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Advising administration
Advising as a profession
Advising strategies and techniques
Advising theory and models
Case studies
General
Special populations
Student development
Technology in advising
Advising administration
Articles
Academic adviser shortages: An on-line study
Answering the fundamental questions of organizational existence: Developing, implementing, and communicating effective mission statements and goals to guide advising programs or centers
Appreciative interviewing: A tool for hiring academic advisers
The benefits of establishing a student/alumni mentoring program
Beyond student satisfaction surveys: Designing a student focus group to assess academic advising
Bridging the gap between training and performance through adviser training and development
Closing the gap between academic advising and career counseling
Collaborate! The importance of teamwork between academic advisers and orientation leaders
Continuing the connection: Does academic advising impact . . . alumni and donors?
Creating an academic advising training program on your campus
Creating an online advising manual for reference, training, and . . . development
Developing partnerships between faculty and professional advisers
Eight steps for organizing a majors fair
Enhancing academic advising with a monthly newsletter
Evaluating a small college's academic advising program
The importance of faculty adviser training programs
The importance of values and values management in advising administration and leadership
Improving advising through a customer service initiative
Initiating the assessment process in an academic advising unit
Leaping toward success: A study of three cohorts in the Mannie L. Jackson Illinois Academic Enrichment and Leadership Program (I-LEAP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“PAT on the Back”: Developing and implementing a peer advising team
Predicting student satisfaction with academic advising
Steps for prioritizing academic advising: A small-school case study
Student engagement specialists: Reimagining the role of peer advisers
There, but for the grace of God, go we
Transforming an advising office using Total Quality Management techniques
Utilizing integrated marketing communications with the Academic Centers for Excellence
A view toward the position of director of academic advising: A personal plan of action
Forum topics
Are large advising rosters unethical?
How can advising administrators “connect” with faculty?
How many advisees are too many?
How should advising be assessed?
Should advising be mandatory?
Should students be matched with advisers who are like them?
What's the best way to train new advisers?
Who should advise juniors and seniors?
Why are we seeing an increase in professional advisers in academic departments?
Advising as a profession
Articles
Academic adviser shortages: An on-line study
Academic advising and Big Brothers Big Sisters: A brand new way of thinking
Advisers beware: The political exploitation of interns in times of war
Advisers teach students to become mobile
Advising: A personal statement
Advising and teaching: Synergistic praxis for student and faculty development
Appreciative Advisers: Be advised
Are advisers risking lawsuits for misadvising students?
Career development, the undergraduate, and the academic adviser
The challenge for academic advisers: We are instructors, not administrators
Challenges encountered by new advisers: Honest answers, practical solutions
Closing the gap between academic advising and career counseling
Confessions of a Ph.D. student: The internship
Creating a student-centered learning community
Describe a relationship in which you were mentored by another academic adviser
. . .
Describe a situation in which your advice to a student did not turn out well and tell what you learned from it
Describe your relationship with an advisee that best illustrates your philosophy of advising
Developmental academic advising in higher education: The class
Excerpts from the journal's writing competition
The hope business: Academic advising
How do you know that you have made a difference in the education of your advisees?
(S. Estes)
How do you know that you have made a difference in the education of your advisees?
(C. Kimmel)
How do you use your discipline(s) in your advising?
(E. Boretz)
How do you use your discipline(s) in your advising?
(A. Stalzer)
How is academic advising different from teaching . . . and counseling?
Human relations of academic advising: It's about the students
The impact of Disney on advising
On mentors and janitors: Toward a classical definition of advising
A new adviser's journal
Preparing doctoral students for their future roles as academic advisers
A prologue to defining academic advising
Renewing yourself from an advising slump
The role of advisers and academic support specialists on the urban campus
The shifting sands of advising
Strategic thinking can help advisers overcome identity crisis
The teaching-advising connection
Vocational insights into academic advising
What do you think academic advising will be like in another ten years?
What is ethical behavior for an academic adviser?
When the professor is a spiritual guide
Forum topics
Are there generation gaps in academic advising?
Are you concerned about being sued for misadvising?
Are you a “helicopter adviser”?
Can academic advising truly be part of the promotion and tenure process?
Can students and advisers be friends?
Do professional academic advisers need college degrees?
Do professional advisers need a union?
Do you have a personal/professional mission statement?
Do you really treat all students equally?
How can advisers “connect” with faculty?
How do I learn about disciplines and courses other than my own?
