NACADA Advising Communities provide members the opportunity to engage with other professionals in areas such as similar institution types, academic areas, interests, or student populations .  All current members can join up to 4 Advising Communities.  All Communities are involved in:

• Advancing NACADA’s strategic goals
• Proposing and facilitating professional development activities around Community topics to engage members
• Providing resources to advance the professional development of members while focusing on the specific area of the Community

The ACD helps advisors help students! 

• Academic Coaching
• Adult Learners
• Advising Administration
• Advisor Training & Development
• Appreciative Advising
• Assessment of Advising
• Business Majors
• Canada 
• Career Advising
• Distance Advising for Online Education
• Education Majors
• Faculty Advising
• First-Generation College Student Advising
• First-Year Students
• Global Engagement
• Graduate and Professional Students
• Health Professions Advising 
• High Achieving Students
• High School to College Advising

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• LGBTQA Advising and Advocacy
• Liberal Arts
• Peer Advising & Mentoring
• Probation/Dismissal/Reinstatement Issues
• Small Colleges and Universities
• Social Justice
• STEM
• Student Athletes
• Students with Disabilities
• Students with Experiences in the Foster Care System
• Technology in Advising
• Theory, Philosophy, & History of Advising
• Transfer Students
• Two-Year Colleges
• Undecided and Exploratory Students
• Veterans, Military Students and Family Members
• Well-Being & Advisor Retention