| Who
are our Presenters?
Pat
Folsom
Assistant Provost
for Enrollment Services
Director, Academic
Advising Center
University of Iowa
Pat Folsom
has been associated with the University of Iowa's Academic
Advising Center since 1981, serving first as an academic
advisor, then Assistant Director (1989-2000) for advisor
development, and finally as Director (2000-present).
Under Pat's direction, the Center's advisor training and
development program was selected as an Exemplary Practice
for ongoing advisor training in Advisor Training: Exemplary
Practices in the Development of Advisor Skills (2003).
Although she has presented at NACADA
Conferences on a variety of topics, Pat's most recent professional
focus has been on advisor training and development, including
Creating a Blueprint for Your First Year of Advising
and Beyond at the 2006 NACADA Annual Conference in
Las Vegas. She served as editor for the New Advisor
Guidebook: Mastering the Art of Advising Through the First-Year
of Advising and Beyond (2007) and serves as Chair of
the Advisor Training and Development
Commission (2007-2009). She
also serves NACADA as member of the Publications Advisory
Board (2007-2009) and the Academic Advising Administrators’
Institute’s Advisory Board.
Pat received her
MLS from SUNY, Geneseo and her BA from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Jennifer
Joslin
Senior
Associate Director for Advisor Training and Development
Academic
Advising Center
University of Iowa
Along with her duties as the Senior
Associate Director for Advisor Training and Development
at The University of Iowa Academic Advising Center, Jennifer
Joslin has served NACADA in a variety of capacities,
including as current LGBTA Concerns Commission Chair.
Her presentations on Advisor Development programming, as
well as LGBTQ and diversity training, have been chosen for
commission-sponsorship at the Salt Lake City, Dallas, Cincinnati,
and Indianapolis NACADA national conventions. Jennifer also
collaborated with Frank Yoder as a chapter co-author for
the New Advisor Guidebook: Mastering the Art of Advising
Through the First-Year of Advising and Beyond (2007).
Jennifer's commitment
to NACADA also includes serving on the Content Review Board
for the Foundations of Academic Advising CD Series: CD3,
Understanding Cultural Identity and Worldview Development
(2006-2007); the Editorial Board for the Special Populations
Monograph (2007); Commission Division Representative for
the Emerging Leaders Program Development Team;
the Content Review Panel for the Academic Advising Handbook
(2nd Edition); chapter author of Advising Special Populations:
LGBTQ Students in the Special Populations Monograph
(2007); and co-chair with Pat Mason-Browne and Kathy Keasler
of the 2006 NACADA Region 6 Conference. Jennifer earned
her PhD and Masters degrees at The University of Iowa and
her undergraduate degree at Occidental College.
Pat
and Jennifer, along with colleagues Frank
Yoder and Maureen Schaffer, have collaborated on Advisor
Training and Development programming at a variety of NACADA
Annual Conferences. They offer a preconference workshop
that is designed for advisors new to the profession and
have written on advisor development in the NACADA Clearinghouse
of Academic Advising Resources.
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