Name of Chair: Joshua Barron 2013-2014 Commission/Interest Group Report Name of Commission/Interest Group: Commission on Undecided & Exploratory Students (#AdvCUES) Mission: NACADA promotes student success by advancing the field of academic advising globally. We provide opportunities for professional development, networking, and leadership for our diverse membership. NACADA Promotion Promotion Promotion, Celebration of CUES students learning decision-making skills through the work of CUES advisors CUES advisors to adopt and expand this initiative for encouraging one cohesive and clear message Celebration of CUESspecific advisor accomplishments #itakeforks campaign goes everywhere as students are encouraged to blog, YouTube, Tweet, Vine, etc., their success stories #itakeforks representatives carry the initiative to the advising conferences Creation of a new CUES Awards Committee Creation of awards Nominations solicited Recipients selected Awards presented Quantitative: Internet count of #itakeforks appearances, increasing over time Qualitative: Review, at Random, of #itakeforks postings #itakeforks representatives identified, in attendance, and in action at Regional (and other) Conferences Communications inviting involvement in Awards committee Monthly Awards Committee meetings with online reporting Awards promoted online (with rubric) Nominations collected through NACADA online system Certificates presented in October 2014 fall
Develop a long-term vision and persistent goals for the Commission Assess Us - Know our goals and report monthly on our progress through the CUES!News emails Create an active CUES Steering Committee Spend JRB's year #2 as healthy transition to incoming chair Assess Membership - Know who our members are and determine what their needs are Assess Themselves - Provide tools that help the CUES advisors do selfassessment and take action from their own findings Collect and post old goals and reports to learn from the past Establish new goals with Steering Committee, membership, and incoming Chair to present at 2014 Annual Conference Each Steering Committee member will be responsible for one or more projects of the Commission. Chair's job is to serve as a leadership hub that will direct and manage these commission leaders. Conduct an analysis of membership data Survey membership regarding needs Target messages to introduce resources that may address particular needs Propose new projects to address new needs History posted online New goals collaboratively created prior to Annual Conference New goals presented at Annual Conference by incoming Chair and incoming Steering Committee members Monthly Steering Committee meetings (recorded) Project reports posted online in meeting minutes Project progress communicated by leaders to membership in monthly emails (CUES!News) Analysis completed and results posted (online and in CUES!News) Survey created, distributed, analyzed, and reported Customized messages delivered to groups where existing resources may not be known fall 2
Provide CUES members with easy access to a helpful index of scholarly work Foster networking and collaborative scholarship Recruit and promote CUES presentations and a regular, consistent stream of CUES publications Promote scholarly work in conference programs Make proposal review process more helpful, reliable and valid Build and improve a thorough database of the existing scholarly work Create and host a new monthly online meeting that is open to all members interested in working together on scholarly work Identify one topic and writer/writing team to propose for next year s schedule of AAT & NJ publications Auto-approve published peer-reviewed NACADA Journal articles as Conference Proceeding presentations Provide proposal reader panel or webinar group who can provide valuable direction and feedback prior to submission Provide valuable and meaningful feedback on each CUES proposal Use statistical analysis for inter-rater reliability and rating significance http://blog.advising.ttu.edu/abou t-university-advising/literatureon-advising-exploratorystudents/ Meetings will be recorded and posted online Action Steps will be recorded in meeting minutes and posted online Number of publications submitted Number of publications printed Number of presentations proposed Number of presentations accepted Agreement with Annual Conference chair, Theory & Philosophy Commission, and NACADA Board to support this approach Creation and delivery of webinar panel. Proposal Committee instructions to readers on proposal review standard process Proposal Committee report on submissions, process, and recommendations for Commission Sponsored presentations and CUES awards fall 3
Technology Inclusion Inclusion Be strategic in the use of various technologies to efficiently and effectively support the work of the Commission in interacting with its various constituent audiences Provide all members with the opportunity to become actively involved, proactively seek out the unengaged Partner well with other commissions and interest groups by seeking out and creating opportunities for collaboration Create a communication plan to strategically identify audiences, technologies, messages, and timing, and managers of various media #itakeforks Campaign LinkedIN Discussions Volunteer Opportunities Targeted member messages based on membership Needs Each steering committee will be responsible for considering partnership opportunities related to their chosen area of responsibility Creation of plan Identification, training, and reports of work completed by media managers (e.g., web site revamped according to plan) Adherence to plan as reported by project teams and in monthly Steering Committee meetings Number of action-oriented (involvement) opportunities promoted to all CUES members in monthly communications Representative sampling and analysis of #itakeforks breadth of impact, comparison to analysis of membership demographics Representative sampling and analysis of LinkedIn discussion participation comparison to analysis of membership demographics Inclusion-related partnerships will be reported in monthly Steering Committee meetings and other membership communications Co-written NACADA blog posts fall 4
Repository - Build a persistent CUES Knowledge Base of Best Practices Update the NACADA Clearinghouse Move away from the ListServ toward some other platform (probably a Wiki) that provides for building on past interactions instead of rehashing the same conversations again and again Review all CUES records in Clearinghouse Topical map created to provide for user-friendly experience, identification of missing resources Approve, replace, add to, or update resources as appropriate Creation of online repository Identification and Recruitment of Subject Matter Experts to moderate/curate/refine entries Volunteers solicited to participate from membership Numerical progress included in monthly project reports provided to steering committee Anchor article updated fall 5 Reporting Due Dates: Columns 1 through 4 are to be completed by November 1 each year; columns 5 and 6 are to be completed by August 15 each year. FOR 2013-2014 THESE REPORTS WILL BE SENT TO ELSHAFFER@KSU.EDU & HMHELMKE@K-STATE.EDU