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Download full textMcDonald, Melinda L. – NACADA Journal, 2019
Virginia Gordon contributed considerable and comprehensive work in the field of academic advising, including writings on topics ranging from the history of academic advising to her groundbreaking research on the undecided student population. Her model for training and developing new academic advisors stood out as exemplary. This article focuses on…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Counselor Training, Models, Teaching Methods
Steele, George E. – NACADA Journal, 2019
Most individuals in the field of academic advising know Virginia Gordon through the dedicated and transformative work she did for NACADA. Less well known is the equally creative and transformative work she engaged in for most of her professional life at Ohio State University. This article addresses how her ideas and convictions about academic…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Faculty, Counselor Educators, Teacher Attitudes
Gordon, Virginia N. – NACADA Journal, 2019
One of the most important components of an effective advising program is "well"-trained academic advisors. An ongoing, well-conceived training program can provide the continuity, broad base of knowledge, skills, and specific information crucial to sound advising. Another approach to training is to offer "future" faculty,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Training, Faculty Advisers, Higher Education
Strayhorn, Terrell L. – NACADA Journal, 2015
This article is an adaptation of the keynote presentation from the NACADA Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN, October 9, 2014), that was given by Terrell Strayhorn, a professor of Higher Education at The Ohio State University and the director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise (CHEE). CHEE is a new research and policy center that aims…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Success, Academic Achievement, College Students
Direct linkWheland, Ethel R.; Butler, Kevin A.; Qammar, Helen; Katz, Karyn Bobkoff; Harris, Rose – NACADA Journal, 2012
In this mixed-methods study we identify situations that impact students' decisions to withdraw from a course and examine their affective reasoning and attitudes toward course withdrawal. Exploring students' decision-making processes through the lens of self-authorship, we show that students frequently seek information from people with whom they…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Withdrawal (Education), Decision Making, Intellectual Development
Tokpah, Christopher; Padak, Nancy; Baycich, Dianna; Trehan, Dawn Marie; Turnidge, Darrell – NACADA Journal, 2006
As the numbers of students who earn the general educational development (GED) high school equivalency diploma increase, so too does the presence of GED credential holders on college campuses. Yet in large universities, they make up a relatively small demographic group whose advising needs may go unnoticed. In this article, we describe a series of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Campuses, High School Equivalency Programs, Academic Advising
