HRD 556 Summer Institute in Student Affairs: Academic Advising

Course Number: HRD 556
Course Title: Summer Institute in Student Affairs: Academic Advising
Class #: 2442
Dates: May 18 - 22, 2009
Times: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location: University of Southern Maine, Gorham Campus
Faculty: Charlie Nutt, Jim Peacock, and George Steele
Credit: Three (3) Inservice Graduate Credits
Tuition/Fees: $1,143.00 (Maine Resident)
Registration Form: Click Here (pdf) or call 780-5055

Students registering for HRD 556 will be expected to participate in all sessions and participate in additional daily seminar discussions immediately following workshop presentations. Seminar discussions will provide more indepth discussion of key concepts. Students will be expected to complete all readings as well as a final project

PRESENTERS

CHARLIE NUTT

Dr. Charlie Nutt is the Executive Director of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) and Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Kansas State University.

Previously in work at NACADA, Dr. Nutt has served as Chair of the Task Force on Faculty Advising, taught in the NACADA Summer Institute, worked with the Academic Advising Administrators' Institute and the Assessment of Advising Institute.

JIM PEACOCK

Jim Peacock is currently the Director of the Advising, Career and Transfer (A.C.T.) Center for Kennebec Valley Community College. Jim also owns his own career consulting business, Peak-Careers and is a nationally certified Global Career Development Facilitator Instructor through the National Career Development Association.

He is a Past President of the Maine School Counselor Association (1997) and Past President for Maine Career Development Association (2004). In 2007 He has received the Outstanding Career Practitioner Award from the National Career Development Association and the NACADA Region I Academic Advising Excellence Award in 2004-05 for Maine.

GEORGE STEELE

Dr. George Steele is the Director for Educational Access, for The Ohio Learning Network (OLN), charged with assisting colleges and universities to prepare for the Knowledge Economy. OLN is a consortium of two- and four-year public and independent colleges and universities in Ohio.

George coordinates and manages student affairs issues for OLN. He is the team leader for OhioLearns! an online catalog of courses, certificates, and degrees offered at a distance, catalog data reporting, coordinates OLN's Regional Coordinators and oversees several statewide collaborative projects and the student services sections of the OLN Web site.