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Find your People!!!

Find your People!!!. Please mingle with others and find three or four people who’s institutions and roles are most similar to your own. What is Advising. After you have found your people then please take the next few minutes to list as many words as you can that describe advising:

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Find your People!!!

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  1. Find your People!!! Please mingle with others and find three or four people who’s institutions and roles are most similar to your own

  2. What is Advising • After you have found your people then please take the next few minutes to list as many words as you can that describe advising: • What is academic advising? • Why is academic advising important? • What do you see as your main objective as an academic advisor?

  3. Developing an Advisor Training Program and . . . Clint Moser and Jeff McClellan Director and Former Director, Advisor Training & Development Utah Valley University Taking it to New Heights

  4. Utah Valley University • Located in Orem, UT • Public University • Masters Degree • Bachelor Degrees • Associate Degrees • Diplomas • One-year certificates • 26,272 Students in fall 2008

  5. What type of institution are you from? • Public • Private

  6. What type of Institution continued…. • 2-year • 4-year Comprehensive • Liberal Arts • 4-year Masters • Doctoral

  7. What size is your institution (student head count) • Under 5,000 • 5,001 – 10,000 • 10,001 – 20,000 • 20,001 – 30,000 • Over 30,000

  8. Utah Valley University Advising • Utah Valley University has a collaborative model of academic advisement based on a split model. • This model includes a combination of full-time professional and faculty advisors in the academic schools and a central advising unit consisting of career and academic counseling, advisor training, and academic support services in student affairs.

  9. Current Realities • Briefly write where your institution is at or what you are doing with regards to advising and advisor training.

  10. Where did we come from Program History

  11. Here is our Timeline

  12. Here is our Timeline

  13. Here is our Timeline

  14. Here is our Timeline

  15. Goals / Vision • Clearly state your long-term goal or vision for advising and training at your institution. • Try to use words that will help direct the growth of advising at your institution, but be as concise as possible. J

  16. What is the scope of your desired program? • Institution wide • Departmental • School or college • Combination J

  17. The Team • List key management /players by name. • Include previous accomplishments to show that these are people with a record of success. • Summarize number of years of experience in this field. J

  18. Mapping the Support Network • Information • Connection • Who are the key players • What is their relative power/importance • What kind of power do they wield J

  19. How supportive are your upper level and executive leaders? • Very Supportive • Somewhat support • Non-committal • Not supportive • Opposed J

  20. How supportive are your advisors? • Very Supportive • Somewhat support • Non-committal • Not supportive • Opposed J

  21. SWOT • Identify Strengths and Weaknesses • Identify problems. threats and opportunities. • State problems, and define the opportunities that are created by those problems. J J

  22. No Structure to Well Articulated Structure

  23. Structure Structure Model Unclear Unclear

  24. The Structure of Advising at UVU ALC AFPC Advisor Forum Advisor Training CACC Departmental Advisors/Offices Support advising Offices Primary Advisor Specialty Advisors Support Advising Staff Counselors Faculty Mentors Advising Administrators

  25. Who does advising at your institution? • Faculty • Staff • Combination

  26. How would you organize it??

  27. UVU Model ALC Advising Administrators Advisement Forum Planning Council Advisor Training (Consulting Role)

  28. What is your model for advising • Faculty Only • Split Model • Decentralized • Centralized • Total Intake • Supplementary

  29. From Advisor Training to Advisor Certification

  30. Training Structure

  31. Advisor Certification

  32. Are you looking to develop training that focuses on • Orientation only • First year • Ongoing training • Combination

  33. Developing Outcomes and Training J

  34. To Begin. . . • Standardized Job Description • Mission and Vision Statements • CAS Standards and NACADA Documents • Process/Job Analysis • Know, do, value This resulted in 181 outcome statements which we categorized around 26 outcome themes and the five training foci J

  35. Finally: 23 Outcomes J

  36. New Advisor OrientationDays 1-5 J

  37. New Advisor OrientationDays 6-10 J

  38. First Year of Training J

  39. Second Year of Training J

  40. The 3rd through the 5th year(a three year cycle) J

  41. Non-Traditional Delivery Methods Traditional

  42. Program Description and Outline

  43. Developing Content J

  44. Examples J

  45. Where do we do it all?

  46. Assessment • Embedded in the processes • Examples • Survey Gold • Rubrics and matrices • 360 evaluation

  47. Improvements J

  48. How to teach Developing Curriculum What to teach Concepts Ideas Values Skills Active learning What will you do? What will the participants do? J

  49. The Extras • Training Coordinators • Supervisor/Administrator Training J

  50. What we plan to do The Future J

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