Advising+Award


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 * Some great ideas here! Let's try to work out the details before the April QEP meeting. Specifically, **
 * ** Create a nomination form **
 * ** Create a "blurb" to be used alongside the faculty of the year nomination marketing "blurb" **
 * ** Decide on who the awarding committee should be. **

Here is the notes page that was distributed at the QEP Development Committee meeting in February: Specifically, here are some things to work on: I would assume that nominations would come from the students, but it may be just as fair for staff/faculty to nominate an advisor. If that's the case a student can write a recommendation to support the nomination. I think the nominee should have been a counselor/faculty member at the College for at least the past full academic year.
 * Decide on criteria for award.
 * What is the measurable satisfaction unit? Students see successful advising as part of getting to graduation..what could be done to measure faculty/counselor advising effectiveness? We need to be careful on this one-advising is a personal experience. Students don't like what they hear, the advising appointment is not 'effective' Some students have been known to shop for the 'right' answer.
 * I think one way to ensure students accept the appropriate answer (legitimizing the effectiveness of faculty adviser) should include: a) getting a additional affirmation from one of the counselors; and b) provide a stated recommendation--a course of action to address the student's concern.


 * The QEP will include advising effectiveness through a number of measures, which we'll get a chance to discuss. Some will be direct, while other measures will be indirect. Just as the faculty of the year award does not look at success rates or how much students have learned, we're looking for advisors who make a personal connection, i.e. make the student feel like someone cares, helped the student get the right information, etc. We will need to be careful not to make this a popularity contest.
 * Decide on "prize" for award. For faculty of the year, each nominee gets a certificate. The "winner" for each campus receives an engraved "Jefferson cup." I'm working on getting an image of that to post.


 * Design the nomination form. Here is a link to the Faculty of the Year nomination form:

I would be fine either letting the College Awards Committee making the decision or creating our own committee. However, I think that if we create our own committee, a student should be appointed to help make the decision.
 * Who will make up the committee to decide on the award recipient?

We want to get done as much as we can, so we can present it to Admin Council and the Educational Foundation before the end of the year. It would be great to have the first award next spring (2012).