How do you define who an adviser is?
How do you know you're doing a good job of advising?
How do you make ethical decisions?
How do you use your discipline in advising?
How does someone prepare to become a professional academic adviser?
How much advising is too much?
How would you describe academic advising to an advisee, a person interested in becoming an adviser, and a friend?
If students are our “customers,” then why don't we just give them what they want?
Is academic advising a “service”?
Is academic advising underfunded?
Is advising a profession?
Is it acceptable for advisers to fraternize with advisees?
Is it appropriate to accept gifts from advisees and/or their parents?
Is it appropriate for advisers to advise acquaintances?
Is it appropriate to share personal information with advisees?
Is it unethical to recommend specific courses or instructors?
Should an adviser be able to “fire” an advisee?
Should an adviser ever advise a student
against
choosing a particular major?
Should advisers avoid all physical contact with their advisees?
Should advisers be given bonuses based on student evaluations?
Should advisers be more professional?
Should advisers be required to do research?
Should advisers bribe their advisees?
Should advisers get “report cards”?
Should advisers keep their offices free of all potentially offensive material?
Should advisers teach first-year seminars for their advisees?
Should professional academic advisers be licensed?
Should we grant tenure to professional academic advisers?
What are the pros and cons of being an academic adviser?
What do experienced advisers know about advising that new advisers might not?
What is the adviser's role in explaining general education?
What is the adviser's role/responsibility in resolving errors?
What is the role of spirituality in advising?
What is the value of academic advising?
What New Year's advising resolutions have you made?
What role do your personal values play in your advising?
What role should advisers play in helping students develop a meaningful philosophy of life?
What role should advisers play in recruiting new students?
What role should advisers play in regard to academic honesty/integrity?
What's the difference between academic advising and career counseling?
Why are men underrepresented in academic advising?
Advising strategies and techniques
Articles
Academic advisers: Getting in touch with your study abroad side
Academic advisers as transformational leaders
The academic adviser's role in encouraging and supporting student involvement
Academic hope: Its uses and implications for academic advisers
The adviser as a caring expert: Theory and practice
Advising adult students: Connecting Schlossberg's Transition Theory to the Appreciative Advising model
Advising honors students within the Appreciative Advising framework
Advising the involved student
Advising maxims revisited
Advising and spirituality: Resources for academic professionals
Advising strategies: What academic advisers can learn from Sun Tzu
An advising syllabus: A tool to increase advising effectiveness
All advisees are culturally diverse: Are unequal procedures fairer?
Appreciative Advising and first-generation college students
Appreciative Advising: How the Academic Centers for Excellence at the University of South Carolina are using this breakthrough concept
Appreciative Advising as a means of increasing the number of males in higher education
Appreciative Advising and the nontraditional student
Before, during, and after: How an adviser can enhance a student's internship experience
Career advising: What academic advisers need to know
Career development, the undergraduate, and the academic adviser
A case management approach to academic advising
Challenges encountered by new advisers: Honest answers, practical solutions
Cognition and advising
Counseling skills for academic advisers
Creating reflection on international experiences through appreciative advising
Creating a tool to help your advisees become engaged on your campus
A cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration in advising community college student interns
Disarm: The art of first impressions
Disarming the armed: Appreciatively advising unhappy students
Don't forget the details: A call for balance in academic advising
Down the rabbit hole, up the Mississippi: Using literature in group advising settings
Engaging students in the academic advising process
Expanding the prescriptive-developmental advising continuum: Using social constructivism as an advising approach for students from high relational groups
From non-helicopter parent to appropriate support system: Appreciative Advising strategies for empowering parents of low-income, first-generation college students
Help! Do I have to advise college students, too?
How to effectively use Appreciative Advising with students who are ineligible to continue the pre-nursing program
How eight institutions have incorporated Appreciative Advising
How to encourage students of color to pursue careers in student affairs administration.
The importance of paying attention: Ten points to empower our students
Improving academic advising with assessment and a standardized form
Incorporating active-learning strategies in academic advising
Incorporating Appreciative Inquiry into academic advising
Knowing the facts about financial aid
Leading by example
“Let's go fishing”: Embracing students in academic advising
Managing the advising relationship: Three common-sense tips for advising college students
Mandatory academic advising: Pros, cons, and recommendations
Master's students, Appreciative Advising, and the transition
Mentoring undergraduates in their research proposal writing: EFL students in Taiwan
Narrative and the art of advising
Online advising through Virtual Interest Groups
Preparing for the first advising contact
Reaching beyond academics in academic advising
Reflections on my peer advising career
The role of advising in undergraduate research
Stress and the first-year student: An adviser's role during tough times
Student engagement and academic advising
Student motivation: How much can we really do?
