For Fall 2020, the typical seminar will be offered in a virtual format. There are 10 required session and they will be spread out throughout the semester in a Zoom format. Sessions can be attended "live" or can be viewed on the Master Advisor Canvas page after the session is recorded. Individuals seeking Master Advisor Certification will be required to attend or view all sessions associated with the seminar. The deadline for 2021 certification is April 1, 2021.
Required sessions are:
Sessions are currently in the planning process. More information will be available soon.
Presented by: MICHAEL HATTON Theatre Program Head, Dept of Theatre and Dance and MEGAN LADOW Coordinator of Advising Programs, Norse Advising
Learn about NKU’s
Advising Philosophy and the role of advising in student development. How is advising like teaching? What are the different approaches to academic advising? How can you employ these approaches to help your student develop critical thinking skills?
Also learn more about the Master Advisor Program including types of certification and opportunities for professional development.
This session is open to all faculty/staff. It is a required component of the Master Advisor Seminar for those seeking Master Advisor Certification.
*A recording of this workshop will be available on the Master Advisor Canvas page after Oct. 5. To earn credit for attendance, please complete the survey for this workshop on the Master Advisor Canvas page. If you need access to the Canvas site, please email ladowm1@nku.edu.
Presented by: AMY CLARK Director, Health, Counseling, and Student Wellness
It can sometimes feel like the line between counseling and advising is fuzzy and grey. Amy will lead a discussion about the key differences between advising and counseling and help to bring the line between services in to focus.
This session is open to all faculty/staff. It is a required component of the Master Advisor Seminar for those seeking Master Advisor Certification.
*A recording of this workshop will be available on the Master Advisor Canvas page after Oct. 6. To earn credit for attendance, please complete the survey for this workshop on the Master Advisor Canvas page. If you need access to the Canvas site, please email ladowm1@nku.edu.
Presented by: LORI WRIGHT Director, Student Support Services
One way of understanding this population is to assess the resources available to them to support their success. Under-resourced students are at greater risk of academic,
financial, or social distress. Learn about how to help them identify and develop the resources essential to their success.
This session is open to all faculty/staff. It is a required component of the Master Advisor Seminar for those seeking Master Advisor Certification.
*A recording of this workshop will be available on the Master Advisor Canvas page after Oct. 7. To earn credit for attendance, please complete the survey for this workshop on the Master Advisor Canvas page. If you need access to the Canvas site, please email ladowm1@nku.edu.
Facilitated by: MEGAN LADOW Coordinator of Advising Programs, Norse Advising
Meet NKU's Senior Master Advisors and gain valuable tips and strategies from their years of collective experience. Senior Master Advisors will lead discussions through case studies of common and unique student issues followed by a Question & Answer session.
This session is open to all faculty/staff. It is a required component of the Master Advisor Seminar for those seeking Master Advisor Certification.
*Due to the interactive nature of this session, it must be attended "live." There will not be a recording available on Canvas, but another live session will be offered again in the spring.
Presented by:TRENÉE JOHNSON Associate Director, Student Financial Assistance
Let’s talk about money. What types of aid can NKU students receive? What do they have to do to keep it? What happens if a student violates a financial aid policy? Is it possible to get their aid back? We’ll discuss these and other pressing questions with our colleagues from Financial Aid.
This session is open to all faculty/staff. It is a required component of the Master Advisor Seminar for those seeking Master Advisor Certification.
*A recording of this workshop will be available on the Master Advisor Canvas page after Oct. 28. To earn credit for attendance, please complete the survey for this workshop on the Master Advisor Canvas page. If you need access to the Canvas site, please email ladowm1@nku.edu.
Since the 2017 introduction of NACADA’s Academic Advising Core Competencies Model, members of the Global Advising Community have looked for ways to use the three main components of the advising experience--conceptual, informational, and relational—to inform professional development opportunities for advisors on their campuses. At the 2019 NACADA Annual Conference, Brandan Lowden (Pikes Peak Community College) and Brandy Swanson (Metropolitan State University of Denver) offered participants a framework for creating or refining an advisor training program based in the Core Competencies Model, matching individual core competencies to specific advisor training activities. Session attendees praised it as “the best” they attended at the conference and recommended that it be repeated in other venues. In this webinar, Brandan and Brandy will introduce conceptual structures valuable in mapping methods of learning to outcomes for professional development programs.
Based on recommendations from attendees at Brandan and Brandy’s session, Carol Wilson (Wofford College) joins them to add examples of professional development topics or activities that apply the Advising Core Competencies. In this webinar, Carol extends Marc Lowenstein’s (2005) seminal question “If advising is teaching, then what do advisors teach?” to ask the related student-centered question: “When advisors teach, how can they help advisees learn?” Attendees will consider A Taxonomy for Teaching. Learning, and Assessment, the 2001 revision of Benjamin Bloom’s 1956 Taxonomy, a framework informing active-learning pedagogy as well as specific learning outcomes in advising practice. Using Bloom’s model for expressing and categorizing educational objectives, she will suggest examples for advisors’ conceptual, informational, and relationship development.
Join Brandy, Brandan, and Carol as they offer ideas that prepare advising leaders to deliver excellent student support services.
In the September 2020 edition of Academic Advising Today, six Black male NACADA leaders began the dialogue “for improving and strengthening the Black male student academic advising experience.” Having “experienced microaggressions, subtle and overt racism, and prejudgment” in their own personal and professional lives, they consider how academic advisors and advising administrators “can work together to improve the overall experience for Black male students.”
In this webinar, sponsored by NACADA’s Inclusion and Engagement Committee and moderated by committee Chair Locksley Knibbs, these scholars come to the virtual environment to take the conversation to a broader and deeper level. They will discuss the variation and complexity of Black male identity and address some of the challenges faced by Black males in higher education settings (such as microaggressions, racial battle fatigue, John Henryism, and imposter syndrome). They will consider what advising professionals can do to facilitate the development of Black male resilience, including cultivating self-efficacy, identifying coping mechanisms, and nurturing hope. In this solution-focused presentation, they will share how these narratives can increase retention and graduation for Black male students.
In higher education, mid-level practitioners face challenges that affect them both personally and professionally. Some academic advisors seek advancement to the top, while others are happy in their roles as “helping professionals.” In 2016, a study by Marshall, Gardner, Hughes, & Lowery found the industry lost 41.7% of student affairs practitioners with between one to five years and 21.7% left after eight to ten years. When promotions are unavailable to this group, it can be difficult to find appreciation in their jobs. It’s the discovery of alternative pathways that might best afford mid-level academic advisors the best opportunities to aid in their professional development. Join us for this webinar, sponsored by NACADA’s Advisor Training and Development Community, that will (1) review research relevant to the topic, (2) discuss career pathways within the niche of academic advising, (3) explore new ways to explore and enrich your own #HorizontalBranding, and (4) begin planning your revised career pathway.
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