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Articles

As I worked as an advisor and as I studied for various classes in the Masters in Academic Advising program at Kansas State University I discovered that I had some ideas I wanted to communicate. Here are three articles I have written for the National Academic Advising Association. 

My first article in the NACADA newsletter, Academic Advising Today, Are Academic Advisors Knowledge Workers? Yes!, described how I saw academic advisors as Knowledge Workers. Advisors have an almost infinite amount of information to know and be aware of to successfully serve their students. An advisor’s job is all about the gathering, sorting, understanding, and communicating their knowledge to students. Knowledge workers in most industries are highly valued and highly paid, and yet academic advisors were not seen in that light. I hoped that identifying academic advisors as Knowledge Workers had the possibility of improving the standing of academic advisors in the college environment.

My second article in Academic Advising Today, Freedom to Choose: Advisor Classifications and Internal Identities, describes how academic advisors can be assigned to one of four classifications based on their actions as an advisor. It is not enough to declare yourself a professional, you have to do the things that all professionals do in their field. By examining what advisors do they could be assigned to one of four classifications:
  • advising practitioner,
  • emerging professional,
  • advising professional, or
  • advising scholar
My third article was published in NACADA’s Clearinghouse, Creating a Personal Philosophy of Academic Advising. This is an instructional piece encouraging academic advisors to create a written personal philosophy of academic advising, with step-by-step instructions on how to create one.

In addition to those articles I was also one of 11 pre-publication reviewers from around the country providing detailed feedback on a new monograph on Advising Approaches that will be published by Jossey-Bass and the National Academic Advising Association in 2013.
“Developmental counseling or advising is concerned not only with a specific personal or vocational decision but also with facilitating the student's rational processes, environmental and interpersonal interactions, behavioral awareness, and problem-solving, decision-making, and evaluation skills.” – Crookston, 1972

“Academic advising is the only structured service on the campus in which all students have the opportunity for on-going, one-to-one contact with a concerned representative of the institution.” - W. R. Hably
NACADA 
The National Academic Advising Association 
NACADA Clearinghouse 
A useful list of Advising topics from NACADA 
The Mentor 
A scholarly publication about academic advising in higher education