Marsha A. Miller, a NACADA member since 1988, joined the Executive Office staff in 2002 and retired in June, 2019. Kansas State University granted her Emerita status in April 2019. Marsha continues as member of the NACADA Journal's Editorial Team.
Marsha began her academic career as a history and political science major at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she served as a peer advisor in the College of Education. She earned graduate degrees from the University of Iowa and Emporia State University and has taught pre-K to graduate students. Marsha advised and taught at Cloud County Community College for 14 years where she chaired the faculty committee that restructured Cloud's advising and learning assistance programs. She was director of Cloud's Advisement Center when it received the NACADA program award and the Noel-Levitz citation for Excellence in Student Retention.
Marsha presents at conferences of academic and student affairs organizations and publishes on advising and underprepared student issues. She served as co-editor for three NACADA books: Comprehensive Advisor Training and Development: Practices that Deliver, Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College and Beyond Foundations: Developing as a Master Academic Advisor. Marsha served as the managing editor for books published by NACADA between 2003 and 2018; she is Emerita Managing Editor of NACADA's two journals, NACADA Review: Academic Advising Praxis and Perspectives and the NACADA Journal.
During her time as NACADA Assistant Director for Resources, Marsha was assigned to the NACADA Research Center at Kansas State University, served as the Executive Office liaison to the NACADA Publications Advisory Board, and was the NACADA Director on the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) from 2010 - 2019. In the latter role Marsha served as the expert consultant to the committee that revised the CAS Academic Advising Program Standards, helped write the CAS Standards for Transfer Programs and Services, chaired the committee that revised the CAS Learning Assistance Program Standards, and chaired the 2018 restructure of the CAS General Standards. Reach Marsha at [email protected].
2019 Foundations materials