PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: NACADA Events Next Week
Monday, April 12
Advising Administration Community | Advocates for Academic Advising: Voices of Senior Administrators | 2 p.m. central | To register, click here.
Featuring three senior administrators for this panel discussion focusing on how mid-level administrators can serve as effective advocates for academic advising to senior administrators. Panelists will discuss how they have served as advocates for academic advising on their campuses, and what information they use to make decisions regarding academic advising (and advisors) at their institutions.
Wednesday, April 14
Region 6 | Region Six Talks: Inclusive Advising 101 | noon-1 p.m. central | To access the link, NACADA members need to be signed in and click here.
Inclusive Advising in higher education refers to the ways in which advising practice, accessibility, cultural self-awareness, and personal values of advisors may differ from those that we are serving and may cause blind spots when we are interacting with students, delivering information, providing support, and making judgements about those that we serve- whether conscious or unconsciously.
In considering our practices, Inclusive Advising asks of advisors to be intentional in the ways that we engage in our advising practice, treat the advising appointment as a learning space, and to be intentional about accessibility for all students regardless of their cultural, language, degree of ability, religion, nationality, and other identities that may differ from the advisor. It is this difference that strengthens the partnership between advisor and student as they work toward resolutions and creating programming for students.
Region 8 | R8 Talks! | Returning to Campus | 1:30-2:30 p.m. central | To register for this event, click here.
We’ll be returning to work soon, if we haven’t already. After a full 12 months of dealing with loneliness, isolation, burnout, and not nearly as many workplace snacks, the discussions have finally started: our WFH life is drawing to a close.
While this year brought challenges, it also brought changes to our commute time, our work attire, and the amount of stimulation we receive Monday-Friday. It is normal and healthy to have mixed feelings about returning to the office. For some, it might mean excitement: morning catch-ups with colleagues and not asking ‘can you hear me?’ to begin every meeting. For others, it might mean overwhelm; eight hours or more around lots of other humans, five days a week, when you’ve gotten pretty used to sharing lunch with the cat. For most, it will be a combination of the two.
Join our facilitated discussion and share where you’re at on the excited-to-anxious work-from-work spectrum, and hear how others are feeling, too.
R8 Talks! is a monthly, community-building opportunity for Region 8.
Thursday, April 15
Canadian Advising Community | Canadian Advising Community Discussion | 1 p.m. central | To register for this event, click here.
As we prepare to return to campuses – what are learnings you’ve had this year you’ll take back with you? Join Alli Scully, McMaster University; Brady Zapalski, CACCUS Rep - Georgian College; Sarah Kinch, CACUSS Rep; and Shea Ellingham, Mount Royal University, for a facilitated discussion.
Social Justice Advising Community | Monthly Coffee Chats | 1 p.m. central | To register for this event, click here.
Join Ariel Collatz, UC Davis; Kelly J. Medley, University of Florida; John Sauter, Niagara University; and Callie Hutchens, Appalachian State University, for this monthly coffee chat.
Friday, April 16
First-Year Students Advising Community | Casual Conversations Chat and Chew | Erin Sanders, Northern Kentucky University and Darryl Cherry, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville | noon central | To register for this event, click here.
The Casual Conversations are opportunities for NACADA members in the Advising First-Year Students to informally share ideas and support each other in our advising roles.