Join us for Tuesday’s (4/15) #AcAdv Chat from 12-1 pm CT on Twitter as the academic advising community discusses, shares, and challenges ideas put forth in a recent article and blog post. Follow the moderator (MOD) @AcAdvChat and conversation on Twitter with the #AcAdv & #iamAcAdv hashtags From my own experience, Jeff Selingo’s thoughts that faculty in higher education are not advising , are completely off the mark and inaccurate:
“While advising takes time away from research and teaching, not all professors favor relinquishing their role to professionals. Many see themselves as essential fonts of information about majors, courses and graduate school. But there are also fewer full-time faculty members around to do mentoring.”
In response to the inaccurate quotes from this article, Dr. Charlie Nutt, Executive Director of NACADA, responded in an Inside Higher Ed blog post follow up and on the NACADA Blog he says:
“believe[s] very strongly in faculty involvement the academic advising experiences of students. That role must be carefully defined and implemented. My statement as quoted in the article appears to be negative toward faculty advisors or faculty advising and that was not my message. My message was that institutions must look carefully at their missions, their students, and their structure to determine the best advising processes.”
From my own experiences, I know the Academic Advising Community is strong, and might have a thing or two to say about the commentary above. I look forward to hearing from NACADA members and my @AcAdvChat colleagues, which INCLUDE instructors, faculty, professionals, personal tutors, and more who comprise a diverse academic advising community. Follow and contribute to the current conversation using the #iamAcAdv hashtag. Let me know “who advises best” …or better yet answer the how and what helps us support our students BETTER. How are you advising in the community? What does academic advising mean to you on your campus?
Let’s hear from the actual @NACADA & #AcAdv community about advising => #iamAcAdv (Respond to http://t.co/TvWetgCJ1A) pic.twitter.com/Pr52wcyp7P — Laura Pasquini (@laurapasquini) April 14, 2014
Who is part of the Academic Advising Community & what we’re about => #iamAcAdv UPDATE 4/15/14: The #AcAdv Chat group Discusses what it means to be part of the #iamAcAdv community [Transcripts] Thoughts from @jselingo – the author from the NYT article post chat on Twitter, with tweet backs from myself and Marsha Miller:
Interesting #AcAdv chat about my NYT story, but seemed to ignore cost of fac/pro model & NSSE data http://t.co/0EgHZ407Si @laurapasquini — Jeff Selingo (@jselingo) April 16, 2014
@jselingo @laurapasquini Jeff, #acadv aren’t negating data, they said you over simplified #acadv It takes a village to help stds reach goals
— Marsha A. Miller (@braeingle) April 16, 2014
.@jselingo I don’t think it’s an either or model for #AcAdv & I was thinking more broadly than just US #higherer where NSSE does not apply
— Laura Pasquini (@laurapasquini) April 16, 2014
.@jselingo I think your article did encourage the #AcAdv Community to share how advisors (all types) support students in #highered So thx!
— Laura Pasquini (@laurapasquini) April 16, 2014
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