New to the Highlights! Do you know
of a recent article, in a non-advising publication, that features
academic advising? We will spotlight articles that were recently
published in national, regional or statewide non-advising publications
in the NACADA Highlights.
This month's features:
- Mary Stuart Hunter and Eric R. White.
(March/April 2004). "Could Fixing Academic Advising Fix Higher
Education?" in About Campus,
Volume 9, No. 1, pp. 20-25. Jossey-Bass.
- Kendra Hamilton. (April 8, 2004). "Creating
a Successful Student-Athlete: Discipline, focus and hard work
are just a few attributes, says advising expert Dr. Ruth Darling"
in Black Issues in Higher Education, Volume 21, No. 4,
pp. 30-31.
- Marilyn Gilroy. (May 17, 2004). "Learning
Communities = Higher GPAs + Improved Retention." in The
Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, Volume 14, No. 16,
pp. 25-27.
Article submissions may be made at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Forms/advisingspotlight.htm.
Submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Articles
that discuss advising or advising issues should be from non-advising
publications (periodicals such as journals, newspapers, or on-line
newsletters)
- Articles
must be published in a copyrighted state, regional (multi-state),
or national print-based or web publication
- Articles
must be published within the last 8 weeks
- Articles
must be readily accessible to individuals (college library must
be able to obtain the article through appropriate channels, e.g.,
interlibrary loan)
Submit the article
as a reference citation (APA style) giving the article title, name(s)
of the author(s), publication name, volume and issue (if applicable),
and where article can be found (Web link to the article or the publication).
NACADA
will not include submissions for commercial promotion.
There's still time to register for one
of the Academic Advising Summer Institutes! Attending one
of these Institutes will provide invaluable assistance in preparing
an ACTION PLAN to refine your existing advising program or to
develop a new strategy for advising on your campus. Join
us in either 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
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. This year's award recipients include the Pacesetter
Award and Service to NACADA Award winners, 18 Outstanding Advising
Award winners, 31 Outstanding Advising Certificates of Merit,
4 Outstanding New Advisor Award winners, 8 Outstanding New Advisor
Certificates of Merit, 4 Outstanding Program Award winners, 6
Outstanding Program Certificates of Merit, 3 Electronic Publication
Award winners, 5 Electronic Publication Certificates of Merit,
2 NACADA Scholarships, 4 Summer Institute Scholarships, 1 Student
Research Award, and 3 Service to Commission Awards. The Research
Grant awards will be announced in July.
Links to listings of these award recipients
can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/PastRecipients.htm.
The National Conference
on Academic Advising will be held Wednesday, October 6-Saturday,
October 9, 2004, at the Cincinnati Convention Center.
Visit the conference
web site for details on the areas below, plus other information.
The printed Registration Brochure will be mailed in early July.
Conference and Hotel
Registration
- If you are lucky enough to have some money left in this fiscal
year's budget, it's not too early to register for the conference.
Session Titles/Topical
Tracks
- Over 300 session titles plus their presenters and institutions
are listed according to advising tracks or topics. You can
easily view the sessions offered in your areas of interest.
Keynote Speakers
- Dr. Nancy L. Zimpher,
the first woman president of the University of Cincinnati, will
speak at the opening plenary Wednesday evening. Her research
in education will set the tone for an excellent conference.
- John Wagner,
humorist and professional speaker, will speak Friday morning
on Humor Helps Us Build the Bridges -how our sense
of humor can help us find more joy in our important work of
helping students succeed in higher education and life.
Overview of Daily
Conference Schedule
Airline and Auto
Rental Discounts
- American, Delta, and Northwest airlines as well as AVIS car
rental, are offering discounts to our attendees.
Looking for outside funding sources for
research on academic advising? Final
research grant applications are due by June 7, 2004, to
NACADA. For submission guidelines, visit our web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/Grants.htm.
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. Although recognitions received after June 7 may
not be in time to be printed in the awards booklet distributed
at the conference, these retirees will still receive an Emeritus
pin from NACADA.
The next course offered in the KSU/NACADA
Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising Program is The College
Student and the College Environment which 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.
