Region	Date	Location	Chair	Early Discounts for Registration Fees and Hotel Rates Remember:  Hotel blocks may fill before these dates, so reserve early!
1. Northeast	March 21-23	North Conway, NH	Gail Stubbs & Susan Kolls	February 20
2. Mid-Atlantic	March 29-31	McLean, VA	Chuck Allen & Jenna Dolan	March 5
3. Mid-South	May 20-22	Asheville, NC	Janina DeHart	April 29
4. Southeast	March 4-6	Tallahassee, FL	Brad Brock & Michele MacDonald	February 1-Registration fees Check hotel site for overflow room availability.
5. Great Lakes	March 4-6	Milwaukee, WI	Gwyn Wallander	February 13
6. North Central	May 31-June 1	Duluth, MN	Lisa Maniak	April 30 NOTE: Presentation Proposals are being accepted until February 15!
7. South Central	March 8-10	Austin, TX	Michael Balog & JP Regalado	February 15 Check hotel site for overflow room availability.
8. Northwest	April 23-25	Boise, ID	Kimber Shaw  & Cyndi Faircloth	April 2 - Registration Fee March 31- Hotel Rates
9. Pacific	March 21-23	San Diego, CA	Torrey Mandell & Jacob Lacy	February 26
10. Rocky Mountain	May 14-16	Mesa/Phoenix, AZ	Roxie Catts & Ann Parker	April 20

Click here for the list of State Conferences.

Would you like to recognize a colleague who does an exemplary job with academic advising on your campus?  Does your campus have an outstanding advising program currently being implemented? Are you planning to submit an award nomination, but just haven't done so yet?  The deadline for submitting nominations for the NACADA 2007 Awards Program is Monday, March 5th.

All nomination materials must be received by March 5, including the appropriate number of support documents.  Please closely review the applicable information in the 2007 Awards Call before submitting your final nomination materials (there are changes in the criteria for certain awards). The 2007 NACADA 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. Refer to the website for more detailed information about all award categories and applicable eligibility criteria and submission procedures.

Coming soon! - Watch for the March issue of NACADA's quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today. In this upcoming edition, we will feature:

• Practice What We Preach: Advising and the Hiring Process by Thomas S. Edwards (Vice President for Academic Affairs, Thomas College)
• Advising Without Walls: An Introduction to Facebook as an Advising Tool by Julie Traxler (Rutgers University)
• Hot Summer, Cool Institute by John Nilsson (University of Utah)
• Discovering the Best Way to Institute Change by Carlos Delgadillo (Spokane Falls Community College)
• to advise you - a poem by Felicia Zamora, Kathy Thornhill & Katya Stewart-Sweeney (Colorado State University)

We are currently accepting article and "Sparkler" submissions for the June edition (submission deadline is March 15th). 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: Building Bridges: Creating Effective Communication in Advising. February often presents advisors with a little down time to consider how they can best meet student needs. In this month's featured article, J.D. Chase and Melissa Chase (Radford University) suggest solutions to issues that can affect communication between academic advisors and their advisees. 

The NACADA Research Committee announces a Request For Proposals (RFP) for NACADA grants that support advising research. Stipends up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) are available to support a single-year proposal. Practicing professionals (administrators and faculty), as well as graduate students seeking support for dissertation research, are eligible.

Research proposals are due March 15, 2007. Find information and application here.

Need research ideas? The Committee has delineated a research agenda listing ten advising topics deemed to be critical within advising research. Find these topics here.

Have a research topic? Want to discuss your topic with other members researching similar topic? Join the Research Registry.

Looking forward to a little downtime after registration? Consider reviewing a book for the NACADA Journal. Find available titles posted on the Book Review website. Reviewers must be current NACADA members. Reviewers have three months from the receipt of the book to read and write the review. The book becomes the property of the reviewer upon acceptance of the review for publication.

NACADA is excited to have connected with Counseling Arabia in the United Emirates for their annual conference on advising, counseling, and career counseling. The conference titled Coaching, Counseling and Well Being will be held April 18-19, 2007, at the HCT Women's College in Dubai. NACADA Associate Director Charlie Nutt served as a featured speaker at the 2006 conference and will again for the 2007 conference. For information on the conference, including registration and the call for proposals which is open until February 10, 2007, visit the conference website.

This Pocket Guide (order #PG01) has been developed from the content of the Foundations in Academic Advising CD#1 - What is Academic Advising? (DCD01A). The Pocket Guide contains information from each of the modules of CD#1.

Whether an accompaniment to the CD or a stand alone publication, Pocket Guide #1 is a great resource for an introduction to or a refresher on the basics of academic advising.

To order your copy, click here.

Academic Advising Delivery Models - Pocket Guide #2

Pocket Guide #2 was developed from the content of the Foundations in Academic Advising CD#2 - Academic Advising Delivery Models (DCD01B). This handy, carry-along publication contains information from each of the modules of CD#2. It makes an excellent handout for group training that accompanies use of the CD. You'll definitely want to add this Pocket Guide to your Advising Library!

To order your cop, click here.

Advising as Teaching - Webinar CD

NACADA has produced a CD of its first Webinar presentation, Advising as Teaching.  NACADA Past President Nancy King described academic advising as a teaching and learning process that includes a curriculum, pedagogy, and learning outcomes.  For more information on this webinar, click here.

To order your copy, click here.

The On Course National Conference will be held March 1-3, 2007 in Dallas, Texas.

Designed for college educators in all disciplines, the conference offers dozens of sessions featuring innovative best practices in student success...from immediately usable instructional and counseling strategies to campus-wide programs that increase retention and student academic success.

For more information, visit the Conference website or contact Bill "Shoes" Johnson.