Outstanding Advising Award Guidelines

There are two categories:

Academic Advising-Primary Role — Individuals whose primary role at the institution is the direct delivery of advising services to students. Nominees must spend at least 50% of their time on direct delivery of advising to students and have at least 3 years (calendar years) of experience in direct delivery of advising to students.
Faculty Academic Advising — Individuals whose primary responsibility is teaching and who spend a portion of their time providing academic advising services to students. Nominees must spend at least 50% of their time on teaching or research and have at least 3 years (calendar years) of experience.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE APRIL 18, 2023

Eligibility:

Any individual currently serving as an academic advisor or faculty academic advisor and employed by a regionally accredited post-secondary institution may be nominated. NACADA membership is not required.
Nominees must have a minimum of three years (36 months) of professional experience based on the calendar year calculated from the time the nomination is due.
Current members of the Board of Directors and Council are not eligible for consideration for this award. After the member’s term of office is over, s/he may then be eligible for consideration.
Previous Global Outstanding Advising in the Primary Category Award winners are not eligible.
Previous Certificate of Merit recipients may be considered for Outstanding Advising Awards if a minimum of five years has passed since receiving the merit award.
Only one nominee per category from each institution will be considered.
Previous Regional award winners are eligible to apply for Global Awards, though the application cannot simply be duplicated, rather it must address the Global Award specifically.

Criteria & Scoring:

The Selection Committee evaluates on the evidence of qualities and practices that distinguish the nominee as an outstanding academic advisor or faculty advisor including:

Strong interpersonal skills
Availability to advisees, faculty, or staff
Frequency of contact with advisees
Appropriate referral activity
Use and dissemination of appropriate info sources
Evidence of student success rate, by advisor or department
Caring, helpful attitude towards advisees, faculty, and staff
Meeting advisees in informal settings
Monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals

Mastery of institutional regulations, policies, and procedures
Ability to engage in, promote and support developmental advising
Evidence of advising in an academic advising program that supports NACADA’s core values
Evidence that the advising program reflects the standards of good practice in the CAS Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising:
Participation in and support of advisor development programs
Perception by colleagues of nominee’s advising skills
Institutional recognition of nominee for outstanding advising
Participation in and support of intrusive advising to build strong relationships with advisees

Rubric for Outstanding Advising in the Primary Category

Rubric for Outstanding Advising in the Faculty Category

Nominations must contain adequate factual or narrative material that describes the extent to which an individual meets the awards criteria. Include the following items in the order listed below and use objective data to support the nomination.

A completed Nomination Submission.
Two separate PDF files as outlined below.

File # 1 includes:

A Summary of the Nominee’s Qualifications- In this key piece, the nominator should summarize the extent to which the nominee meets the award criteria, citing letters of support, data, or other materials illustrative of exemplary performance as an advisor. How does this nominee consistently go beyond expected job duties to provide outstanding advising?
Nominee Resume or Curriculum Vitae- Please limit entries to material that pertains directly to academic advising, presenting relevant information from the nominees overall resume/vitae. Please include a current position description with a list of job responsibilities and the percentages of time spent in each area of responsibility.
A personal statement that includes the nominee's advising philosophy.
- Resources on creating your advising philosophy

File #2 includes all appendices to support the nominator’s recommendation:

Representative materials developed by the nominee such as articles published, resources and tip sheets created for students, training materials for faculty/staff, presentations given, etc. These materials should show how the nominee has gone above and beyond regular advising job duties to meet a level of outstanding work.
At least 3 letters of support from advisees, colleagues, and administrators. Letters of support or additional materials sent separate from the nomination packet will not be considered.
Other pertinent information from nominator.

Appendices are limited to a maximum of 40 pages. The online system will allow you to submit more than one attachment for the appendices but the total number of pages if printed should be no more than 40.

*Nominations must include only original documentation prepared specifically for the NACADA Global Awards Program. Materials intended for other award programs will not be considered.