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Advising Community on Advising Graduate & Professional Students

This community comprises professionals who advise post-baccalaureate students. We welcome all who work with traditional graduate students, professional degree seekers, adults returning for advanced degrees or certificates, and alternatively delivered and structured graduate and professional programs in any modality. Small in size but great in commitment, our Community provides a mutually supportive context for discussion of issues particular to serving these student populations. Ongoing projects include encouraging discussion of pertinent topics on our LISTSERV, providing resources to help advisors help students, advocating for our graduate and professional students, and increasing our presence at all levels: national, regional, and institutional. 

Welcome!

We are excited you are exploring our Advising Community which supports those that are graduate and professional students as well as the professionals that support this population. The advising needs of post-baccalaureate students are no less complex than that of undergraduate learners and these needs are underpinned by an expansive body of adult learning theory and literature ripe for application. The field of graduate, doctoral, and professional student advising and support is growing rapidly. Thus, the need for this professional community is never more needed.

The Steering Committee and I invite you to interact with this page, join our LISTSERV, and consider becoming an official member of NACADA’s Advising Community for Graduate and Professional Students. 

About Working with Grad & Professional Students

  • The advising needs of post-baccalaureate students are no less complex than that of undergraduate learners and these needs are underpinned by an expansive body of adult learning theory and literature ripe for application.
  • The field of graduate, doctoral, and professional student advising and support is growing rapidly. Thus, the need for this professional community is never more needed.

Stay Up-to-Date on GPS Activities

The GPS Advising Community has many ongoing initiative such as: 

  1. Newsletters and notes
  2. GPS Mentoring Program
  3. GPS Collaboratives
  4. GPS Histories Project
  5. GPS Talk Series

To stay up-to-date on all of these intiatives as more, join our LinkedIn and Listserv

GPS Mentoring: Class of 2023-2024

The Graduate and Professional Student (GPS) Mentor Program, supported by the GPS Advising Community, is accepting applications for the 2023-2024 GPS Mentoring Program Cohort! This one-year Mentor Program is looking for mentees with less than two years of experience and mentors with more than two years of experience. For more information and the application, visit the Mentor Program webpage. 

Mentor and Mentee applications are now open and due Friday, May 26, 2023. 

ACD Service Award

Wienke (GPS) Receives Advising Communities Division Service Award

Jordan Wienke was the recipient of a ACD Service Award in NACADA's 2022 Global Awards Program.

View Webster University's press release to read more about Wienke. 

 

Supporting Graduate Students Podcasts

Adventures in Advising

Listen to an Adventures in Advising podcast all about supporting graduate students and featuring some members of our Community.  See JULY 6, 2020 | SEASON 1 | EPISODE 15

Get Online...Podcast Series

The Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (Great Plains IDEA) has launched a three-part series that is part of its “Get Online…” podcast.  The podcast series includes the following three episodes:

Episode 1:  Academic Advising: Removing Barriers for Online Graduate Students (Guest Expert: Holli Fergus, Director of Academic Advising at American Public University System)
Episode 2:  Academic Advising: Building Community for Online Graduate Students (Guest Expert: Jamie Heck, Director of Academic Affairs at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing)
Episode 3:  Academic Advising: Incorporating Career Advising (Guest Expert: Kimberly Smith, Assistant Provost of Academic Advising Initiatives at Virginia Tech University)

The podcasts are available at www.gpidea.org/podcast.  Listeners can also find “Get Online...” at most podcast directories.

The podcasts are available at www.gpidea.org/podcast.  Listeners can also find “Get Online...” at most podcast directories.

GPS Talks Series

April 2022 GPS Talk Series - Community: What Do We Need and How Can We Take Action?

Wednesday, April 20 or Tuesday, April 19 2:00pm CT

Join members and friends of the Advising Community for Graduate and Professional Students as they host their first quarterly Graduate and Professional Students (GPS) Talk Series of 2022! The focus of this April event will be Community: What Do We Need and How Can We Take Action. This event will be an introduction to the Advising Community and then guided discussions around the topic of creating community for those that work with graduate and professional students! 

Presentors
Katelyn Talbott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
Krista Smith, University of Florida
Mark Nakamoto, University of Hawai’I at Manoa 

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The recording of this online meeting will be accessible after the online session is held via the Advising Community on Graduate & Professional Students webpage and shared via the community listserv.

June 2020 - Step One: Onboarding

Join Melissa Brown (Carnegie Mellon University) Allyssa Finder (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kyle McCool (Webster University), Colleen Rose (Indiana University) Katelyn Talbott (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Rafael Almanzar (Texas A&M University) for an online meeting of panelists discussing onboarding students. 

View the Recording
View the Slides

Mental Health Articles: 

  • https://www.naspa.org/blog/promoting-graduate-student-mental-health-the-role-of-student-affairs-professionals-and-faculty
  • https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Need-to-Talk-More-About/247002
  • Sample Off-Campus Survivial Manual: https://studentlife.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/OCSM-for-website.pdf
March 2020 - Nuances of Advising Graduate International Students

Presented by: Jordan Wienke, Ian Schonberg, and Shabeer Hussain Amirali (all GPS steering committee members)

View the Recording
View the Slides
Sample of Arrival Budge for International Students

Grad/Professional Student Appreciation Week Programming Ideas

To view programming ideas, please click HERE.