Professional Development in an Uncertain Profession: Finding a Place for Academic and Career Advisors
Professional development for academic and career advisors has not attracted much attention in the advising literature and is more often embedded in discussions of the assessment of advising or professional development for student affairs practitioners. The result of this omission from professional discourse has contributed to uncertainty about advising as a profession and minimized the apparent need for professional development. In this article, the author examines the relationship between advising and professional work and details the need for professional development for academic and career advisors in higher education. Barriers to professional development are considered and a model for change is introduced.
Contributor Notes
Kathryn Dey Huggett is the Director of the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently serves as Co-chair of the Madison Academic and Career Advising Association and participated in the initial planning for this organization. She holds an M.A. degree in Public Administration and Policy and is currently working on a Ph.D. in Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Interested readers may contact Ms. Huggett at khuggett@facstaff.wisc.edu.
