Academic Advising Resources

Curated by Hannah Fisher

Advising Pillars & Competencies

● NACADA Core Competencies
● NACADA Advising Pillars
● CAS Standards for Academic Advising Programs
● NASPA & ACPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators

Advising Approaches
These models can be overlapped and you may use some situationally as students respond to
different approaches in different ways.
● Developmental * (basically everyone says they use this, like an umbrella term)
○ Harris. Prescriptive vs. developmental advising at HBCUs.
● Learning-centered
● Appreciative *
○ Western Carolina University, further info on appreciative advising
● Strengths-based
● Intrusive or proactive *
○ Ohrt. Proactive advising with first-generation students: Suggestions for practice
● Socratic or peripatetic
○ Spence. Socratic advising: An effective academic advising approach in leading
students to student success.
● Hermeneutic or narrative
○ Hagan & Trama. A narrative approach to academic advising: Helping students
create their stories. NACADA WebEvents.
● Relationship or task-oriented
*= used the most a NIU

Books
● Drake, Jordan, P., & Miller, M. A. (2013). Academic advising approaches: Strategies that
teach students to make the most of college. WILEY.
○ Companion resources
● Joslin, Folsom, P., & Yoder, F. (2015). The new advisor guidebook: Mastering the art of
academic advising. Jossey-Bass.
● Grites, Grites, T. J., Miller, M. A., & Givans Voller, J. (2016). Beyond foundations :
Developing as a master academic advisor / edited by Thomas J. Grites, Marsha A. Miller
and Julie Givans Voler. (Grites, T. J. (Thomas J. Grites, M. A. Miller, & J. Givans Voller,
Eds.). Jossey-Bass.
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Podcasts
● NACADA Presents NACADA: The global community for academic advising
● Adventures in advising
● Advising 101
Associations
● NACADA (International, advising specific)
○ Great Lakes Region 5 for Illinois
● ILACADA (Illinois specific)
● NASPA (international, for all higher ed)
○ Student Affairs Partnering with Academic Affairs (knowledge community)
● ACPA (international, for all higher ed)
○ ICPA (Illinois ACPA)
Theories
● Self-authorship, Baxter-Magolda
○ (application)
● Transition, Schlossberg

NACADA Resource Pages

● New advisors
● Stress management