Outstanding New Advisor Award

Description of Award

The Outstanding New Advisor Award is given annually to recognize an individual who serves undergraduate advisees in exemplary ways. The Award includes a $2000 cash prize and membership in the University’s Academy of Advising Excellence, and a digital badge to verify the nominee is a deserving recipient of this award.

Eligibility

The nominee must be a full-time faculty or professional advisor who has served as an academic advisor for 0 to 3 years at the time of nomination.

Criteria

The Advising Awards Committee evaluates on the evidence of qualities and practices that distinguish the nominee as an outstanding academic advisor including:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Availability to advisees, faculty or staff
• Frequency of contact with advisees
• Appropriate referral activity
• Use and dissemination of appropriate info sources
• Evidence of student success rate, by advisor or department
• Caring, helpful attitude towards advisees, faculty and staff
• Meeting advisees in informal settings
• Mastery of institutional regulations, policies and procedures
• Ability to engage in, promote and support developmental advising
• Evidence of advising in 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 skills
• Monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals
• Participation in and support of intrusive advising to build strong relationships with advisees

Outstanding New Advisor Award Rubric (PDF)

General Procedures for Nominations

• Faculty, staff, administrators, or students will nominate individuals for the Award
• To encourage participation nominators need only to provide a nomination to put someone into consideration
• After an individual is nominated, the appropriate department or unit will be notified; and the nominee’s supervisor will be encouraged to oversee submission of a dossier