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Being a software programmer for many years, I have a background in software solutions. It’s the way I think sometimes. So when I was learning about Academic Advising I kept seeing opportunities to contribute using my design and programming skills. I’ve created several pieces of software that have been downloaded by hundreds of schools.

The Academic Advising Program Assessment (AAPA) is a software tool I created that uses the standards and guidelines for academic advising programs as defined by the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS). It is intended to enable the assessment of each line of the CAS standard and indicate if evidence is available for the assessment or if the assessment is opinion.

The Academic Advising Inventory (AAI) was developed by Roger B. Winston, Jr., Ph. D. and Janet A. Sandor, Ph. D. at The University of Georgia many years ago and is now owned byNACADA. I created software, the Academic Advising Inventory System, to enable schools to use the AAI and to minimize the time needed in administrating AAI surveys to students, to minimize the time needed to consolidate all the student surveys, and to report the results.

The Student Survey System (SSS) provides an easy way to survey students without using college IT development resources. The software enables advising administrators to minimize the time needed in administrating Academic Advising surveys of students and to minimize the time needed to consolidate all the student surveys and report the results. It is configurable and easy to use for one or for thousands of students.
“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
NACADA 
The National Academic Advising Association 
NACADA Clearinghouse 
A useful list of Advising topics from NACADA 
The Mentor 
A scholarly publication about academic advising in higher education