The 2020 MIACADA Awards season is officially open!

Nominations for awards will be accepted through April 1, 2020.

Information on the 2020 MIACADA Advising Awards Program can be found here.

To apply for any of the 2020 MIACADA Academic Advising Awards, use this form.

To apply for for the 2020 MIACADA Pacesetter Award, use this form.

Annually, MIACADA recognizes outstanding advising in the State of Michigan. The individuals chosen shown their success as an advisor through their:

• Strong interpersonal skills
  
• Availability to advisees, faculty, or staff
  
• Frequency of contact with advisees
  
• Appropriate referral activity
  
• Use and dissemination of appropriate information sources
  
• Evidence of student success rate, by advisor or department
  
• Caring, helpful attitude toward advisees, faculty, and staff
  
• Meeting advisees in informal settings
  
• Participation in and support of intrusive advising to build strong relationships with advisees
  
• Monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals
  
• Mastery of institutional regulations, policies, and procedures
  
• Ability to engage in, promote, and support developmental advising
  
• Evidence of administering an academic advising program that supports NACADA's Core Values
  
• Evidence that the advising program reflects the standards of good practice in the CAS Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising
  
• Participation in and support of advisor development programs
  
• Perception by colleagues of nominee's advising or advising administration skills