Advising POP-UP Professional Development

Branding Academic Advising: A Renewed Focus on Advising-Creating a Culture of Success through Proactive Advising Experiences 

When: Wednesday, November 6, 2019. 9:00 - 3:00pm CST

Where: TBR System Office. 1 Bridgestone Park, Nashville, TN 37214. Rooms 341-344

POP-UP PD Flyer

 

Overview: Effective branding of academic advising is dependent upon several factors. This highly interactive session will focus on building an effective proactive advising program. As a result of attending this session, participants will:

• Understand how to implement effective proactive advising strategies
• Understand how strategic academic advising branding and collaboration will lead to college transformation for students, faculty, staff, and other institutional partners.
• Understand how to build customized plans to aid in the student success agenda. 
• Additionally, participants will leave with tools to develop and implement a customized academic advising syllabus for their respective colleges.

Audience: The campus point of contact for the Proactive Advising Grant is required to attend.It is highly recommended that each TBR institution brings a team of (4) consisting of the following:

•      Proactive Advising Grant Point of Contact
•      Professional or Faculty Advisor (Contingent on campus advising structure)
•      Faculty Member (New Students Programs, First Year Experience, etc...)
•      Financial Aid, Admissions, Career Services Counseling Services, etc.

Registration Deadline: Friday, October 25, 2019

Travel Reimbursements: Teams should carpool together. TBR will reimburse mileage only for one vehicle per institution.  

This meeting is sponsored by NACADA and TBR. 

        

 

Consultant

  Jermain Pipkins serves as the Dean of Academic Affairs at Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC). He also serves as the Curriculum and Catalog Dean at LAVC. Throughout his sixteen-year career in higher education, he has gained a broad range of experience as he has held positions in student services, instruction, administration, and academic affairs. Jermain has led efforts in enrollment management, retention initiatives, curriculum, counseling, dual enrollment and assessment. Prior to this role, Jermain served as Dean of Student Services within California and Texas. His experience across Student Services and Academic Affairs has given him a unique understanding of the inner workings of the community college.

 

Mr. Pipkins is the current chair and lead faculty consultant for the NACADA Summer Institute. He has a successful track record in leading efforts to develop comprehensive advising models and structures, branding, developing student learning outcomes and assessment plans for advising, first year experience programs, and proactive case management advising experiences. As an educator, Jermain continues to lead efforts that focus on faculty and staff collaboration while promoting student success.

Jermain received his A.S degree from El Centro College, B.A of Liberal Arts from The University of Texas at Arlington. He also has a Master of Science in Education with a specialization in leadership for higher education and is currently pursuing a doctorate in higher education at the California State University, Fullerton.