This page contains resources for Academic Advisors. Under Algonquin Resources, you will find information about how Academic Advising works at Algonquin College. Under Best Practices, you will find articles and websites with information about the field of Academic Advising.
Academic Advising as Learning: 10 Organizing Principles – What should students learn through advising? How might the learning take place? This article uses 10 organizing principles to answer these two questions.
NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising
Pillars The NACADA Board of Directors endorses 4 “Pillar” documents that champion the educational role of academic advising in a diverse world.
Concept of Advising NACADA’s official statement on academic advising that reflects many of the current views and philosophies.
Core Competencies
The core competencies model is used to identify the broad range of understanding, knowledge, and skills that support academic advising, to guide professional development, and to promote the contributions of advising to student development, progress, and success.
Core Values
NACADA’s statement of core values, which reflects the many cultural and educational contexts in which academic advising is practiced globally.
Journal
The official refereed NACADA journal, published in June and December. This journal exists to advance scholarly discourse about the research, theory and practice of academic advising I higher education.
Communities NACADA has a number of communities that focus in on various areas of academic advising. As a starting point, I’d recommend joining the Listserv for Faculty Advisors and Canada Advisors .
Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources features member written articles on 250+ subjects and over 100 resource pages organized by topic and applicable to academic advising.
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