Academic Advising Approaches Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College

by Drake, Jayne K.; Jordan, Peggy; Miller, Marsha A.

• ISBN13: 9781118100929
• ISBN10: 1118100921
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781118418765
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-09-16
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training on how to do so. Various advising strategies exist, each of which has its own proponents.

To serve increasingly complex higher education institutions around the world and their diverse student cohorts, academic advisors must understand multiple advising approaches and adroitly adapt them to their own student populations. Academic Advising Approaches outlines a wide variety of proven advising practices and strategies that help students master the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career goals. This book embeds theoretical bases within practical explanations and examples advisors can use in answering fundamental questions such as:

• What will make me a more effective advisor?
• What can I do to enhance student success?
• What conversations do I need to initiate with my colleagues to improve my unit, campus, and profession?

Linking theory with practice, Academic Advising Approaches provides an accessible reference useful to all who serve in an advising role. Based upon accepted theories within the social sciences and humanities, the approaches covered include those incorporating developmental, learning-centered, appreciative, proactive, strengths-based, Socratic, and hermeneutic advising as well as those featuring advising as teaching, motivational interviewing, self-authorship, and advising as coaching. All advocate relationship-building as a means to encourage students to take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress.

This book serves as the practice-based companion to Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook, also from NACADA. Whereas the handbook addresses the concepts advisors and advising administrators need to know in order to build a success advising program, Academic Advising Approaches explains the delivery strategies successful advisors can use to help students make the most of their college experience.

Author Biography

Jayne Drake is vice dean of academic affairs at Temple University in Philadelphia and past president of NACADA (2009-2010). She has traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world giving keynote addresses and serving as a consultant on a number of advising issues, and has published broadly in the areas of faculty advising, advising as teaching, and advising professional development programs.

Peggy Jordan is student development counselor at Oklahoma City Community College and the NACADA Publications Advisory Board chair. She also coauthored chapters in both The Handbook of Career Advising (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook, Second Edition (Jossey-Bass, 2008).

Marsha A. Miller, Kansas State University, is NACADA’s Assistant Director for Resources and Services. She was co-editor of NACADA's monograph Comprehensive Advisor Training and Development: Practices that Deliver.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Editors

The Authors

Part One: Foundations of Academic Advising Practice

1 Advising Strategies to Support Student Learning Success: Linking Theory and Philosophy with Intentional Practice (Ezekiel Kimball and Susan M. Campbell)

2 Advising as Teaching and the Advisor as Teacher in Theory and in Practice (Jayne K. Drake)

(Advising-as-teaching student scenario authored by Marsha A. Miller)

3 Learning-Centered Advising (Maura M. Reynolds)

4 Developmental Academic Advising (Thomas J. Grites)

Voices From the Field: “So I’ve Been Thinking . . . O’Banion in Reverse” (Patrick Cate)

Part Two: A New Light: Viewing the Practice of Academic Advising From Different Perspectives

5 Motivational Interviewing: Helping Advisors Initiate Change in Student Behaviors (Judy Hughey and Robert Pettay)

6 Appreciative Advising (Jennifer L. Bloom, Bryant L. Hutson, and Ye He)

Voices From the Field: “Applying Appreciative Advising” (Joseph Murray)

7 Strengths-Based Advising (Laurie A. Schreiner)

8 Academic Advising Informed by Self-authorship Theory (Janet K. Schulenberg)

9 Proactive Advising (Jennifer Varney)

Voices From the Field: “Increasing First-Year Student Engagement Through Mid-year Self-reflections” (Holly Martin)

10 Advising as Coaching (Jeffrey McClellan)

Part Three: A New Lens: Applying Theories From Other Disciplines to the Practice of Academic Advising

11 The Application of Constructivism and Systems Theory to Academic Advising (Terry Musser and Frank Yoder)

12 Socratic Advising (Janet M. Spence and Nora A. Scobie)

13 Understanding and Interpretation: A Hermeneutic Approach to Advising (Sarah Champlin-Scharff and Peter L. Hagen)

Part Four: A New Path: Envisioning the Future of Academic Advising

14 Envisioning the Future (Marc Lowenstein)

Index