• NACADA Deadlines
  • Research Grant Proposals Due - May 16, 2005
  • Early Registration for St. Paul, MN, Summer Institute Due - May 17, 2005
  • Retiree Recognition Forms Due - June 6, 2005
    
    
• NACADA Events
  • Register Now for the St. Paul, MN, Summer Institute - Limited Enrollment...Register Today to Receive Early Registration Rate!
  • 2005 National Conference in Las Vegas - Information is On-Line!
  • Proposed 2006 Regional Conference Chairs & Sites
    
    
• NACADA Resources & Publications
  • NACADA Statement of Core Values of Academic Advising - Revised
  • NACADA Clearinghouse Features Two New Articles!
  • NACADA Journal Update
  • Book Reviews - Summertime Reading Available!
  • Academic Advising News Coming Soon
  • Research Grants Available
  • Faculty Advising Training Now Available on DVD
  • Content Under Review for Foundations of Advising CD Series
  • NACADA Bestsellers!
    
    
• Other
  • First Recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising Announced!
  • NACADA Re-approved for NBCC Accreditation
  • We Need Your Help!
  • Campus Advising Awards
  • 2005 Retiree Recognition

The Most Comprehensive Consideration of Academic Advising Available! Academic Advising Summer Institute June 12-17, 2005 St. Paul, Minnesota Take Action! - Early Registration Due May 17, 2005! Register Now

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

With beautiful natural settings along the Mississippi River, Saint Paul embodies a large ethnically diverse population with restaurants, cultural entertainment and shopping venues for everyone. Visit the St. Paul web site at http://www.stpaulcvb.org/index.cfm (click on “Visitors” and “Calendar of Events”) to see what is happening in this vibrant city during the week of the Institute! Just a quick sample includes theatre presentations (Beauty and the Beast, for example), a Back to the Fifty’s car show, the Summer Flower Show, and riverboat excursions, in addition to a wide variety of restaurants and the world’s best shopping! Do we need to remind you the Mall of America is close by? You may want to arrive early or stay late to enjoy the site.

The meeting will be held at the Radisson Riverfront Hotel on the banks of the Mississippi. It offers breathtaking views of the Mississippi River and a recently completed $9.2 million renovation of the Carousel Restaurant offers award winning cuisine with a spectacular view of the city. Oh, and kids stay free! Arrangements have been made for our group to cruise the river and the price is included in your Summer Institute registration fee. If you have family or friends that wish to join us, a limited number of tickets will be available to purchase. Check out the Summer Institute page on the NACADA web site.

If your summer schedule does not allow you to attend the Academic Advising Summer Institute in St. Paul, you will want to join us in Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 31-August 5.  Either place is a great place to TAKE ACTION! 

For information regarding the Institutes, please click here!

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

Visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2005/index.htm. You'll find information on conference registration, airline discounts, and hotel reservations. If you'd like to economize but don't have a roommate, click on Sharing Hotel Accommodations.

From over 700 proposals, over 400 individual sessions will be presented in several formats: pre-conference workshops, concurrent sessions, and poster presentations plus interest group, commission, committee and region meetings. They are sorted into 40 subject tracks and target populations.

All session titles, sorted by track, will be listed on the web site by June 1. A few of the titles on current advising topics:

• Bottoms-up: Techniques in Creating an On-going, Campus-wide Academic Advisor Training Program
• Students in Crisis: Trials, Tribulations, Techniques, Tips and Referrals
• Understanding & Applying Racial Identity Development Theory: A Critical Skill for Advising Students of Color
• Extreme Makeover: Advising Edition
• Making the Most of the Information Age: Developing your Advising Web Site
• What Happens in Vegas, Doesn't Stay in Vegas: Take-home Secrets to Overhauling Your Advising System
• "Where Do I Begin?" Building an Academic Advising Budget
  
  

Regional Conferences had a GREAT 2005 conference season! Ten Regional Conferences were held throughout the U.S. and Canada in March and April of this year. Below is a proposed list of locations and chairs for the 2006 Conferences.  Dates will be announced when they are confirmed. 

The NACADA Board of Directors has approved the work of the Task Force charged with updating the NACADA Core Values of Academic Advising. Find the updated Core Values at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Core-Values.htm. Members will note that the Statement of Core Values consists of three parts: Introduction, Declaration, and Exposition. While each part stands alone, the document’s richness and fullness of meaning lies in its totality. The Statement of Core Values provides a framework to guide professional practice and reminds advisors of their responsibilities to students, colleagues, institutions, society, and themselves.

