On the Horizon: The Future of Academic Advising and Technology

Live Internet Webinar Broadcast

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Join us for our most daring online adventure to date, when Karen Thurmond (The University of Memphis), George Steele (The Ohio Learning Network), Arthur Esposito (Virginia Commonwealth University), Joline Vanderwal (Regent University), Wes Lipschultz (Penn State University), and Clay Schwenn and Kurt Xyst (University of Washington) take us "where no NACADA Webinar has gone before!" Along with telling us about some of the exciting technology-related innovations they are using on their campuses to engage advisees, our Presenters will be giving us the opportunity to experience what happens when we use "streaming video" in this medium, showing us how they use "flash" technology, and explaining what we can learn from the 2007 Horizon Report.

Advising by Design Seminar, Administrators' Institute and Assessment Institute

Register NOW for these NACADA professional development events. The Doubletree Hotel San Diego Mission Valley is located in the heart of the San Diego Mission Valley District. Step outside and hop on the trolley to Downtown San Diego, Old Town San Diego, the Gaslamp Quarter, Seaport Village, or even the border of Mexico! We look forward to seeing you in February 2008 at this wonderful location. Click for the registration form.

Region Conference Chairs and their committees are busy planning the details for the 10 regional conferences which will be held next spring! Your region conference is a great place to get involved -- as a presenter, a volunteer, a committee member or to come and network! 

Each year, a "Best of Region" presentation is selected for each Region Conference. Those chosen will receive financial assistance to attend and present their session at the 2008 Annual Conference in Chicago!

NACADA is proud to announce that the applications for the 2008-2010 Class of Emerging Leaders and Mentors are now available on line. The purpose of the Emerging Leader program is to encourage members from diverse groups to get involved in leadership opportunities within the organization, outfit participants with the skills and tools necessary to pursue elected and appointed leadership positions, to increase the number of leaders from diverse groups and to encourage and assist members of underrepresented populations to attend State, Regional, or National Conferences. Emerging Leaders are provided funding to assist them with travel and involvement in the association for the first year of their two-year commitment to the program.

Applications for both the Emerging Leaders and Mentors are due May 1, 2008 with final selection being made by June 2008.

For information the program, including criteria and applications, go to http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/EmergingLeaders/Index.htm.

Please welcome the following new Interest Group Chairs to the NACADA leadership. Contact information for these Chairs is on the Interest Group's web site at the applicable link below. Many thanks to the outgoing Chairs for these Interest Groups whose time and efforts while serving in these leadership roles are truly appreciated!

Beverley Childress -- new Health Professions Advising Interest Group Chair, replacing Ruby Mason who served as Chair from 2004-2007. 

Joan Shinault and CarolAnn Popovich -- new High School to College Advising Interest Group Co-Chairs, replacing Gaye Golter DiGregorio who served as Chair from 2006-2007. 

Dana Zahorik and Justin Fithian -- new Peer Advising and Mentoring Interest Group Co-Chairs, replacing Heidi Koring, Susan Campbell, and Lynn Freeman who served as co-Chairs from 2003-2007. 

Jessica Bigger -- new New Advising Professionals Interest Group Chair, replacing Nathan Vickers who served as Chair from 2005-2007. 

Marcia Bimmel -- new First-Generation College Student Advising Interest Group Co-Chair; Marcia be assisting Joe Murray with this group.

Click HERE for a complete directory of the NACADA Leadership.

Faculty Advising: Collaborating for Success

June 19-20, 2008 in Portsmouth, Va.

Faculty members have an essential and vital role in the academic advising experiences of students on most campuses. Data in the NACADA 2004 publication, The Status of Academic Advising, indicates that over 80% of four-year institutions, almost 50% of public two-year colleges and 80% of private two-year institutions utilize models which rely on faculty involvement in academic advising. Since faculty play such an integral role in academic advising, it is imperative that faculty and administrators work together to assure that faculty have the information, tools and resources to effectively engage in the advising process.

This two-day seminar will provide participants with the opportunity to enhance faculty advising and programs as well as gain essential insights on ways to foster collaboration between faculty and administrators responsible for advising. Click here to learn more.

2008 NACADA Academic Advising Summer Institutes

June 22-27 - Portsmouth, Va.

and

July 27-August 1 - Austin, Texas

The slate of candidates for the 2008 NACADA Leadership elections is available on the NACADA website. Each candidate's platform statement will be linked to her/his name on this list for your review within the next few weeks. Additional details on the 2008 elections and online voting procedures will be sent to members and will also be available soon on the election webpage.