Are
you researching an advising topic for your institution, thesis
or dissertation? Want to connect with others researching the
same topic? The NACADA Research Committee sponsors an informal
research registry to stimulate communication among those researching
advising topics. Use the Registry
form to be matched with others researching similar topics.
Email addresses will be provided to all collaborating researchers.
"The Importance of Values and Culture
in Ethical Decision Making" can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/ValuesEthics.htm.
While most advising decisions are routine, we can unexpectedly
face an ethical dilemma when an unusual situation occurs suddenly
and an immediate response is needed. Christine Chmielewski, Indiana
University South Bend advisor and Kansas State University graduate
certificate student, addresses what every advisor needs to know
before an ethical crisis occurs.
In your mailbox soon, 21st Century
Advising: Facets of Advising Special Populations, NACADA
Journal issue 23(1&2). This special issue, first of
the 'Facets of Advising' issues http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/journalfacets.htm
features the jewel blue cover that will grace each upcoming 'Facets'
issue. A sampling of articles awaiting you includes: "Advising
the Millennial Generation," "A Research-Based Approach
to Working with Undecided Students," and "Advising Student
Athletes". Watch for these articles and more coming to your
mailbox soon.
Making plans for summer? Take along a
book from the NACADA Journal Book Review list. Recent
acquisitions include:
- Supercharge Your Study Skills:
From F to Phi Beta Kappa
- Race-ing Moral Formation: African
American perspectives on care and justice
- Walking the Road: Race, Diversity
and Social Justice in Teacher Education
- Contradictions in Women's Education:
Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex
College
- Building Faculty Learning Communities
Find these books and many more at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/brbooklist.htm.
Note: Members have three months
from the receipt of a 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.
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.
NACADA is pleased to announce that Ruby
Mason has agreed to serve as the new Chair for the Health Professions
Advising Interest Group. Ruby is replacing Nancy Walburn who is
stepping down from this leadership role in preparation for serving
her 3-year term on the NACADA Board of Directors beginning this
fall. NACADA truly appreciates all the work that Nancy has done
over the past few years in representing this interest group.
Ruby Mason is currently a Senior Advising Consultant at Stanford
University and can be reached at earsm@stanford.edu.
Ruby's contact information is also available at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/InterestGroups/C20/index.htm
on the interest group's web site.
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 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 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.
Members are invited to join any of the open list serves available
on the NACADA web site at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/list serve/index.htm.
NACADA features list serves for commissions and interest
groups; regions; states and provinces; on-line advising; and allied
members. NACADA does not provide automatic enrollment to its list serves. To
join a NACADA list serve, click on any links of interest at the
address above and follow the directions for subscribing to and
unsubscribing from the list serves. NACADA list serves cannot
be used for commercial purposes of any type. list serve members
who send messages for commercial purposes will be immediately
removed and banned from all list serves.
Join us on the beach! We are excited
to announce our return to the TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel in
St. Pete Beach next winter for these two exciting working institutes.
After working and expanding your knowledge with us during the
day, relax and walk along some of the whitest beaches in the U.S.
The 2004 successful seminar on the Assessment of Academic Advising
has been expanded into an Institute upon feedback from the participants.
2005
Administrators' Institute
TradeWinds
Island Grand Hotel
January
30 - February 1, 2004 |
2005
Assessment of Academic Advising Institute
TradeWinds
Island Grand Hotel
February
2-4, 2005 |
Information will begin
to be posted to our web site next month. Be sure to check
back then.
Thanks to all the Conference Chairs and
their committees, the Region Chairs and all those who participated
for helping to bring quality professional development opportunities
on a local level! Kudos to Region Conference Chairs Gail
Stepina & Beth Higgins (1); Bill Johnson & Wayne Jackson
(2); Stan Coberly & Maria Watson (3); Charlie Gates &
Sue Hodge (4); Kristie Bloom (5); Tonia Baxter (6); Patti Griffin
& Jill Anderson-Heib (7); Jason Boyd (8); Gwen Fleming &
Beth Webb (9); and Debra Bryant (10) for all their hard work and
leadership for these 2004 meetings. Over 2000 NACADA members
participated! Plans are being made for the 2005 season and
information will be at the regional web sites soon!
The
Highlights are a monthly summary of NACADA news and events designed
to inform members via one consolidated e-mail.
