Think you know everything there is to know about Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising?  Here's a chance to find out!  Accept Blane Harding's challenge to Expand Your Comfort Zone and join us for the final WEBINAR of the 2006-2007 season on Tuesday, June 12th.  Only a few seats remain and registration will soon close, so go to the Webinar Webpage NOW to learn more and REGISTER TODAY!

Can't attend because you are swamped with new student orientations, registration, or vacations in June?  Pre-order the CD with end-of-year money to utilize with faculty or advisors in the fall for beginning your professional development year.  You may order this CD (DW05CD) by using this order form.

These intensive, week-long Institutes are centered around the goal of exploring all aspects of academic advising and then developing practical, individualized Action Plans for enhancement of academic advising on your campuses. Participants in the Burlington Institute will want to consider attending the Effectively Engaging Faculty Seminar immediately preceding the Institute.

A great line-up of general sessions, topical sessions and workshops will be presented to

• Teams or individuals from an institution desiring to enhance campus advising services.
• Academic advising campus task force members.
• Advising program directors.
• Campus administrators, including deans or vice presidents with responsibility for advising.

To review special benefits to your program and the schedule of topics, and to register for an Institute, visit the Summer Institute Webpage.   There's still time to register!  Questions:  e-mail  matteson@ksu.edu.

The 2007 NACADA Awards Program Selection Committee is pleased to announce that the following members have been awarded Wesley R. Habley Summer Institute Scholarships for 2007:

Janet Ellison                Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing, Quincy, IL
Amber N. Hughes         University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
Debbie Marlow            University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Deborah Nakashima    Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, HI
Steven Viveiros           Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA

Third Annual

Effectively Engaging Faculty in Academic Advising Seminar

Burlington, Vermont

June 21-22, 2007

Faculty members have an essential and vital role in the academic advising experiences of students on most campuses. Eighty per cent of four-year public and private institutions and 50% of public two-year institutions utilize models which rely on faculty involvement in academic advising.

Join us to ensure advising on your campus is effective in helping students prepare for success.  A "Best Practices" segment will help bring together proven ideas for use on campus.  Sessions will provide skill development for effective advising as well as hands-on strategies and material that faculty and administrators, who work with faculty advisors, can take back to their campuses to share.

Topics to be covered include:

• Institutional advising mission statements and expected learning outcomes
• Content of an advising curriculum
• Ways to meet faculty advising needs
• Rewards and recognition for faculty advising
• Support services referrals
• Identification of what information and to whom information can be shared
• Identification and assessment of the "core" qualities of effective faculty advisors
• Various assessment techniques

The daily schedule of sessions can be accessed here:  http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/FacultySeminar/schedule.htm

Participants in this seminar will definitely want to consider registering for the NACADA Academic Advising Summer Institute as well (see above).

Join us in learning advising strategies that are effective in helping students prepare for success on your campus. Reserve your hotel room now - the block may fill well before the the June 1 deadline. Click here to learn more and to register now!

The ten NACADA Regional Conferences attracted over 2800 participants this year.  The previous attendance record was set in 2004 with 2276 advisors and administrators.  A BIG THANKS to all the Regional Conference Chairs and their committees for providing excellent opportunities for those who help foster student success!

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Baltimore Convention Center/Hyatt Regency

OCTOBER 18-21, 2007

Visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/NationalConf/2007/index.htm for details on the areas below, plus other information.

• Session Titles/Topical Tracks: Over 350 session titles (including presenters and institutions) are listed according to advising tracks or topics. You can easily view the sessions offered in your areas of interest.
• Daily Conference Schedule
• Hotel and Conference registration forms
• Optional Tours-Extra fees apply. Our itineraries are being finalized for three daytime tours on October 18, (Washington, DC, Annapolis, plus Camden Yards and the Sports Legend museum). Evening options may include a Washington, DC moonlight tour, and a dinner cruise in the Inner Harbor. Check the conference webpage after June 8 for full descriptions.
• Volunteer for a couple of hours at the conference -- it's fun! Contact Bethany Spore at bethany.spore@umbc.edu.

The printed Registration Brochure will be mailed in early July.

Information is now available on the 2008 NACADA Leadership elections, including a list of positions to be elected, eligibility criteria, position overviews, and an online nomination form. Election information and printed nomination forms will also be available in the NACADA booth in the Exhibits area at the Annual Conference in Baltimore and in the back of the Conference program. Nomination forms can be submitted either online, at the Conference, or by fax or mail. All nominations will be due to the Executive Office by Friday, November 2, 2007.

If you are interested in becoming a candidate for a NACADA leadership position -- now or in the future -- we encourage you to review this information to learn more about the leadership opportunities available to you. If you have any questions, please contact the Executive Office.

The June edition of our quarterly e-Publication, Academic Advising Today, was sent to all members on May 15th. If you inadvertently deleted your email notification, you can find it here.

We have begun reviewing manuscripts for the September edition, and among those accepted for publication are:

•  "Saving Face(book)?: Engage Through Facebook and Retain Relevance" by Art Esposito (Virginia Commonwealth University)

•  "Teaching Students to Become Responsible Advisees" by Stephen O. Wallace (Shippensburg University)

We will continue to accept article and *Sparkler* submissions for the September edition through June 15th. We have also begun discussing topics for the December edition (submission deadline September 1).  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:

Digital Distractions. Jennifer Endres and Danielle Tisinger, University of Minnesota, discuss the skills different technologies promote in our students, and offer some suggestions for advisors who seek to encourage student growth.

