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