As institutions today focus on programs that support and enhance the academic success and persistence to graduation of their students, it becomes even more imperative that we evaluate and assess our academic advising programs in order to ensure that students are receiving the highest quality academic advising learning experiences possible. Conducting a self-study or self-assessment of your program and making revisions or changes in your processes, procedures, professional development, and student experiences is essential, especially in this time of financial crisis on campuses as we must clearly be able to demonstrate the quality of our work with students.

The National Academic Advising Association Board of Directors endorses three documents that champion the educational role of academic advising in a diverse world and should be used by campuses to conduct their own self-study of their programs. The three documents are:

Concept of Academic Advising
Statement of Core Values
Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS): Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising
This Webinar will provide an overview of these documents and key strategies and practical suggestions for utilizing them to make significant changes in your programs as well as to assess the overall effectiveness of the academic advising experiences on your campus.

Key Points
The structure and use of the CAS Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising
The use of the NACADA Core Values in Assessment
The value of the NACADA Concept of Academic Advising in the Assessment Process
Participants will:
understand the components of the CAS Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising and learn the basic approach to using the Standards and Guidelines in the Self Assessment Process promoted by CAS,
understand the place of the NACADA Core Values in an advising professional development,
understand how to disseminate the NACADA Concept of Academic Advising as the foundation for the academic advising profession, and
gain strategies to utilizing these documents to conduct a self-study on your campus.

For more information, see http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Webinars/W28.htm.

This webinar is free for any staff in student services or advising roles.

Information on how to register will be available about one month before the event.