Proceedings of the first National Conference on Academic Advising, sponsored in 1977 by the University of Vermont, are presented. Among the 36 papers presented are the following: "Making Advising Work: Basic Elements in Developing and Implementing a Successful Academic Advising Program" (David S. Crockett); "A Community College Academic Advisor's Model" (Carol A. Davis); "Retaining Students Through Centralized and Undeclared Advisement" (Carol R. Patton); "The Changing Nature of Academic Advising" (Edward L. Jones); "Video Materials for Academic Advisement and Career Choices" (Lowell M. Walter); "Data Processing: Aid to Academic Advisement--A Non-Technical Approach" (Gerard F. Moseley); "Academic Advising Focused on Women and Their Needs" (Jan Korslund); "The Invisible Transfer Student" (Toni Trombley); "The Answer Place: Academic Advising in an Open Door, Multicultural and Multipurpose University" (Carolyn B. Smith); "Contract Learning and Portfolio Development as a Process for Academic Advising" (Mary L. Wade); "Advising Minority Students" (Robert Clayton, Andrew Goodrich); "Residence Hall Based Advising for Freshmen" (Derrell Hart, Alleen Deutsch, Elizabeth Rogers); "Peer Advising: A Panel" (Neil A. Bradley, Reginald Grier, Idonas Hughes); "Setting Goals for and Evaluating Academic Advising and Orientation Programs" (J. Richard Arndt); "Non-Traditional Students/Identity Crisis in Post-Secondary Education" (James Peitrovito); "The Assessment of Advising" (Howard C. Kramer); "Maximizing the Use of Faculty Advisors" (Thomas Grites, Joseph Metz); "Personalized Orientation for the Undeclared Major" (John Argeropoulos); and "Establishing a Study Skills Center in a University Setting" (Patricia Quinn). (SW)