NACADA President Kyle Ross outlines pathways to involvement in the association.
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As long as there is hope, there is a chance for change. Change means growth, which means we blossom into better versions of ourselves.
It is no secret the work of an academic advisor can be stressful. With large caseloads, changing policies and demands from upper administration, and the wide varieties of emotions students bring to our office, it often can be overwhelming—and the field acknowledges this fact.
In creating space for students, advisors and educators can thoughtfully reconstruct the ways in which inclusive practices are utilized while working with students, specifically those who identify in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Perhaps the best advice for the future of advising is simple: practice being more human through listening, showing empathy, and compassion.
Meeting students on their level via social media usage has helped the authors become more holistic in their advising approach.
The merit, purpose, and logistics of fulfilling general education requirements is a salient advising topic in conversations with students across a variety of undergraduate colleges and universities. A tailored approach is needed to meet the unique needs and interests of each individual student as they consider the many general education choices available to them.
Advising in the liberal arts needs to make a fundamental shift in the definition of advising towards a model of integrating career and academic advising and changing what advising is for student success.
A personal advising philosophy should be sufficiently structured to give a framework to the advising process, but fluid enough to allow encounters with new scenarios, new students, and new academic and curricular developments. It should be nimble enough to respond to the ever-changing world of higher education in an ever-changing world.
Students from first-generation, specialized populations, and first year limited income (FLI) communities who gain access to higher education, must be supported by advisors with robust resources incorporating advising theory and framework to help students build a trajectory of new life opportunities.
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Executive Director Melinda Anderson finds her first year in the position exciting, thrilling, exhausting, and full of surprises.
The Relating-Understanding-Changing (RUC) Helping Model provides a framework emphasizing the importance of the relationship between the student and advisor.
Supporting transfer students must be a commitment across higher education. One means of prioritizing transfer students is fostering a transfer receptive culture.
Mid-career adults entering or re-entering higher education face an exciting, confusing, and sometimes humbling experience. The transition to college life and expectations can be especially challenging to non-traditional students when institutional expectations seem rigid. The author offers 10 tips from research and practice to support adult students who make the tough transition to a less-flexible undergrad program.
For advisors wanting to better prepare themselves to support students experiencing Imposter Syndrome, this article will provide information and practical insights that will help guide and educate students toward healthier mindsets.
Learning to recognize and identify Imposter Syndrome in advising appointments is key to understanding how, when, and why some students fall prey to its influences.
Challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, although forcing some abrupt changes, have also provided some unique opportunities to re-evaluate accessibility of advising within the institution.
The author shares insights gained during the coronavirus pandemic and thoughtful ways those may be carried forward.
Originals renounce default ideas and concepts in favor of exploring if better alternatives exist. For advisors, this means more than simply thinking outside the box.
The author shares lessons learned from an experience with improvisation.
As advisors begin another academic year, I find myself wondering where the time has gone between when I started my presidency last October and now. While the time has flown by, I acknowledge that the association has accomplished much in these 11 months.
NACADA is here to support and guide you on your professional journey.
Strengths-based advising offers an opportunity to minimize bias and maximize inclusivity while recognizing the resilience and often overlooked talents of underrepresented students.
Encouraging and advocating for faculty to highlight their advising work may help normalize the inclusion of advising efforts in tenure and promotion materials.
The science on sleep is clear: poor sleep decreases mental capacity and compromises mental and physical health. In order for students to learn, and for any individual to thrive and enjoy clear mental focus, robust productivity and motivation, and general wellbeing, sufficient high-quality sleep is of paramount importance.
Advisors play a key role in the success of student veterans as they transition to higher education. It is imperative that advisors comprehend the strengths of student veterans and the barriers they may face in higher education.
COVID shutdowns affected Gen Zers especially hard, with things like dating, making and sustaining friendships, and learning more difficult than in the past. Colleges and universities need to help Gen Z students assimilate back into campus life following the loss of a year or more of an important stage of psychosocial and academic development.
As the field of academic advising evolves, it is an appropriate time to consider the future of the field. Utilizing student opinions, instructional design perspectives, current emerging trend lists, and academic advising theory, this article attempts to bring attention to four trends that can steer or influence the field as a whole in the next five to ten years.
Integrated advising approaches can empower advisors to uniquely adapt to individual student needs. Advisors can intentionally combine different advising approaches to achieve an individualized advising practice for each student they work with.
One belief has always been central to the author’s work in higher education: students need to be empowered to take control of their educational experience. Transformational advising inspires students to innovate and create in ways to help them grow and shape their future success.
With the sheer number of duties that academic advisors face, it is a challenge to consistently preserve fundamental elements of communication. Nudges are powerful tools that, if designed correctly, can motivate students via encouraging, informing, or preventing.
There is a lot of time and energy that goes into creating spaces for difficult conversations. The payoff is realized when students can come in, be recognized for their identities, feel a sense of belonging, then go on to graduate.
There are many meanings to the term leadership and what it entails for higher education professionals. The authors discuss key components of strong leadership that can help academic advisors lead from their position on campus.
With fifteen years of successful leadership development now behind us, we are excited to recognize the many members of the NACADA Emerging Leaders Program classes who have served the association in a myriad of ways.
For those members reading this, if you are considering getting more involved in NACADA, you will never regret that decision. NACADA and the profession need your ideas, enthusiasm, and commitment to student success now more than ever.
Autonomy helps students meet the demands of higher education and fosters psychological well-being and a sense of meaning. Academic advisors can best appreciate the role of autonomy in students’ lives and their responsibility in fostering it when they recognise how personal connections can provide students with the psychosocial resources they need to become autonomous learners.
Several years into the pandemic, academic advising work has entered a new phase of utilizing virtual meetings and other online platforms to communicate with students while maintaining a work-life balance for advisors. To address this emergent issue, tenets of the humanized advising approach can (re)focus online advising on caring for each student’s wellbeing to sustain their motivation to persist in college.
The ability to be academically successful and persist in a college setting is multifaceted, and students are frequently subjected to multiple risk factors. In recent years, learning analytics and early alert platforms have become more prevalent, thus enabling campuses to proactively and intrusively offer support to students who are indicated by data as being at-risk of failing or dropping out. By considering these themes, advisors can begin to gain a better understanding of the challenges At-Risk First Year Students may encounter.
It is important to understand that some level of parental involvement is part of most college students’ experiences—and that this involvement can be positive.
How can we limit our student learning outcomes to what we (truly) want students to know, do, and value, while acknowledging that there are also less important behaviors and knowledge essential to get them through the wickets of their education? What would our structures look like if we designed them so that retaining students—and student success, in general—was the default?
The author considers how to spark critical examination and discussion of how to promote student-centeredness at times when self-centeredness often prevails.
The author describes the Adventures of Advising Podcast and how it has built community in academic advising.
The author shares experiences and advice from her doctoral journey in the hopes that it may help others, particularly those in the field of higher education student success.
The authors share some of their experiences, perspectives, and the impact of the NACADA Emerging Leaders Program (ELP).
