Eligibility:

1. Any individual serving as an academic advisor, faculty academic advisor, or advising administrator and employed by a regionally accredited post-secondary institution may be nominated.  NACADA membership is not required.
2. Current members of the Board of Directors and Council are not eligible for consideration for these advising awards. After the member's term of office is over, s/he may then be eligible for consideration.
3. Previous Outstanding Advising Award winners are not eligible. Previous Certificates of Merit recipients are eligible only if a minimum of 5 years has elapsed since the certificate was awarded and the nomination contains substantial new information.
4. Previous Outstanding New Advisor Award winners or Certificate of Merit recipients may be considered for Outstanding Advising Awards or Certificates of Merit if a minimum of five years has passed since receiving the original award.
5. Nominees for the Outstanding Advising Administrator Awards must have served as an advising administrator for a minimum of three years.
6. Only one nominee per category from each 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: 

• 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 supports NACADA'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 or advising administration skills
• Institutional recognition of nominee for outstanding advising or advising administration

1. A completed Nomination Form signed by the nominee and the chief administrative officer responsible for the nominee's academic advising or administrative position.  Submissions lacking appropriate signatures will not be evaluated.
2. 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, faculty advisor, or an advising administrator.
3. 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.
4. A personal statement on advising or advising administration by the nominee
5. Appendices which support the summary (item 2), such as:
1. representative materials developed by the nominee.
2. letters of support from advisees, colleagues, and administrators.
3. other pertinent information from nominator.

Appendices should be limited to not more than 20 pages (20 sheets of paper printed front and back).

Eight (8) complete sets of the Nomination Form and supporting materials (cannot be returned) must be submitted to arrive no later than Monday, March 1, 2010, to: 

NACADA Annual Awards Program
National Academic Advising Association 
Kansas State University 
2323 Anderson Avenue, Suite 225 
Manhattan, KS   66502-2912