Advising at the Millennium: Advisor Satisfaction and Perceived Avenues to Enhancement
This is the third in a series of three articles in which the results of the NACADA Academic Advising Survey 2000 are presented. In this article, advisor satisfaction and suggested avenues for service and professional enhancement are reported. These factors are examined according to the type, mission, and size of the respondents' institutions. In addition, comparisons are made between faculty advisors and professional staff advisors, between advisors and academic administrators, between respondents from centralized and decentralized advising offices, and between advising offices located in academic units and administrative units.
Contributor Notes
Michael Lynch is Associate Vice President for Educational and Personal Development and associate professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Kansas State University. He is a past editor of the NACADA Journal and NACADA Special Publications Editor. He also serves as Coordinator of Academic Advising Initiatives at Kansas State University where he oversees a number of initiatives designed to enhance academic advising.
Readers are encouraged to exercise appropriate caution in generalizing the data and analyses herein reported. The voluntary nature of the respondents, coupled with the fact that 75% of the respondents were NACADA members, precludes readers from considering these data to be representative of all advising in higher education. However, the number of respondents (2,695) lends credibility to the profile presented by the data.
A copy of the NACADA Academic Advising Survey 2000 may be obtained by contacting the NACADA Executive Office by E-mail at nacada@ksu.edu or by calling (785) 532-5717.
