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
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