NACADA Webinar Archives 2006-07 Descriptions

These webinars are available via the academic advising Blackboard community or can be checked out for viewing.

NACADA Webinar Archives
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/webinars/onDisk.htm

DW01CD - "Advising as Teaching"
Broadcast September 26, 2006
In this first NACADA-sponsored Webinar presentation, NACADA Past President Nancy King (Kennesaw State University) described academic advising as a teaching and learning process that includes a curriculum, pedagogy, and learning outcomes.

DW02CD - "Academic Advising Syllabus: Advising As Teaching in Action"
Broadcast December 12, 2006
In this Webinar broadcast, Karen Thurmond (University of Memphis) and Charlie Nutt (NACADA Associate Director) considered the "common language" that students, faculty, advisors, and administrators need to understand if we are to clearly define outcomes, expectations, and assessment of learning for academic advising. They discussed how academic advisors can communicate to students the purpose and value of academic advising, the student outcomes for advising, and student and advisor responsibilities. 

DW03CD - "Components of a Successful Faculty Advising Program: Institutional Commitment, Professional Development, Incentives, and Recognition"
Broadcast February 22, 2007
Most colleges and universities around the country understand that Faculty Advisors are absolutely critical to the health and well being of advising programs, and so faculty advising responsibilities are deeply embedded in the institutional mission. Yet surprisingly little is being done systemically to encourage quality faculty advising, to craft faculty advisor development programs, and to recognize and offer incentives for excellence in advising. In this NACADA-sponsored Webinar presentation, Jayne Drake (Temple University) addressed the need for broad institutional commitment to faculty advising from key stakeholders; the importance of clearly articulated mission, process, and goal statements; the components of a successful faculty advisor development program; and the incentives and "rewards" important in acknowledging and promoting excellence in advising.  REGISTER HERE

DW04CD - "Student Learning Outcomes: Evidence of the Teaching and Learning Components of Academic Advising"
Broadcast April 4, 2007
Historically, academic advising has moved from a clerical activity to a student-centered activity to the present recognition of academic advising as an integral learning experience of the college community and culture. However, until college campuses move away from only program or delivery outcomes that primarily focus on the behaviors of those planning and delivering the advising experiences and begin to carefully develop, teach and measure student learning outcomes for academic advising, advising will continue to be on the "edge" of the learning mission of the college campus. In this Webinar broadcast, Tomarra Adams provided a foundation for the development of student learning outcomes as well as hands-on strategies for teaching these outcomes, activities and experiences for students, and strategies for measuring the outcomes. Register here.

DW05CD - "Expanding Your Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing and Demonstrating Cultural Competence in Academic Advising"
Broadcast June 12, 2007
As noted by Grewe (June 2007, Academic Advising Today), "Recent statistical trends project that ethnic minorities will become a numerical majority in the United States by the year 2010. The impact of this growth is pervasive and is evident in the current generation of students who are starting to matriculate through collegiate programs, as they are the most racially and ethnically diverse in this nation's history. For those involved with student development at the postsecondary level, this indicates a need to adapt current policies and practices to better meet the unique needs of our students. As academic advisors who are charged with facilitating students toward the development of their total potential, this means the development of new skills and strategies in order to provide more effective advising services." Register Here for the January 17, 2008 2:00-3:30 p.m. re-broadcast, location TBA.