Tackling academic eligibility requirements for student-athletes during the first year
Two's company, three's a crowd: Can group advising be appreciative and effective?
The use of self-disclosure in academic advising
Using Appreciative Advising with international students
Using Appreciative Advising to optimize interactions with Third Culture Kids
Using Appreciative Inquiry in advising at-risk students: Moving from challenge to success
Using desktop videoconferencing to promote collaboration and graduate student success: A virtual advising system
Utilizing parents as a resource: The use of Appreciative Inquiry in academic advising
Visualization in advising
What can academic advisers learn from Alcoholics Anonymous?
What can and should we do with e-mail? An outline for a systematic approach
When students get bad news: How understanding the grieving process can help
Work questions: Productively talking with students about their jobs
Forum topics
Can students and advisers be friends?
How do I learn about disciplines and courses other than my own?
How do you advise reluctant students?
How do you advise students about changing their plans?
How do you advise students online?
How do you avoid adviser burnout?
How do you help your advisees make decisions?
How do you motivate your advisees?
How do you plan to improve your advising?
How much advising is too much?
Should advising be mandatory?
What is the role of humor in advising?
What is the role of spirituality in advising?
What questions do you ask? What stories do you tell?
What should and should not be included in advising notes?
Advising theory and models
Articles
Academic advising and the “logic” of the curriculum
The Accelerated Study in Associate Programs: A successful academic advising model
The adviser as a caring expert: Theory and practice
Advising adult students: Connecting Schlossberg's Transition Theory to the Appreciative Advising model
An alternative to the developmental theory of advising
Applying O'Banion's model to study abroad advising
Arguments against applying a customer-service paradigm
Career advising: What academic advisers need to know
A case management approach to academic advising
Decision-making theory: Implications for academic advising
Developmental academic advising in higher education: The class
Developmental academic advising and learner-centered education
Developmental advising: A practical view
Developmental advising in the Sultanate of Oman
Ethics in academic advising
Ethics in academic advising revisited: An alternative response to Church and Robinson
Expanding the prescriptive-developmental advising continuum: Using social constructivism as an advising approach for students from high relational groups
Integrative theory of academic advising: A proposition
The meaning of “student-centered” advising
A prologue to defining academic advising
A Rogerian approach to academic advising: Building common ground between advisers and students when conflict exists
Sustainable advising: Applying the tenets of sustainability to academic advising
What would a unified theory of academic advising require?
Forum topics
If prescriptive advising is so bad, why do advisers use it so much?
Is more research needed in advising?
Why do we need theories of advising?
Case studies
Forum topics
Case study #1: What should you do about this letter from a troubled student?
Case study #2: How would you help this student who's ready to give up?
Case study #3: How would you help this student . . . against a department head?
Case study #4: He said/she said/you said?
Case study #5: What do you do about Barry?
Case study #6: Students' rights, parents' needs, and advisers' reputations
Case study #7: Who's fooling whom?
Case study #8: Assisting students or assisting retention?
Case study #9: Who gets the extra semester?
Case study #10: A case of sexual misconduct?
Case study #11: A secret advising error
Case study #12: An unprofessional, though not unethical, request
Case study #13: A case of academic dishonesty discovered
Case study #14: The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the dad
Case study #15: The case of the quiet salesman
Case study #16: The case of the pricey liberal arts degree
Case study #17: A case of family dynamics
Case study #18: A case of what's fair and what's not
Case study #19: Judging a Facebook by its cover
Case study #20: Drink, drank, not drunk
Case study #21: A case of Mrs. identification
Case study #22: A lifting encounter
Case study #23: A surprise visit
Case study #24: Whose report is it anyway?
Case study #25: The prodigal son
General
Articles
Academic advising and live theatre: An effective collaboration
The advent of academic advising in America at the Johns Hopkins University
A chronology of academic advising in America
A chronology of academic advising in America
(revised)
The college environment: Factors influencing student transition and their impact on academic advising
Creating a student-centered learning community
The curriculum of academic advising: What we teach, how we teach, and what students learn
(conference proceedings)
Describe your most memorable advisee and tell what you learned from him/her and how it affected you.
