Professional Development Purposeful Leadership Critical Connections CampusWide Communication

Professional Development Purposeful Leadership Critical Connections Campus-Wide Communication • Offer opportunities, driven by community input, for networking, training, and professional development events • Coordinate the sharing of best practices of academic advising sustained by NACADA’s core competencies and recommended best-practices • Develop dynamic UAAC leadership to guide the Collaborative, including diverse representation from across campus • Provide ongoing assessments of UAAC relevant curricula, training, resources, and communication • Promote meaningful interactions of academic advisors • Cultivate an inclusive culture of academic advisors at CWU that embraces and promotes diversity • Engage multiple stakeholders in communication and collaboration of academic advising policies • Promote the scholarly practice and professionalism of academic advising at CWU through proactively connecting with faculty, staff, and students

2018 -2019: New This Year • Quarterly Social Event • Monday of finals week • Book Club • Grit by Angela Duckworth • First meeting TBA full schedule available online!

CREATING YOUR OWN ADVISING PHILOSOPHY Caitlin Bassett & Megan Mc. Connell

Workshop Goals • Review content, purpose, and structure of an advising philosophy • Reflect and respond to interactive prompts • Discuss ideas and shared approaches/theories/values • Draft beginning elements to your personal advising philosophy

Your Personal Great Advising Story • Take a minute to think of a time when either as an advisor or an advisee, you feel an advising appointment or relationship went really well. • In groups of 3, tell your partners about this appointment or relationship, and what the advisor did to make it such a positive experience. • As you tell your story, partners listen for and write down attributes they think your story suggests about your advising philosophy. This might include values, beliefs, strengths, approaches, or theoretical foundations.

Purpose • Guide advising interactions • Integrate theories of student development into daily work • Exists with or without intention “Awareness of one’s own personal philosophy of academic advising enables the advisor to examine and improve their relationships with and the outcomes for students. ”

Content • Reflect the spirit of the NACADA Statement of Core Values • Description of advising approaches, student development theories, and interaction strategies used in practice • Can include interest areas (this does not necessarily mean specialization) • Indicate the level of mastery to which the advisor aspires

Read some sample philosophies… • Highlight • Underline • Circle • Compare & contrast

Ponder, Write, Discuss… • Take a minute or two to read the provided questions and write possible responses. • Discuss with a neighbor. Discuss • Ponder more. • Write more. • Discuss more. Ponder Write

NEXT STEPS Set a goal: when will you finish a first draft of your personal philosophy of advising? Find an accountabili-buddy: who will you check-in with to read and revise your first draft? Review: does your personal philosophy of advising ring true?