| Presentation Proposal - NACADA Annual Conference |
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Conference Year:
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2026
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Title:
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“Is a ‘safe’ major an ‘ethical’ major?”: Vulnerability and Open and Closed Advising |
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Lead Presenter:
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Rawb Leon-Carlyle |
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Date:
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December 31, 1969 Time: 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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Abstract:
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Is it ethical for an advisor to encourage a premajor student to explore beyond "safe" majors? In this paper, I use both care ethics and Bergsonian ethics to frame "open advising" and "closed advising" as two distinct manners of responding to vulnerability in academic exploration. Vulnerability necessitates an openness not only to potential harm, but openness to change and unpredictability. I then consider whether the foreclosure of harm is preferable to vulnerability and how this question ties into broader structures within the institution and beyond advising. Finally, I situate both closed advising and open advising not merely as responses to vulnerability, but as conceptual extremes that frame exploratory advising as a trajectory without goals. |
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Handouts
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Note: Handouts (if offered for this session) are accessible via the conference app. |
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