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Professional Academic Advising

Professional Academic Advising. Professional Practice in Academic Advising. First Question:. What is a profession? What is a professional?. Characteristics of a Profession or Professional. Specialized Body of Knowledge Set of Skills Group Mission or Identity

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Professional Academic Advising

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  1. Professional Academic Advising Professional Practice in Academic Advising

  2. First Question: • What is a profession? What is a professional?

  3. Characteristics of a Profession or Professional • Specialized Body of Knowledge • Set of Skills • Group Mission or Identity • Standards of Behavior and Practice

  4. Topics • What is a profession? What is a professional? • What is our primary professional mission? • What traits do we need as individuals to serve this mission? Why are these traits important? • Where do our standards of professional behavior come from? • What may make it difficult to behave as a professional? • What can we do to help ensure that we behave in a professional manner?

  5. What is our primary professional mission? The University of Memphis values academic advisors as the first point of contact with students in their degree planning process.

  6. Topics • What is a profession? What is a professional? • What is our primary professional mission? • What traits do we need as individuals to serve this mission? Why are these traits important? • Where do our standards of professional behavior come from? • What may make it difficult to behave as a professional? • What can we do to help ensure that we behave in a professional manner?

  7. Implications of being first contact: We are privileged to have confidential information about perfect strangers. • People dependent upon us for our • Protection of this confidential information • Conscientious, competent, and timely application of our knowledge and skills • Ability to communicate accurately • Ability to collaborate on their behalf

  8. What traits are required? • Conscientiousness • Competence • Timeliness • Sensitivity • Confidentiality • Effective Communication • Integrity

  9. More traits… Collaboration with others • In our profession • In other professions • Peer consultation and review • Complete, Accurate Documentation • An attitude of being a life long learner

  10. Day-to-Day Implications • Be there! • Show up on time • Report any necessary absence in a timely manner • Be flexible in meeting emergent needs • Be a team player • Treat colleagues and patients with respect and without regard to ethnicity, religious preference, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status • Be realistic and diplomatic in addressing interpersonal problems • Be willing to ask for help and feedback

  11. Topics • What is a profession? What is a professional? • What is our primary professional mission? • What traits do we need as individuals to serve this mission? Why are these traits important? • Where do our standards of professional behavior come from? • What may make it difficult to behave as a professional? • What can we do to help ensure that we behave in a professional manner?

  12. Where do our standards of professional behavior come from? • NACADA Core Values • Council on the Advancement of Standards (CAS) Standards for the Student Affairs Profession • Institutional Policies • The “Sandbox Rules” (aka All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

  13. Topics • What is a profession? What is a professional? • What is our primary professional mission? • What traits do we need as individuals to serve this mission? Why are these traits important? • Where do our standards of professional behavior come from? • What may make it difficult to behave as a professional? • What can we do to help ensure that we behave in a professional manner?

  14. What may make it difficult to behave as a professional? • Personal Priorities • Family and personal life, Greed, Sense of entitlement (flaunting of standards) • Poor self-confidence or self-esteem • Failure to assume responsibility for our actions (externalization) • Impairment (fatigue, illness, depression, substance abuse) • Pressure from others (real or perceived) • Poor respect for appropriate boundaries • Conflicts of interest and dual relationships • Sexual exploitation and sexual harassment

  15. Topics • What is a profession? What is a professional? • What is our primary professional mission? • What traits do we need as individuals to serve this mission? Why are these traits important? • Where do our standards of professional behavior come from? • What may make it difficult to behave as professionals? • What can we do to help ensure that we behave in a professional manner?

  16. Maintaining Professional Behavior To self monitor professional behavior in academic advising, we can ask ourselves: • Would I do this if someone else were watching or knew about it? • Whose needs are being served by this behavior? • Consultation with colleagues

  17. Earning Trust These professional standards, practices, and behaviors earn the trust of the students we advise and the colleagues with whom we work.

  18. You are invited to continue Theory CAS Standards, Core Values Vision, Mission for Academic Advising Models for Academic Advising

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