NACADA NATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISING ASSOCIATION Annual Conference - October 2011 Denver, CO

About NACADA…  51 topic tracks  324 concurrent sessions  46 vendor and interest group meetings  38 poster sessions ….all at 5280 feet!

Sessions Overview: Cornelia Denvir  The Power of Academic Words – Reframing “Required”  Setting the tome for the session and student’s overall experience  Discussing remedial course placement  Defining “general education” or “core requirements”  High School to College Advising  Partnerships in advising and curriculum  Create interactions in the high school: class speakers, Collegian  Early placement testing for 11 th grade students  Comprehensive Transfer Advising  Separate Orientations for Transfer students  Transfer learning communities, portal channel

Key Points:Cornelia Denvir  Advisement training is critical to student and institutional success  Special populations – developmental students, veterans  Opportunities for faculty to work with high schools  Identify and script out difficult conversations

Next Steps  Consider a task force of professional development for advising  Establish expectations for students and advisors  Integrate advising into all aspects of the student experience

Sessions Overview: Wendy McCorry  Pre-conference workshop: Assessing Academic Advising  Fostering change in advisement  Increasing the use of technology  Increasing autonomy and responsibility of students  Increasing number of developmental students  Advisement as teaching  Probation Students  Data driven advisement  Identify training topics  Resource allocation  What’s working?

Key Points: Wendy McCorry  Celebrate our successes  Create clear student learning outcomes for advisement  Acknowledge the key role of advising in retention  Implement a professional development plan for advisors

Next Steps  Student Success Committee to develop assessment plan for advisement  Clarify the mission  Identify the goals  Create tactical objectives  Select data measures  Design a feedback/process loop for data benchmarking

Definition of Advisement  “Academic advising goes beyond schedule making and securing signatures on appropriate forms. Effective academic advisement helps the student identify, clarify and plan for educational and career goals, with ongoing communication between advisor and student on the progress made toward those goals. Academic advising encompasses planning for internships and employment opportunities within the discipline and providing guidance on transfer possibilities. Effective advisement requires referrals to the wide array of academic support, personal counseling, financial aid and administrative resources to help the student achieve success throughout their experiences at the College.”

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