P1: Building Your Advising Assessment Plan
noon-3 p.m. | Cost: $70
David Spight | University of California-Irvine
Academic advising is an integral piece to the mission of any institution of higher education. How do you know if your advising program is effective? Developing an assessment plan can seem like a daunting task but it does not have to be. By starting with some basic questions, and keeping it simple, assessment can be very easy.
The aim of the session is to provide participants with an understanding of how to develop an assessment plan. In this session, participants will work collaboratively on developing student learning, academic advisor, and program outcomes, and then translating those into a plan. The activities participants engage in during the presentation will provide them with tools, activities, and examples so that they can return to their own institution equipped to develop their own assessment plan for their advising program.
P2: Fostering a Culture of Support in Changing Times
noon-3 p.m. | Cost: $70
Corey Hollis | University of California-Los Angeles
Marian Gabra | University of California-Los Angeles
Brian Latham | University of California-Los Angeles
Shahla Moreno | University of California-Los Angeles
Axel Cortes | University of California-Los Angeles
The last three years have been extraordinarily challenging. All of our routines, processes, and expectations were abruptly disrupted and upended. In addition, the COVID pandemic led many people to reconsider their values and priorities in life, resulting in the Great Resignation. But these crises simultaneously gave us the opportunity to rethink our unit's culture and to reshape it more intentionally into a culture of support to cultivate a team that is highly engaged, mutually caring, inclusively valued, and deeply grateful to be a part of such a community. Together, these efforts have been highly effective in creating a nurturing environment that has enabled us to recruit and retain staff even in a challenging labor market. While the advising profession has always been intrinsically meaningful, it is not always be extrinsically compensated, but we have sought to make our work culture a place where people know they are impactful, deeply valued, and supported. We have been very successful in fostering a culture consonant with peoples' values and priorities, in which our team trusts the leadership and feels valued and confident that together, we can face any challenge fully supported and with integrity. In this workshop, attendees will hear from leadership and staff about the challenges faced and the steps taken, and participate in activities that will enable them to leave with a concrete idea of the values and culture they would like to shape in their spaces and some steps to move forward with making such a change.
P3: Inspiring Change: Creating an Advising Philosophy to Improve Your Advising Practice
1-3 p.m. | Cost: $50
Megumi Makino-Kanehiro | University of Hawaii at Manoa
Is your advising on auto-pilot? Whether we are aware of it or not, each of us has an advising philosophy that guides our advising. In this pre-conference workshop, participants will integrate personal reflection, their advising interests on their own campuses and in NACADA, and core values to create an advising philosophy. In this interactive session, participants will work through a guided series of prompts. They will reflect and share with others as a way to develop a meaningful advising philosophy that will then guide their advising practice. While this session is designed to benefit all advisors, it may be most beneficial for newer advisors because it will provide them with a framework for how they can envision their work as advisors.
P4: Cancelled
P5: Navigating Change from the Middle: How to Enact Positive Change When You're Not the Decision Maker
1-3 p.m. | Cost: $50
Stephanie Kraft-Terry | University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jennifer Brown | Windward Community College
Advisors and Advising Administrators are commonly in positions that reveal areas needing improvement within higher education settings. While they are often capable of identifying solutions that will ultimately improve the student experience, they are not always the ones with the power to affect immediate change. To successfully navigate leading change from the middle, advisors must understand both organizational change in the higher education setting and the theories surrounding the social bases of power and how to apply the power/interaction model for interpersonal influence to their benefit. This session will introduce these theories and explore mechanisms to translate them to practice. Attendees will learn to leverage the theories related to individual sources of power to influence positive change in the absence of formal leadership titles or decision-making ability. This session will include case study review and both small and large group discussion of strategies for success in leading from their current roles. Attendees are encouraged to bring examples from their own institution to explore with the group.