NACADA Review Volume 2: Issue 1

The coeditors and the editorial board are pleased to bring you this special issue of the NACADA Review to celebrate the contributions Dr. Marc Lowenstein has made to scholarly inquiry in academic advising. Such a celebration is called a festschrift: a celebration of scholarly writing, a collection of writings by scholars in tribute to a truly notable scholar. Dr. Marc Lowenstein is such a scholar, one whose influence is widely felt in the world of academic advising scholarship.

Dr. Lowenstein has done more to promote the expansion of scholarship in academic advising than anybody with his

This personal growth narrative follows the author's naïve, idealistic entry into the academic advising profession, through disillusionment with the realities found in the higher education arena and fears of her ability to navigate them, to a place of competence and contentment with the contributions made as the end of her career comes into sight. Guided by the road map provided by Marc Lowenstein's body of work, the author learned to approach academic advising as a process in which advisors, through dialogue, coconstruct with their advisees an education that provides meaning and value to the student.

This is a tribute to Dr. Marc Lowenstein, an influential scholar of academic advising theory, whose contributions have not only profoundly informed my work, but also the field.

This article is a personal testimony to more than 40 years of my experiences with Marc Lowenstein, which provides only a small piece of our personal and professional relationships.

Letter from Coeditors: Essays in Honor of Dr. Marc Lowenstein

The Foundation Lowenstein Laid

A Tribute to Dr. Marc Lowenstein

Marc Lowenstein: A Personal Retrospective

Provocative Moments: Learning-Centered Advising, Self-Authorship, and Social Justice

Toward a Unified Theory of Advising?: Lowenstein Revisited

From the Classroom to the Advising Office: Exploring Narratives of Advising as Teaching

A Philosophy of Advising and the Challenges of Implementation

The Context and Potential of Lowenstein's Learning-Centered Theory of Academic Advising

Normative Theory, Scholarship and the Need to Disagree: Conversations with Marc Lowenstein

From the Co-Editors

The Professionalization of Academic Advising in China: From the Perspective of Culture Diversity

Understanding Athletics Academic Advisors’ Experience with Job Burnout

Rural College Students’ Academic, Financial, and Health-Related Obstacles During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Academic Advisors

Exploring Faculty and Academic Advisors’ Experiences Supporting College Students with Mental Health Challenges: A Qualitative Study Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Examining Experiences of Academic Advisors of Color Using a Critical Race Framework

Normative Theory, Scholarship and the Need to Disagree: Conversations with Marc Lowenstein

Advising the Law: Academic Advising in Law-Generating Institutions of Higher Education

Role as Resource: An Examination of Collier and Morgan (2008) and its Implications for Academic Advising

Academic Advising: A Discipline of Praxis