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Picture
yourself writing your "what I did this summer" report! This could
actually be an EXCITING document, demonstrating your productive
use of a week spent preparing an ACTION PLAN to refine your existing
advising program or to develop a new strategy for advising on your
campus. Then, making your ACTION PLAN a reality will give you something
to brag about for years to come! Join us at one of the NACADA Academic
Advising Summer Institutes this summer, either in Portsmouth, VA,
June 6-11, OR in Milwaukee, WI, August 1-6. Register
now to reserve space for you or your team! Enrollment is limited,
so let us know immediately if you plan to attend -- no need to wait
for your business office to process your registration. Faxing
a copy to us as you start it through your campus system will reserve
a spot for you! http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/SummerInst/index.htm
Over
100 students are presently enrolled in the KSU/NACADA Graduate Certificate
in Academic Advising. The next course, The College Student
and the College Environment, will begin on June 7, 2004, and
end July 30, 2004. The last day to register for the course
is June 21, 2004. Apply now and register by visiting http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GraduateCertificate/index.htm.
Courses for the fall semester are: Trends in Career Development
and Foundations in Academic Advising.
Featured
this month in the Clearinghouse:
Advising students toward selective majors. How
can you help those who don't "make the cut"?
Advising can be a balance of emotions. There is joy when an
advisee "makes it" into a selective major. But for
every student who "makes it", there are many for whom
things just didn't work. What can an advisor say and do to
help these students? Maura Reynolds, Hope College faculty
advisor, provides helpful suggestions for advising these students
in "Now What?" http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/SelectiveMajors.htm
Dr.
Nancy Zimpher, President of the University of Cincinnati, will keynote
the opening plenary session of the NACADA National Conference in
Cincinnati, OH, October 6-9. John Wagner will speak at the
second plenary on using the positive power of humor to thrive in
times of change. For registration, hotel, and other information,
visit: http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/index.htm
.
Over
350 individual sessions will be presented in Cincinnati, covering
40 subject tracks and target populations. By June 1 all session
titles, sorted by track, will be on the website. A few of
the titles on current advising topics:
- You're
How Old? Challenges and Strategies for Young Advisors, Administrators,
and Educators
- Is Doing More with Less Blowing
you Away?
- Legal Issues in Academic Advising
- An Award-Winning, Web-Based Assessment
and Advising Tool
- Assessment Aftermath: Now
What?
- Building Bridges to Departments:
Professional and Faculty Advisors Working Together
- Bridging Gaps: Connecting
Campus Groups through an Integrated Training Program
- Blooming Where You're Planted:
Managing Your Job and Your Values
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling for
Academic Advisors
- I Know What You Did Last Semester:
The Sequel
Looking
for outside funding sources for research on academic advising?
For submission guidelines, visit our web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/Grants.htm.
Final research grant applications are
due by June
7, 2004 to NACADA. Please share this
funding source with academic researchers on your campus!
Retiree
recognition forms are available at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/Retiree.htm.
If you know of a colleague who retired during the past academic
year or has plans to retire during the upcoming academic year, and
you wish to recognize him/her at the fall national conference, please
complete the form at the above web site and submit it to the NACADA
Executive Office by June
7, 2004.
Make
plans now for the Academic
Advising Administrators' Institute (January 30-February
1, 2005) and for the Assessment
of Academic Advising Institute (February 2-4, 2005),
both to be held in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
The sale on
selected NACADA monographs has been extended to July 1, 2004.
Take advantage of the 40% discount on these monographs by completing
the sale form at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/ClrSaleForm.pdf
and faxing it to the NACADA executive office at 785/532-7732.
Region
7 will wrap up the 2004 Regional Conference season and invites you
to join them on the "Road
Less Traveled", May 27-29, in Overland Park, KS. We had great
conferences in each region and wish to thank all the Conference
Chairs and Committees as well as the Regional Chairs and Steering
Committee members for the efforts they extended toward providing
quality professional development experiences for almost 2000 colleagues.
