TEXAAN scholarship

The TEXAAN scholarship will be presented to an academic advisor who is pursuing graduate or undergraduate education.

Award: The recipient will be recognized at the meeting and will receive a scholarship for $1,000.

Eligibility: Any individual who is currently enrolled in either a graduate or undergraduate program, has been an academic advisor for at least two years and a member of TEXAAN.

Criteria: The selection committee will review all nominations and based on the evidence presented by the nominator as to how completing this course work will impact his/her job as an academic advisor. Such evidence may include:
  • strong interpersonal skills
  • availability to advisees, faculty, or staff
  • frequency of contact with advisees
  • appropriate referral activity
  • use and dissemination of appropriate information sources
  • evidence of student success rate, by advisor or department
  • caring, helpful attitude toward advisees, faculty, and staff
  • meeting advisees in informal settings
  • participation in and support of intrusive advising to build strong relationships with advisees
  • monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals
  • mastery of institutional regulations, policies, and procedures
  • ability to engage in, promote, and support developmental advising
  • evidence of administering an academic advising program that supports NACADA's Core Values
  • evidence that the advising program reflects the standards of good practice in the CAS Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising
  • participation in and support of advisor development programs
  • perception by colleagues of nominee's advising or advising administration skills
  • institutional recognition of nominee for outstanding advising or advising administration

Scholarship Application