NOTE: Only those individuals whose NACADA memberships are current and paid in full as of Friday, January 25, 2008, will be eligible to vote in the 2008 elections. If you know of individuals whose memberships expired on September 1, 2007 and have not yet been renewed, please encourage them to complete this renewal immediately to secure their voting privileges for NACADA's future leadership.

The December edition of our quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today, was sent to all members on November 16th. If you missed your email notification, you can find it here.

Authors have been hard at work preparing their articles for the March edition, and we are now discussing article topics for the June edition. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts with your colleagues in this format, check out the Guidelines today!

Featured this month in the Clearinghouse:

• Advising Ethics and Decisions. Advisors often face situations with students and colleagues that require making ethical decisions. There are many factors that must be considered when seeking a best solution for all involved. This month Paula Landon, Brigham Young University, delineates the factors that can help advisors make the "tough" decisions.

NACADA Webinars

Live Broadcast Recordings - Now Available on CD!

Available Titles Include:

• College Student Mental Health: Information and Suggestions for Academic Advising
• Legal Issues in Academic Advising
• Academic Advising's Integral Role in the Academic Success and Persistence of Students
• Expanding Your Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising
• Student Learning Outcomes: Evidence of the Teaching and Learning Components of Academic Advising
• Components of a Successful Faculty Advising Program: Institutional Commitment, Professional Development, Incentives, and Recognition
• Academic Advising Syllabus: Advising As Teaching in Action
• Advising as Teaching

An outstanding resource for group or individual professional development, NACADA's Webinars are 60-90 minute, focused presentations concerning topics of importance to academic advisors and advising administrators.   All NACADA Webinar presenters are actively involved in academic advising on their campuses.  Now you can view these highly successful broadcasts on your personal desktop or project on a big screen for group viewing and discussion. 

Purchase any combination of 5 or more CDs and save $10 on each!  Visit the Webinar On Disk web page to learn more and place your order today!

Academic Advising and Support in Residential Learning Communities

Webinar - Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Is your institution or advising unit thinking about ways to bring academic advising and support beyond the classroom setting? Kansas State University's Derek Jackson and Nick Lander contend that Residence Hall Communities are an ideal place to provide these services. Plan now to join them in a discussion of innovative programs that have been designed at various institutions to either supplement academic advising and support or merge the residential community experience with the academic experience of students.

Shared Responsibilities: What Advisors and Administrators Need to Know to Better Assist GLBTQA Students

Webinar - Thursday, February 7, 2008

Are you interested in knowing how to better serve diverse populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied (LGBTQA) students, but unsure how to assess your current efforts and create an Action Plan for the future?  Then this is the Event for you!

Plan now to join LGBTA Concerns Commission Chair Jennifer Joslin and NACADA Vice-President and former LGBTA Concerns Commissions Chair Casey Self as they discuss how education, assessment and action are necessary to better assist LGBTQA students on our campuses. Learn about current issues that LGBTQA students face, assess the current strategies in your office and on your campus, and take steps to utilize resources and better assist this student population. 

Jennifer and Casey firmly believe that as advisors and administrators, we have a shared responsibility to improve the work that we are doing!  Therefore, for the first time ever in the Webinar format, they will offer an extraordinary after-event opportunity: Participants may submit their Action Plan for feedback and consultation!  Don't miss your chance for interaction with these generous experts.  LEARN MORE and REGISTER now to secure your participation!

Now available! Advising Special Populations: Adult Learners, Community College Students, LGBTQ Students, Multicultural Students, Students on Probation, Undecided Students. Linda Huff & Peggy Jordan, Editors

• Chapter 1: Advising Adult Learners. Carol Ann Baily with contributions from Sue Adams, Diana Churchill, Teresa Cole, Alice Davis, Teri Farr, Sarah Larson, Matthew McCrickard, Colleen Palmer, Kenn Skorupa, Todd Siben and Jennifer Woltjen.
• Chapter 2: Community Colleges: 100 Years and Still Growing Strong. Peggy Jordan and George Maxwell.
• Chapter 3: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Students. Jennifer Joslin.
• Chapter 4: Multicultural Advising in an Increasingly Diverse Academic World. Linda Huff and Blane Harding.
• Chapter 5: Students on Academic Probation. Shelly Gehrke and Jeanette Wong.
• Chapter 6: Undecided Students: A Special Population. Virginia N. Gordon.

