibits area at the National Conference in Las Vegas and in the back of the conference program. Nomination forms can be submitted either online, at the conference, or by fax or mail. All nominations will be due to the Executive Office by Monday, October 31, 2005.

Congratulations to the first recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising!  Those who recently completed Certificate coursework in May are listed at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GraduateCertificate/graduates.htm. NACADA will recognize these recipients at the 2005 National Conference in Las Vegas.

Anyone interested in enrolling in coursework for the Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising may visit the website at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GraduateCertificate/index.htm for application information. Courses offered for the fall semester are Multicultural Counseling and Advising and Trends in Career Development.

Congratulations to the 2005 award recipients in the NACADA National Awards Program. These award recipients will be formally honored during the NACADA National Conference in Las Vegas this fall. This year's award recipients include the Pacesetter Award, Virginia Gordon Award and Service to NACADA Award winners; 20 Outstanding Advising Award winners, 26 Outstanding Advising Certificates of Merit, 5 Outstanding New Advisor Award winners, 10 Outstanding New Advisor Certificates of Merit, 2 Outstanding Program Award winners, 6 Outstanding Program Certificates of Merit, 5 Advising Technology Innovation Award winners, 2 Advising Technology Innovation Certificates of Merit, 2 Summer Institute Scholarships, and 2 Student Research Awards. No NACADA Scholarship applications were received this year.

In addition to these national awards, six commissions will be presenting Service to Commission Awards to deserving members at the national conference this fall. This spring four regions recognized members with special regional service and advising awards at their respective regional conferences.

Links to listings of all award recipients can be found at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/PastRecipients.htm.

NACADA would like to recognize individuals who receive campus awards in 2005 for outstanding academic advising (faculty or full-time) or advising administration. If you would like to notify NACADA of a colleague who recently received a campus advising award, please provide us with this information by completing the short online submission form on our web site at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/CampusAdvisingAwardForm.htm. Or, you can e-mail us at nacada@ksu.edu with the following information: exact name of the award; the award recipient's name, position title, department/unit, institution, complete mailing address, city/state/postal code, and e-mail address; and, your name and e-mail address. NOTE: These campus advising award recipients do not need to be current NACADA members.

NACADA applauds these advising professionals on their achievements and appreciates their dedication and service to students. Congratulatory e-mails will be sent from NACADA and lists of the campus advising award recipients are posted on our web site by award year at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/CampusAwards.htm. There is also a link to this web site on both the NACADA home page and the Awards home page.