Provost’s Committee for Advising Launches Advisor Awards

For the first time, the Provost’s Com­mit­tee for Advis­ing (PCA) is seek­ing advi­sor award nom­i­na­tions for any fac­ulty and staff aca­d­e­mic advi­sors. A total of three awards, each will have a pro­fes­sional staff advi­sor recip­i­ent and a fac­ulty recip­i­ent, are open for nominations.

The awards were cre­ated to “show­case the won­der­ful advis­ing that has been con­ducted across cam­pus,” accord­ing to Vanessa Har­ris, direc­tor, Uni­ver­sity Advis­ing and co-chair of the Provost’s Com­mit­tee for Advising.

The three awards cel­e­brate Advis­ing Inno­va­tion, Excel­lence in Advis­ing, and Out­stand­ing New Advi­sors. All cur­rent and full-time Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico staff or fac­ulty advi­sors can be nom­i­nated. Advis­ing must be the pri­mary duty of staff mem­bers’ duties, or fac­ulty who spend a por­tion of their time pro­vid­ing advis­ing ser­vices. Nom­i­na­tors must sub­mit online a nom­i­na­tion form and two let­ters of sup­port on behalf of the nom­i­nee. Self-nominations are not accepted as we encour­age nom­i­na­tions from stu­dents and peers.

This is the first year that advi­sor awards are being given in an effort to rec­og­nize aca­d­e­mic advi­sors for their impres­sive con­tri­bu­tions to stu­dents. In Feb­ru­ary 2012, con­sul­tants from the National Aca­d­e­mic Advis­ing Asso­ci­a­tion issued a report based on improv­ing stu­dent advis­ing at UNM and they rec­om­mended start­ing campus-wide awards for aca­d­e­mic advi­sors. The NACADA report helped set in motion the cre­ation of these three awards.

“It is a small token of appre­ci­a­tion of those that have gone above and beyond,” Har­ris said.

The online process can be found at: Advis­ing Awards. Nom­i­na­tions will be accepted through Feb. 28, 2013.

For more infor­ma­tion, email Laura Valdez or call (505) 277‑2631.