Save the Date!

Thursday, Feb. 6th
9:00am – 3:00pm
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL

More information to follow shortly….

Are you looking for an upcoming professional development event for your staff?

ILACADA has partnered with the University of Illinois at Chicago to host a NACADA Webconnect event. The Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services (LARES) Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites you to attend the NACADA webinar on  Developing Intercultural Communication Skills for Academic Advising. We invite you to this professional development opportunity to meet with advisors from UIC as well as advisors from other institutions. Refreshments will be provided!

Developing Intercultural Communication Skills for Academic Advising
Online Webinar Presentation
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

More information and registration…

The latest edition of the u.select Illinois newsletter!

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Registration for 2013 u.select Statewide Meeting
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Tech Tips—Coursebank Collection
Introducing Transferology®
u.select Illinois Name Change

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Teri Farr, ILACADA’s Programming Committee chair, is this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Administrative Professional Staff Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University!  Congratulations, Teri!

Please join us in congratulating the following people who have been elected to the ILACADA Leadership Team as a result of this spring’s election.

Executive Board positions serving two year terms to begin on August 1st, 2013:

• President – Shawn Schultz, Eastern Illinois University (two years as president followed by one year as past president)
• Secretary – Eliza Callahan, University of Illinois-Chicago
• Treasurer – Jeff Chiapello, University of St. Francis
• At-Large Member representative – Megan Gerken, Northern Illinois University
• Standing Committee Chair positions serving one year terms to being on August 1st, 2013:
• Programming Committee – Teri Farr, Illinois State University
• Communications Committee – Kim Little, Southern Illinois University
• Constitution Committee – Brad Elwood, Daley College
• Membership Committee – Anjie Almeda, Illinois State University
• Elections Committee – Anjie Almeda, Illinois State University

Next year, the ILACADA membership will select a Vice President/President-Elect, and a second At-Large representative.

Thank you to everyone who voted in this year’s election.  We had a pretty good voter turnout for our first ever election! 

Happy July Fourth!

You voted at the ILACADA Annual conference held on May 30th on the campus of Illinois State University and the winner of Illinois Best of State is “There is an US in Syllabus…Creating and Incorporating a Syllabus for Academic Advising.”  This session was presented by Kimberly Golk, Debby Blatzer, Lissette Alvarado and Sumeet Singh all from Moraine Valley Community College.  All will receive their 2014 Region V conference registration fee paid for by ILACADA and an automatic presentation acceptance at next year’s regional conference in Madison, WI.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s winner!  Thanks again to all of our wonderful presenters at the 2013 Annual Conference “Setting Your Advising GPS.”  Everyone did a fantastic job and we appreciate your support and participation.  We look forward to seeing you all during the year at various professional development activities and of course next year when Southern Illinois University – Carbondale is our host site for our 2014 annual conference.  We hope you can join us!

Best wishes for a safe and relaxing summer!

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Thank you to the over 300 academic advisors from all over Illinois who made ILACADA ’13 so special and memorable!