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Awards Program
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Outstanding
New Advisor Award Guidelines
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Academic
Advising-Primary Role —
Individuals whose primary role at the institution
is the direct delivery of advising services to students.
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Faculty
Academic Advising —
Individuals
whose primary responsibility is teaching and who spend
a portion of their time providing academic advising
services to students.
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Eligibility:
- Any
individual serving as an academic advisor or faculty academic
advisor for three (3) or fewer years,
and is employed by a regionally accredited post-secondary
institution may be nominated. NACADA membership is
not required.
- Current
members of the Board of Directors and Council are not
eligible for consideration for this award. After the member's
term of office is over, s/he may then be eligible for consideration.
- Previous
Outstanding New Advisor Award winners or Certificate of Merit
recipients are not eligible. Previous Outstanding
Advising Award winners or Certificate of Merit recipients
are not eligible.
- Only one nominee per category per institution
will be considered.
Criteria:
The Selection Committee will evaluate nominations on the
evidence of qualities and practices that distinguish the
nominee as an outstanding academic advisor, faculty advisor,
or advising administrator.
Such evidence may include:
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Strong
interpersonal skills
- Availability to advisees, faculty, or staff
- Frequency of contact with
advisees
- Appropriate referral activity
- Use and dissemination of
appropriate information sources
- Evidence of student success
rate, by advisor or department
- Caring, helpful attitude
toward advisees, faculty and staff
- Meeting advisees in informal
settings
- Participation in and support
of intrusive advising to build strong relationships
with advisees
- Monitoring of student progress
toward academic and career goals
- Mastery of institutional
regulations, policies, and procedures
- Ability to engage in, promote,
and support developmental advising
- Evidence of administering
an academic advising program that supportsNACADA's
Core Values
- Evidence that the advising
program reflects the standards of good practice in the
CAS Standards and
Guidelines for Academic Advising
- Participation in and support
of advisor development programs
- Perception by colleagues
of nominee's advising skills
- Institutional recognition
of nominee for outstanding advising
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Submission
Procedures:
Nominations must contain adequate factual or narrative material
that describes the extent to which an individual meets the
awards criteria. Include the following items and use objective
data to support the nomination.
- A completed Online Nomination
Form
- A summary of the nominee's
qualifications. In this key piece, the nominator
should summarize the extent to which the nominee meets the
award criteria, citing letters of support, data, or other
materials illustrative of exemplary performance as an academic
advisor or a faculty advisor.
- Nominee resume or
vita. Please limit
entries to material that pertains directly to academic advising,
presenting relevant information from the nominee's overall
resume/vita. Please
include a current job position description or
list of job responsibilities.
- Nominee's personal statement on advising
- Appendices which support
the summary (item 2), such as:
- representative materials developed
by the nominee
- letters of support from advisees,
colleagues, and administrators
- other pertinent information from
nominator
Appendices
should be limited to not
more than 20 pages
(20 sheets of paper printed front and back). The online system will allow you to submit more than one attachment for the appendices but the total number of pages if printed should be no more than 20.
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Nominations must include only original documentation prepared specifically for the NACADA Awards Program.
Materials intended for other award programs will not be
considered.
Online submissions for the 2012 Outstanding New Advisor Awards are due Monday, March 5th.
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