The
June newsletter is on the way -- watch your e-mail for the electronic
version of Academic Advising News around May 15. This
issue features articles written by NACADA members on Faculty
Advising in a Learner-Centered Environment, Assisting Students
with Disabilities, Strategies for Helping Education Majors,
reports by NACADA leaders on Association matters, and resources
for your professional development.
Making
plans for summer? Take along a book from the NACADA Journal
Book Review list. Some titles new to the list
include:
- Using Web and Paper Questionnaires for Data-Based Decision Making
- Journey to the Ph.D.: How to navigate the process as African
Americans
- Effective Group Facilitation in Education: How to energize
meetings and manage difficult groups
- Spirituality 101: The Indispensable Guide to Keeping Finding
-- Your Spiritual Life on Campus
- Supercharge Your Study Skills: From F to Phi Beta Kappa
- The Majority in the Minority: Expanding the Representation of
Latina/o Faculty, Administrators and Students in Higher Education
Find
these and many more at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/brbooklist.htm
Note:
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 academic
year; books requested now are within the 2003-2004 academic
year.
Please
join us in congratulating Lizette
Bartholdi as the newly elected Chair for
the ESL and International Student Advising Commission! Lizette
was just elected to this position in a special election following
the recent resignation of Patrick Slowinski who accepted a position
with the US Government in Virginia.
Lizette
is currently an Academic Advisor in the General College at the University
of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis, and she can be reached
at barth028@umn.edu.
Lizette will serve a one-year term from 2004-2005, beginning at
the conclusion of the national conference in Cincinnati this fall.
Megumi Yamasaki is currently
serving as interim Chair of this commission until then.
Maura
Reynolds was
recently appointed by incoming President Eric White as the appointed
Commission and Interest Group (CIG) Division Representative to succeed
Skip Crownhart this fall. Maura will serve a two-year term
from 2004-2006, beginning at the conclusion of the national conference
in Cincinnati this fall. Maura is the Director of Academic Advising
at Hope College in Holland, MI, and currently serves as Chair of
the Small Colleges and Universities Commission. She can be
reached at mreynolds@hope.edu.
A
chart comparing the similarities and differences between commissions
and interest groups has been created and can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/CandIGDivision/CIGDComparisonChart.htm
on the NACADA Commission and Interest Group Division (CIGD) web
site. Hopefully, this chart will clarify some of the questions
members may have concerning the similarities and differences between
these constituencies. Although members are limited to selecting
only two Commissions and two Interest Groups, the limitations only
apply to voting and holding office. Members may be involved
in other ways on as many Commissions and Interest Groups as they
desire.
NACADA
would like to recognize individuals who received campus awards in
2004 for outstanding academic advising or advising administration.
If your institution has given such an award this year, please
e-mail the following information to Julia Wolf at the NACADA Executive
Office at jqwolf@ksu.edu:
exact name of the
award plus the award recipient's name, position title, department/unit,
institution, complete mailing address and e-mail address.
Please note that these advising award recipients do not need to
be current NACADA members.
Thanks
to those of you who have already sent notification to NACADA of
your campus awards given this year. The recipients of these
campus advising awards have been listed at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/CampusAwards.htm
on the NACADA web site. There is a link on our home page to
this site as well as on the Awards web site on the "Cumulative
Recipient Lists" page.
Please
note that the list serves managed by NACADA on the Kansas State University
server can no longer deliver attachments. This applies only to those
association list serves ending with "ksu.edu". This
step was implemented as a preventive measure to avoid web viruses
from being transmitted or received through these list serves.
Therefore, anyone who is currently subscribed to a list serve managed
by NACADA will be unable to send an e-mail attachment to that list serve
as a whole.
Your
options are to:
- Cut and paste the information into
the actual e-mail
- Post the information to a web page
on your institution's server and provide a direct link to that
site in your e-mail.
A
list of NACADA-managed list serves (end with "ksu.edu")
can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/list serve/index.htm.
Please contact NACADA at nacada@ksu.edu
if you have any questions.
Also,
remember that NACADA list serves cannot be used for commercial purposes.
The
Highlights are a monthly summary of NACADA news and events designed
to inform members via one consolidated e-mail.
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