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Projects

As an advisor I was facinated by the data-rich environment surrounding me. Students coming and going. Advisors coming and going. Data was everywhere I looked.

Over time several side-projects suggested themselves to me. Nobody told me to undertake these projects, how to do them, or if they would be welcomed. They just seemed intersting and potentially useful so I forged ahead anyway.

My first project, my advisor log, was tracking information on the students I was seeing every day. I saw between 15 and 40 students a day and the data kept accumulating.

My second project, an analysis of student wait times, was intended to bring real data and evidence to a debate about the reasons for long student wait times.

My third project, prerequisite diagrams, proved very useful to students and advisors.

My forth project, Advising Jeopardy, is a fun way to learn and share information in a group setting.

I share these projects as examples of what you could do if you look around the data-rich environment you work in with curiosity. I encourage you to find small research projects and perhaps even to write them up for publication by NACADA. You never know what these kind of things could lead to.
“Developmental counseling or advising is concerned not only with a specific personal or vocational decision but also with facilitating the student's rational processes, environmental and interpersonal interactions, behavioral awareness, and problem-solving, decision-making, and evaluation skills.” – Crookston, 1972

“Academic advising is the only structured service on the campus in which all students have the opportunity for on-going, one-to-one contact with a concerned representative of the institution.” - W. R. Hably
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The National Academic Advising Association 
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A useful list of Advising topics from NACADA 
The Mentor 
A scholarly publication about academic advising in higher education
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