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Building
Bridges: Advisors as Architects for the Future
28th
Annual Conference on Academic Advising
October
6-9, 2004
Cincinnati
Convention Center
HELP
NACADA CELEBRATE ITS 25th ANNIVERSARY! |
Check the Registration
Brochure you received recently in the mail (also available online
at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/regBrochure.htm)
for an overview of official events, optional tours, and airline
and car rental discounts.
Are you looking
for a roommate to defray hotel costs? You can sign up or look
for others at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/Roommate.htm.
Individuals contact each other directly; NACADA simply maintains
the list.
Planning to participate in the sixth annual
NACADA Choir at the conference? Jane Alexander is coordinating
it, but she would like a volunteer to direct the choir. Please
contact her at jalexander@fnr.purdue.edu.
Four wonderful hotels (all within 1½ blocks
of the convention center) are holding rooms for us. After
September 15, rooms and rates will be based on availability, so
register online soon at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2004/hotel.htm.
A good way
to get involved and meet new people is to volunteer for a couple
of hours at the conference. Sign up by contacting Nicole Grant,
University of Cincinnati: nm.grant@uc.edu
or Jo Pionke, Kent State University: jpionke@kent.edu.
Conference presentations cover over forty
advising tracks. A few titles:
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Elephants in the Living Room: Communication Skills that
Work
•
Service, Community, Diversity: Win-Win for Students
•
A Career Planning Course Elective: Strategy for Advising
the Undeclared Student
•
Legal Self-Defense for the Academic Advisor
•
Building Outcomes for Your Advising Assessment: Developing
and Measuring Outcomes Now to Enhance Advising in the Future
Were you advising students in 1979?
Are you one of the original NACADA members?
The national conference in Cincinnati will
celebrate NACADA's 25 years. If you are one of NACADA's charter
members and plan to attend this fall's national conference, please
email Marsha Miller at miller@ksu.edu.
This month the Clearinghouse,
in recognition of the association's 25th anniversary, features resources
from the archives to assist advisors new to the field. If
you or a colleague are new to advising, these resources should help
ease the transition:
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"The
Advising Appointment" http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Advising-Appointment.htm
was first published in the September 1990 edition of the Academic
Advising News
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"How to Thrive, Not Just Survive, as a New Advisor"
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/newadvisor.htm
was featured in the December 2002 newsletter
- Annotated bibliography of resources
to help new advisors http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/newadvisor.htm#readmore.
NACADA has reached a
record membership with nearly 8,000
members internationally!!
Information
is now available on the 2005 NACADA Leadership elections
at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Election/index.htm,
including a list of positions to be elected, eligibility criteria,
and an online nomination form. Election information and printed
nomination forms will also be available at the NACADA booth in the
Exhibit area at the National Conference in Cincinnati 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
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2004.
Please welcome Skip Crownhart
and Les Hemphill as the
newest members of the NACADA leadership.
Skip
Crownhart, from Metropolitan
State College-Denver, is the new Chair
for the NACADA Diversity Committee. Skip will serve
as Diversity Committee Chair until October 2005. She will
also continue serving as the appointed Division Representative for
the Commission and Interest Group Division until her term ends in
October. Contact information for Skip can be found on the
Diversity Committee web page at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/AdministrativeDivision/diversity.htm.
Les Hemphill,
from Cloud County Community College (KS), is the new Chair
for the Advising Students with Disabilities Commission.
Les was elected to this leadership position in February and is officially
assuming the chairship a few months early for his term which runs
to October 2006. Contact information for Les is available
on the commission web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Commissions/C16/leadership.htm.
"How Can I Become Involved as a NACADA
Consultant?" will be presented at the National Conference,
October 7, 3:15-4:15 p.m., by Charlie Nutt, NACADA's Associate Director.
Information will be presented on the expectations and requirements
for NACADA consultants, steps in applying to be a consultant, and
the process institutions use in requesting and selecting consultants
via the Executive Office.
NACADA will host
three special professional development opportunities at the beach
in January and February!! First, a special seminar on Effectively
Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising will be held January
27-28; the 3rd Annual Academic
Advising Administrators' Institute will be held January 30
- February 1; and last, the Assessment
of Academic Advising Institute will be held February 2-4.
All three of these events will be held at the Tradewinds Resort
in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Watch the web and your mail for
more information!
NACADA has three
new and/or upcoming monographs. First, the newly published monograph
The Status of Academic Advising: Findings from the ACT
Sixth National Survey is available for ordering on the NACADA
web site and will be available at the national conference in Cincinnati.
Two new monographs will be published this fall: Giving
Advice to Students: A Road Map for College Professionals
and Advising Transfer Students: Issues and Strategies.
Watch for them at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Monographs/index.htm.
Beginning with
the 2005 Journal year, Book Reviews will be published
on the Journal's Web site upon acceptance and then referenced
in the following Journal issue. Upon acceptance of
a completed and edited review, reviewers will receive the reference
citation, including the issue in which their review will be referenced,
and the URL where their book review will be posted. This change
will allow members easy access to reviews in a timely manner instead
of waiting several months for publication. Reviews can be
printed easily from the website.
The editorial/review
process for these future reviews will be the same as the current
process. In every sense, these reviews will be NACADA Journal
publications. Journal issue 25(1) will be
the 'change over' issue with the text of all reviews printed in
the Journal issue and posted to the Web site in early
2005. Journal issue 25(2) will be published in the
new format with reviews published in their entirety only on the
Journal's Web site.
Want to know more about the review
opportunities? Find additional information and publications
available for review at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/broverview.htm.
Congratulations to the 2004 award recipients
in the NACADA National Awards Program. All award recipients
will be formally honored during the NACADA National Conference in
Cincinnati this fall. Links to listings of these award recipients
can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/PastRecipients.htm.
The Research Grant award decisions will be announced in late
July and results will be posted at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/GrantWinners.htm.
Last
call for campus advising awards presented 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. The recipients of
these campus advising awards, for whom we have been notified, are
listed on the NACADA web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/CampusAwards.htm.
Feature article for August:
Benton, Thomas
H. (July 23, 2004). "An Adviser Without Advice"
in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume L, No. 46,
pp. C2-C3.
Regional Conference Committees are gearing
up for the 2005 Spring Conference season. Call for presentations
will be on-line in late September. Plan to present and share your
expertise with your colleagues nearby. It is a great opportunity
for your continued professional development! Contact your Regional
Conference Chair if you would like to volunteer to help make your
regional conference a success! Visit the web at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/Conferences/Regional/upcoming.htm.
The
Highlights are a monthly summary of NACADA news and events designed
to inform members via one consolidated e-mail.
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