- 1. IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGEACADEMIC ADVISING supports
ACHIEVING the DREAM (ADT) at IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
2. Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic Advising: Team
VIDr. Kelli McCormack BrownDr. John BuckwalterDr. Jrgen
HeinrichsDr. Wanda LeeDr. Shirley QuarlesITCC Project Champion: Dr.
Chuck Lepper,Assistant Vice President for StudentServices 3. Ivy
Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic Advising: Team
VIPurpose:Assist ITCC with developing an academicadvising program
to promote studentlearning, enhance retention andgraduation rates,
and increasemarketability (employment andadvanced education)for its
graduates. 4. Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic Advising:
Team VI Objectives: Review the mission and current academic makeup
(students, faculty, staff, program offerings, campus support
services, etc.) of ITCC Study and consider various academic
advising programs that will effectively support the current
academic makeup of ITCC and its mission Develop and recommend an
academic advising program that supports the mission of ITCC,
supports students learning needs, and promotes retention and
graduation rates 5. Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic
Advising: Team VIBackground and Concept of Academic Advising
Program Framework designed to support student success through a
process of relationship development between advisor(s) and student
Essential element of a students collegiate experience Increasingly
significant in post-secondary education given the multi-variables
associated with the millennia students 6. Ivy Tech Community
College (ITCC)Academic Advising: Team VI Emerging factors that
influence academic advising programs: Changing demographics Growing
rate of enrollment Rapid growth and need for technology Changes in
curricula programming Family units and responsibilities of students
Accountability 7. Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic
Advising: Team VIThree organizational structures for
academicadvising:CentralizedDecentralizedShared(Habley and
McCauley, 1987; Pardee, 2000; and King, 2003) 8. Ivy Tech Community
College (ITCC)Academic Advising: Team VI Numerous Academic Advising
Models: Faculty Satellite Self Contained Supplementary Split Dual
Total Intake (Habley, 2000; King, 1993; and Pardee, 2000) 9. Ivy
Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic Advising: Team VI Recent
academic advising model:Pro-activedesigned to assist in building
relationships with students by anticipating their needs and
connecting them to appropriate resources and support from the start
of their academic career. 10. Academic Advisor Characteristics
Expertlistening skills Highlevel of Empathytechnical expertise Must
care about Developstudents connection Take questions Be
encouragingseriously Ability to deliverbad news Be proactive 11.
Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic Advising: Team
VIOpportunities Affiliations with two- and four-year colleges
willpick up students in their academic paths Campus activities for
student participation andinformation exchange may serve as platform
todevelop academic advising structures Imminent hiring of Executive
Director of AcademicAdvising Merging college-wide academic advising
counciland Achieving the Dream Academic AdvisingExpert Design Team
merged into one group 12. Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC)Academic
Advising: Team VI Threats Failure to design integrated approach to
academic advising poses major threats to students academic success,
financial standing and long-term career options Deferring
integrated advising may weaken institution at this precipitous
economic, political moment (national focus on community colleges,
President Snyder at White House event) Institutional size and
decentralized administration may prove too difficult to design,
implement any truly meaningful academic advising approach 13.
Creating an Organizational Structure Establish bi-weekly
communication with area coordinators via teleconferences, including
Face-to-face monthly meetings for advising coordinators, initially
in Indianapolis, later perhaps held at regional campus advising
centers Develop a master elist of all advisors (both professional
and faculty) doing advising, send out notes from advisor
coordinator meetings, advising tips, etc. at least bi-weekly Invite
ALL academic advisers to attend a training meeting once per term
14. Creating an Organizational StructureCentral advising
coordinator group initial tasks Share advising information, best
practices, and campus updates from the campuses/regions Review and
complete the college Advising Handbook Modify the Nursing Advisors
Guide to establish a generic Advising Guide, including sections for
Undeclared students Workforce development students Transfer
students Degree/certificate students Develop training videos for
advisors that later, with modification can become web accessible
advising modules for students 15. RecommendationsA modified shared
academic advising program model o Structurally shared (modified
supplemental model) o Pro-active advising model Creating an
organizational structure andculture Resources 16. All the
literature shows that students who are connected with a
representative on aregular basis are more likely tobe retained and
more likely to persist to graduation than thosewho are not.Charlie
Nutt, executive director for the National AcademicAdvising
Association. (Wojciechowska 2010)
