Proceedings of the 1980 National Conference on Academic Advising are presented. The more than 50 papers are organized as general sessions, preconference workshops, and paper sessions. For the paper sessions, summaries are presented, which are either written by the presenters or the publication editors. Articles and authors include the following: "How Students Develop their Notions of Knowledge and Advice" (William G. Perry, Jr.); "Designing Developmental Advising Environments" (L. Lee Knefelkamp); "Truth-in-Testing and Its Implications for Academic Advising" (Tom Sutton, Robert Moulthrop, and Phil Rever); "Assessing Your Advising Program" (David S. Crockett); "Student Development Assessment and the Developmental Transcript" (Theodore K. Miller); "Writing Grant Proposals for Academic Advising" (Gerald V. Teague and Henry M. Carter); "SIGI-Research and Practices in a Computer-Assisted Career Planning Program" (Lila Norris); "Peer Advisement: A Working Model at the University of Wisconsin-Superior" (Charles R. Barman and Paul A. Benson); "An Integrated Advising-Career Planning Model: Description of the Model and Interpretation of Research on Its Effectiveness" (J. D. Beatty, Beverly Davis, and Bernard White); "Advising Systems: A 'Developmental' Approach to Advising the High Risk Student and Facilitating Total Development of All Students" (Wanda D. Bigham, Terry Blong, and Linda Higginbotham); "Can the Unsuccessful/Reinstated Student Be Aided in His/Her Development?" (James F. Caldwell); "Predicting Which Freshmen Will Drop Out: A Measure of College Persistence" (Calvin B. Campbell); "An Ethnographic Study of Special Student Advising" (Richard J. Cooper); and "The Placement of Students in Appropriate Level Courses and the Academic Adviser" (Marcia D. Escott). (SW)