Eight steps for organizing a majors fair
Enhancing academic advising with a monthly newsletter
Grant support for graduate and undergraduate students who perform research
Happy anniversary!
Hitting and missing the jackpot: The NACADA 2005 national conference
The Mentor:
Ten years later
The NACADA Region 9 conference: A participant's perspective
People who soar
The power of words: A guide to the latest terminology in student affairs
Reflections of a first-time adviser
The significance of the adviser-advisee relationship: A student's perspective
Students' civil rights
Students grade their professors: An evaluation of a college's faculty advising by its graduating seniors
Underage drinking: Challenges to academic advising and performance
What counts as research, teaching, and scholarship? A commentary
What message is your office space conveying to students?
What Virginia Tech showed: Are we missing part of our mission?
Forum topics
Are faculty abdicating their advising responsibilities?
Can undergraduate students really be “peer advisers?”
Do all students need advisers?
How are this year's first-year students different from students five to ten years ago?
How do you react to professor-rating Web sites?
How will advising change in the new millenium?
How will the downturn in the economy affect students' academic choices?
Is it appropriate for advisers to participate in social networking Web sites?
Isn't the value of a liberal arts education overrated?
What books have made an impact on the way you advise?
What impact do you think the recent terrorism will have on students?
What impact would a sudden influx of new students have on higher education?
What is the relationship between advising and retention?
What should and should not be included in advising notes?
What's your favorite quote about advice or advising?
Why do students change majors?
Special populations
Articles
Academic advisers as a resource for middle school college preparation programs
Academic advisers supporting students affected by relationship violence
Academic advising and academic support services at urban campuses: An introduction
Academic advising needs of high-achieving Black collegians at predominantly White institutions: A mixed methods investigation
Addressing the distinctive needs of Guaranteed Entrance to Medical School (GEMS) students
The adult road atlas: A plan for adult learners
Advisers beware: The political exploitation of interns in times of war
Advising across cultures
Advising adult students: Connecting Schlossberg's Transition Theory to the Appreciative Advising model
Advising the college student-athlete: Issues and strategies
Advising collegiate athletes toward careers in collegiate coaching
Advising in context: Providing support for students receiving state lottery-funded scholarships
Advising the first-generation college student
Advising first-generation college students for continued success
Advising graduate students: Understanding the influence of family on graduate education
Advising honors students within the Appreciative Advising framework
Advising information for student breadwinners
Advising the single-parent college student
Advising a special population: Commuter students at Ohio University
Advising students on academic probation
Advising students interested in medical school: What is the best approach?
Advising undecided students: What works best?
Advising visual arts students: Realities and considerations
Advising working adults at the graduate level: Diversity from pre- to post-graduation
Applying O'Banion's model to study abroad advising
Appreciative Advising and first-generation college students
Appreciative Advising as a means of increasing the number of males in higher education
Appreciative Advising and the nontraditional student
Basic immigration regulations for F-1 international students in the United States: A guide for academic advisers
Before, during, and after: How an adviser can enhance a student's internship experience
Board of Trustees Program – A commitment to adult education
Breaking it down: Performing academic advising across the color line
Building bridges: Working with advisers to improve university transfer programs
Career support after study abroad: Resources for advisers
A collaboration model for academic advisers who work with student-athletes, especially those with addictive behaviors
A cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration in advising community college student interns
Dead ends versus new beginnings: Making a case for alumni career development opportunities
Developmental advising in the Sultanate of Oman
Don't give up on academically dismissed students
Emerging and persistent issues for first-year students
Expanding the prescriptive-developmental advising continuum: Using social constructivism as an advising approach for students from high relational groups
Finding the right balance in advising the NCAA Division III student-athlete
The fine arts tug-of-war
First-generation college students: Their challenges and the advising strategies that can help
Former foster youth: Academic advisers as a support system
From non-helicopter parent to appropriate support system: Appreciative Advising strategies for empowering parents of low-income, first-generation college students
Generation 1.5 students: Recognizing an overlooked population
Getting prepared for the underprepared
How to effectively use Appreciative Advising with students who are ineligible to continue the pre-nursing program
The ignored population: Transfer students
The importance of an integrated career and academic advising model for adult students
International students' choices for support groups and communication media
Keeping up with the millennials: Service learning as the latest trend
Leading horses to water: Male reluctance to participate in a peer mentorship program
The life of an adviser of education majors
Mentoring programs for Asian Pacific American students
Mentoring undergraduates in their research proposal writing: EFL students in Taiwan
Military academic advising
Planting the seeds of success: Advising college students with disabilities
Post-graduation advising: Needed more now than ever
A practical approach to advising “swirlers”
Predictors of success in exercise physiology
Reality counseling and the student-athlete mentor
Reflections from both sides of the desk: From probationer to adviser
The significance of the adviser-advisee relationship: A student's perspective
Stereotypes, diversity, and affects on academic advising
Strengthening the position of online academic advisers
Students in financial crisis: How academic advisers can help
Students Taking Academic Responsibility (STAR): A mentoring program for at-risk students
Supporting college students with Asperger syndrome: Possible strategies for academic advisers to use
Switching to a higher gear: Advising adult and traditional students in accelerated learning
Tackling academic eligibility requirements for student-athletes during the first year
Talking with the parents of advisees
Undecided students: What are we doing and what can we do?