The Board thanks the Task Force for their hard work and encourages each NACADA member to use the Core Values for personal development and to share the Statement on campus (workshops, newsletters, etc.).

In this crazy time of the year, do you find that your dreams turn to nightmares about enrollment issues?! This month the Clearinghouse turns those nightmares into sweet dreams with two features:

• "Improving the Odds for Freshman Success -- an overview of the issues surrounding advising incoming students -- by Jessica Bigger, Kansas State University graduate student and NACADA graduate assistant who provides advice for upcoming freshmen enrollments at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/First-Year.htm.
  
  
• Ethical Decision Making in Academic Advising provides an easy-to-use structure for making tough ethical decisions. This overview, by Kate Fisher, Kansas State University graduate student in Adult & Continuing Education, can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Ethical-Decisions.htm.
  
  

NACADA Journal issue 25(1) -- Spring 2005 - is in final production. We anticipate that it will be mailed to all members by the end of May. Can't wait to see what's inside? Check out the issue's Table of Contents on the Journal Web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/Volume-TwentyFive-Issues-1-2.htm. While there check out the full-text of the book reviews included in the issue at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/Volume-TwentyFive-Issues-1-2.htm#bkrev. Beginning with the Spring 2005 issue, all book reviews will be published on the Journal Web site. Get a jump on your reading - check out the NACADA Journal book reviews today!

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

• Alcohol Problems in the United States: Twenty Years of Treatment Perspective
• Arenas of Entrepreneurship: Where Nonprofit and For-Profit Institutions Compete
• Contemporary Financial Issues in Student Affairs (New Directions for Student Services #103)
• Planning and Achieving Successful Student Affairs Facilities Projects
• Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property
• Your College Experience: Strategies for Success (Annotated Instructor's Edition with CD-ROM and InfoTrac), 6th Edition

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 2004-2005 (September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2005) member year. 

The June newsletter is coming together - watch your e-mail for the electronic version of Academic Advising News in mid-May.  Two of our featured articles will address The Changing Face of College Campuses and Challenges for Two-Year College Advisors.

Take advantage of the funding opportunities NACADA offers through research grants. Each year the Research committee grants stipends up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) to support a single-year proposal from practicing professionals (administrators and faculty) and graduate students seeking support for dissertation research. Grant proposals are due May 16, 2005. Find information and applications at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/Research_Related/Grant-Guidelines.htm.

NACADA's Faculty Advising Training video has now been converted to a DVD format. If you would like to order this DVD and accompanying handbook, please print and complete the order form at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/puborderform.pdf. Fax your order to the NACADA Executive Office at 785/532-7732.

Proposed material for the distance learning Foundations of Advising CD Series is now being evaluated by the Content Review Board. Possible subjects for the series include the concept of advising, advising models, student development theory, multicultural awareness, legal issues, and more.

Two of NACADA's most recent publications have become bestsellers! Since January 1, when Advising Transfer Students: Issues and Strategies (http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Monographs/index.htm#transfer) became available, over 2/3 of the first printing has been sold. Another bestseller is A Family Guide to Academic Advising. Over 17,000 copies of this publication have been sold since June, 2003. Information on the Family Guide is available at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Publications/familyGuide.htm.

NACADA is pleased to announce that twenty-seven graduate students from 18 states nationwide will be the first recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising in May, 2005. The Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising, developed by Kansas State University and the National Academic Advising Association, is an intensive graduate program offered on-line to teaching faculty, professional advisors, administrators, graduate students, and others interested in the advising field. For more information visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/GraduateCertificate/index.htm.

NACADA will recognize these first recipients of the Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising at the National Conference in Las Vegas:

The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) has again approved NACADA as a continuing education provider. Those participating in NACADA's professional development events may receive continuing education credits by completing the NBCC forms available at each event.

NACADA needs visuals for display and other purposes.  If you have snapshots, digitized photos, videos or other graphic representations of advisors in action who have given permission for public use (i.e. advisor-advisee interaction; advisors giving presentations, etc.) that you would be willing to share with us, please contact Leigh Cunningham at Leigh@ksu.edu.

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 at the link below. 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.

ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM: www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/CampusAdvisingAwardForm.htm.

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.

Retirees will again be recognized by NACADA at the fall national conference in Las Vegas. Retiree recognition forms are available at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/Retiree.htm. If you know a colleague who retired during the past academic year or has plans to retire during the upcoming academic year, please complete the recognition form at the above Web site and submit it by June 6, 2005, to the NACADA Executive Office. 

The Highlights is a monthly summary of NACADA news and events designed to inform members via one consolidated e-mail.