Looking forward to a little downtime? Consider reviewing a book for the NACADA Journal. Several new titles are available through the Book Review Website. Reviewers must be current NACADA members; books requested now count for the 06-07 member year. 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.

  The NACADA Webinar Advisory Board and Management Team have been hard at work making plans for the 2007-2008 Webinar series.  The opening broadcast, which is planned for September 12th, will be on the topic of Mental Health Issues in Academic Advising.  It will be co-sponsored by NACADA and Kansas State University's College of Education, and the presenter will be K-State's Sherry Benton.

More information on dates, titles, and presenters for the 2007-2008 Webinar series will be available soon, so keep on eye on the Webinar homepage and upcoming issues of Highlights.  And mark your calendar TODAY for the season opening on September 12th!

Congratulations to all 2007 award recipients in the NACADA National Awards Program. These award recipients will be formally honored during the NACADA Annual Conference in Baltimore this fall. This year's recipients include the Virginia Gordon, Pacesetter, and Service to NACADA Award winners; 6 Outstanding Advising Award winners, 23 Outstanding Advising Certificates of Merit, 5 Outstanding New Advisor Award winners, 6 Outstanding New Advisor Certificates of Merit, 2 Outstanding Program Award winners, 1 Outstanding Program Certificates of Merit, 2 Advising Technology Innovation Award winners, 5 Advising Technology Innovation Certificates of Merit, 3 Summer Institute Scholarships, 4 NACADA Scholarships, and 1 Student Research Award winner.

Links to listings of all award recipients can be found at www.nacada.ksu.edu/Awards/PastRecipients.htm.

NACADA would like to recognize individuals who receive campus awards in 2007 for outstanding academic advising, faculty advising, or advising administration. If you would like to notify NACADA of a colleague who recently received a campus advising award, please provide us with this information by completing the short online submission form. Or, you can e-mail us at nacada@ksu.edu with the following information: exact name of the award; the award recipient's name, position title, department/unit, institution, complete mailing address, city/state/postal code, and e-mail address; and, your name and e-mail address.

NOTE: Campus advising award recipients do not need to be current NACADA members.

NACADA applauds these advising professionals on their achievements and appreciates their dedication and service to students. Congratulatory e-mails will be sent from NACADA and lists of the campus advising award recipients are posted to our website by award year.

Retirees will again be recognized by NACADA at the Awards Ceremony during the Annual Conference in Baltimore this fall. Retiree recognition forms are available on the web. If you know an advising colleague who retired during the past academic year or has plans to retire during the upcoming academic year, please complete the recognition form and submit it to the NACADA Executive Office by June 4th.

Academic advisors wishing to discuss issues surrounding retirement should consider subscribing to the NACADA Retirement list. Information regarding this list can be found at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Listserve/retirement.htm. Additionally, the June issue of Academic Advising Today includes the article "Managing the Transition to Retirement" by Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, Director Emeritus, Career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University.

Stretch your end-of-year funds by SAVING on NACADA's Foundations and Webinar CDs.

Order the 3-set Foundations Series CDs and Save $30.  This set includes:

CD#1:  What is Academic Advising?

CD#2:  Academic Advising Delivery            Models

CD#3:  Understanding Cultural Identify &            Worldview Development

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Order the 5-set Webinar Series CD's & Save $50.  The CD set includes:

• Advising as Teaching - Nancy King, Presenter
• Academic Advising Syllabus:  Advising as Teaching in Action - Karen Thurmond, Presenter
• Components of a Successful Faculty Advising Program:  Institutional Commitment, Professional Development, Incentives, & Recognition - Jayne Drake, Presenter
• Student Learning Outcomes:  Evidence of the Teaching  Learning Components of Academic Advising - Presenter, Tomarra Adams
• Expanding Your Comfort Zone:  Strategies for Developing& Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising - Blane Harding, Presenter (CD#5 sent after June 12 webinar broadcast)
• Any Pocket Guides developed to accompany the above CDs.

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We are excited to announce the location and dates for our Winter Professional Development Institutes. We hope you will join us in San Diego, California!

Plan now for these exciting events:

Winter Seminar (topic to be announced in August) - February 14-15, 2008

The Academic Advising Administrators' Institute - February 17-19, 2008

Assessment of Academic Advising Institute - February 20-22, 2008

Information will be added to our Institute webpages as it becomes available.

If your NACADA membership expires on September 1, 2007, you will be sent membership renewal forms in July.  For those of you planning to attend the 2007 annual conference in Baltimore, you may renew at the time you register for that conference, if you wish.  Thank you for your continued support of NACADA.  Our numbers are growing daily, and we hope to reach the 10,000-member mark before 2007 ends!

Interested in the issues of probation-dismissal-reinstatement?  A set of NACADA Journals containing classic articles has been compiled for easy access to these topics.  Click here for a list of the journal issues/articles included in the set and for ordering information. 

Save $73 by ordering this set versus ordering the articles individually!