University of Illinois Medical Scholars Program
Using Appreciative Advising with international students
Using Appreciative Advising to optimize interactions with Third Culture Kids
Using Appreciative Inquiry in advising at-risk students: Moving from challenge to success
Using desktop videoconferencing to promote collaboration and graduate student success: A virtual advising system
Veterans in college: What advisers should expect
Veterans in higher education: What every adviser may want to know
What transfer students really need to be successful at four-year institutions
Forum topics
Are sophomores our undergraduate orphans?
Are undecided/exploratory students really all that “undecided”?
How do you advise reluctant students?
How do you advise students in crisis?
How do you advise students at a distance?
How do you advise the “younger generation”?
How do handle “helicopter parents”?
Should academic advisers advise high school students?
What is the most important thing that new students should learn about academic advising . . . ?
Student development
Articles
Advising and spirituality: Resources for academic professionals
Advising students on the use of service learning in career development
After graduation
Are students cheating themselves? The role of academic advisers within academic integrity
Benefits of peer advising to peer advisers
Creating economic opportunities through academic advising
Creating shared student responsibility for general education
An essential global learning experience
Figure out what you love and the rest will follow
From contact to community
Global advising: Advising students for a globalized world
The importance of paying attention: Ten points to empower our students
Informing and turning: Two approaches to general education
Keeping up with the millennials: Service learning as the latest trend
Learning and changing: My college experience
Learning and changing: My college experience (Part 2)
Learning and changing: My college experience (Part 3)
Learning and changing: My college experience (Part 4)
Learning and changing: My college experience (Part 5)
Making a major decision
My educational journey: A student perspective
My educational journey: A student perspective (Part 2)
My educational journey: A student perspective (Part 3)
My educational journey: A student perspective (Part 4)
My educational journey: A student perspective (Part 5)
My educational journey: A student perspective (Part 6)
The new “freshman fifteen”
The power of good advice for students
Reflections on my peer advising career
Service learning: The road less traveled by students
Students must lay the groundwork for references
Transition
What is an education?
Forum topics
Do all students need advisers?
Do you think first-year students should be allowed to pledge fraternities?
Should advisers correct their advisees?
Should advisers ever
discourage
students?
Should advising be mandatory?
Should we advise our students not to look for fulfillment in their careers?
What do you think students want from advisers?
What is the most important thing that new students should learn about academic advising . . . ?
Technology in advising
Articles
Creating a virtual advising center: Student services in an online environment
Creating an online advising manual for reference, training, and . . . development
The economics of technology in advisement services
Implementing AdvisorTrac advising center management software on a multi-unit campus
Integrating technology into advisement services
Lessons learned: Implementing advising software at the University of Louisville
Online advising through Virtual Interest Groups
Reaching the masses: E-newsletters and Facebook in advising
Technology in advising: A personal perspective
Technology in higher education academic advisement
Using desktop videoconferencing to promote collaboration and graduate student success: A virtual advising system
The virtual career center: Creating a career center in a virtual classroom
What can and should we do with e-mail? An outline for a systematic approach
Forum topics
Are advisers
too
connected to their students?
Does information technology keep students away from advisers?
How do you advise students online?
How do you react to professor-rating Web sites?
How has e-mail changed the way you do advising?
How is advising affected when paper documents are replaced by the Web?
How is technology affecting academic advising?
What technologies do you use to reach and inform your advisees?
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