The Academic Advising Association at University of Nebraska-Lincoln is excited to host its 5th Annual Academic Advising conference. We hope you will join us on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, from 9:00am-3:30pm in UNL’s East Campus Union.
The 2018 theme, All Are Welcome: Building Bridges in Unsettled Times, will inspire and motivate advisors and student affairs professionals to think about strategies and ways to promote building bridges in the midst of social, political, and cultural unrest. As academic advisors and student affairs professionals, we are at the front lines of how this unrest manifests in students' experiences on our college and university campuses. We have a responsibility to advocate for marginalized and vulnerable students on whom the strain of these times rests the most heavily. Rather than living out of fear of the ‘other,’ we challenge and seek to empower our students to press into difficult dialogues with people who have widely ranging viewpoints. Are traditional advising models and student development theory sufficient to address these concerns? What resources, skills, knowledges do our students need to persist and thrive in the future? And how can we support our own professional growth in the face of increasing student loads, new responsibilities, and decreasing budgets? The work of this conference is to begin to discuss and formulate responses to these difficult questions.
Conference registration information and a call for proposals will follow in the coming days and weeks. Please share this invitation with others in your advising community who may be interested in attending and/or presenting a poster or session.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the conference co-chairs: Emira Ibrahimpašić (emira@unl.edu 402.472.2150) or Marybeth Helmink (mbhelmink@unl.edu 402.472.3121).
Sincerely,
Academic Advising Association Executive Committee Members
Emira Ibrahimpašić and Marybeth Helmink – 2018 Conference Co-Chairs
Meagan Savage- Chair
Megan Schaefer- Chair-Elect
Olivia Miller-Communications Coordinator
Shams Al-Badry- Secretary
Joanna Seley- Treasurer
Lisa Karr - Faculty Member Representative
Ashley Hornsby - Graduate Student Representative
Eric Einspahr – Immediate Past Chair
More details at: http://aaa.unl.edu/