| 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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Why Advising Keeps Failing...Even When Advisors Are Excellent |
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Lead Presenter:
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Jennifer McLean |
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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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Colleges and universities have modernized nearly every system that shapes student success-curriculum, enrollment, technology, and workforce alignment-yet academic advising remains structurally underdesigned. Too often, advising is treated as a transactional service rather than institutional infrastructure intentionally built to support student decision-making and momentum.
This session challenges that framing. Drawing on decades of advising leadership and system-level work, the presenter reframes advising as a core institutional system that directly influences equity, completion, and advisor sustainability. Participants will examine the consequences of service-based advising models for students, advisors, and institutional outcomes and will be introduced to an Advising Infrastructure Framework that surfaces how organizational alignment, pathway integration, and advisor enablement shape results. Attendees will leave with shared language and a diagnostic lens to elevate advising in institutional conversations and to shift change efforts from individual performance to structural design. |
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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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