The fall 2007 issue of the NACADA Journal is on the press!  Watch your mailbox for your copy in mid-to-late December. This issue will include:

• A Brief Report on the NACADA Commission on the Assessment of Advising Survey Results

• Institutional Vision at Proprietary Schools: Advising For Profit
• Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Outstanding Graduate Advisor Characteristics
• Advising as Teaching: Establishing Outcomes, Developing Tools and Assessing Student Learning
• The Advisor as Servant: The Theoretical and Philosophical Relevance of Servant-Leadership to Academic Advising

• Adding Insight to Intrusive Advising and its Effectiveness with Probation Students

• Book Review reference citations

Can't wait for the issue?  Sneak a peak at your colleagues' reviews of the latest literature in the field on the Journal's book review Website.

Dreaming of Winter Break? Catching up on your professional reading? Consider requesting a book for review in the NACADA Journal. Completed reviews for books selected now will be due in mid-March.  A sampling of books available for review include: Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement, How to Win a Sports Scholarship and On teaching and learning: Putting the principles and practices of dialogue education into action. Find these and more on the Journal's Website.

At the Annual Conference in Baltimore, many of you signed up for the Commission and Interest Group (CIG) list serves either at the CIG Fair or on signup sheets circulated at the annual meetings for these groups.  The task of updating these list serves accordingly has now been completed. For instructions on posting messages to the list serves, please visit this webpage and click on the link for the applicable list serve(s). Instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing to these list serves are also available.

Your observance of network etiquette is encouraged and appreciated when communicating via these lists.

Thank you for your interest in and participation on these list serves!  Remember - these list serves may not be used to promote commercial products, programs or services, or for campaigning purposes. If you have a job announcement that you would like to post, please e-mail your announcements to us via nacada@ksu.edu for posting on the NACADA Position Announcements pages.

The 2008 Awards Call for Nominations, including nomination/application criteria, deadlines and forms, is available online. All information and forms can be accessed on the NACADA Annual Awards Program website. The deadline for the receipt of nomination materials for most award categories is March 3, 2008. Please closely review the applicable information in the 2008 Awards Call before submitting your final nomination materials. Refer to the 2008 Call for Nominations on the Awards website for more detailed information about all award categories, applicable eligibility criteria, and submission procedures.

To help minimize the number of e-mails you receive that are generated from list serves, you might want to consider setting up each of your list subscriptions for the "digest" mode. All you need to do is send an e-mail using only the following command in the body of the message, where "listname" is the list's ID (such as N-ADVADMIN for the Advising Administration Commission list serve):

SET listname DIGEST

Leave the subject line blank. Be sure to delete any signature lines and/or turn off auto-inclusion of your signature file before sending the above command. (LISTSERV treats signature lines as commands and will send error messages saying "unknown command".)

Should you set the digest mode and then decide later that you prefer the original format and want to turn off the digest mode, follow the same procedures as outlined above, but include the following command in the e-mail body:

Set listname mail

Note: A downside to using the digest format is that, each time you reply to the list, all of the history that is there gets posted to the digest every time. It could make the digested e-mails too long to bother reading unless you can convince other subscribers to edit their e-mails to remove all of the history.

Note: NACADA list serves do not support attachments, primarily due to the risk of viruses. To share information in document form with other subscribers, you will need to post it on your institution's website and provide a link, or ask colleagues to contact you individually to request that the information be sent to them directly. You could also include the text directly in your e-mail posting.

The list of volunteers compiled in Baltimore was thrown away when the booths were dismantled on Saturday, October 20. If you signed up to volunteer for the 2008 Chicago conference and have not already contacted her, please email Bev Martin at bmartin@ksu.edu.  Thanks for your help in creating a new list and for volunteering!

• Check out the November 5 edition of Inside Higher Education for the article Involved Parents, Satisfied Students on students, parent involvement, and even better, the importance of meeting with an advisor (near the end of the article).
• 'Swirling' New College Trend: Easy transfers, online courses driving college trend via AZCentral.com.
• Some Community-College Students Fall Through the Cracks in Their First Month in the November 16 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

In accordance with the Kansas State University holiday schedule, the NACADA Executive Office will close on Monday, December 24, 2007 and will reopen on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. 

Best wishes to all NACADA members and their families for a safe and happy holiday season!