Advisor of the Year Nomination

First awarded during the 2021-22 academic year, the TBR Advisor of the Year Award will be awarded annually by the TBR System Office as part of the annual SOAR Awards Ceremony held in March. With TBR endorsement, the Advisor of the Year recipients will then be forwarded to the NACADA for consideration for the national NACADA Outstanding Advisor of the Year Award

The President's office should collect the nomination form along with all required materials and complete the college certification before using the form below to submit their nominee once a finalist has been determined at the campus level. 

Advisor of the Year Award Nomination Submission Form

Nominations should be submitted by December 20, 2024, by completing the online nomination form and submitting nomination materials as two PDF files:

  • File 1) Summary of Nominee's Qualifications, curriculum vitae/resume, and personal statement; and
  • File 2) Appendices to include representative materials and letters of support (40 pages maximum)

Nomination Criteria

To be eligible, a nominee must:

  • Currently serve as a professional academic or faculty academic advisor with three years of advising experience at the institution. 
  • Have completed at least three years of employment at the institution at the time of nomination.
  • Be a non-exempt or exempt employee who is employed full-time during the 2024-25 academic year.
  • Be employed at the nominating institution at the time of the final selection.
  • In the organizational structure, be at or below the level of associate/assistant vice president (or equivalent).

Criteria 

The foremost criterion for the Advisor of the Year Award is an overall excellence in academic advising and will be evaluated on the evidence of qualities and practices that distinguish the nominee as an outstanding professional academic advisor or faculty academic advisor including: 

  • Strong interpersonal skills 
  • Availability to advisees, faculty, or staff 
  • Frequency of contact with advisees 
  • Appropriate referral activity 
  • Use and dissemination of appropriate info sources 
  • Evidence of student success rate, by advisor, or department 
  • Meeting advisees in informal settings 
  • 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 advising in 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 skills 
  • Institutional recognition of nominee for outstanding advising 
  • Participation in and support of intrusive advising to build strong relationships with advisees 

Advisor of the Year Award Submission Requirements

It is the responsibility of the nominator to gather and submit all required documents. A student nominator, however, may request that this responsibility be given to an administrator/staff member. Self-nominations are not eligible. 

  • A summary of the Nominee’s Qualifications- In this key piece, the nominator should summarize the extent to which the nominee meets the award criteria, citing letters of support, data, or other materials illustrative of exemplary performance as an advisor.  How does this nominee consistently go beyond expected job duties to provide outstanding advising?  
  • Curriculum vitae or resume (supplied by the nominee’s department chair or director). Please limit entries to material that pertains directly to academic advising, presenting relevant information from the nominee’s overall resume/vitae.  Please include a current position description with a list of job responsibilities and the percentages of time spent in each area of responsibility. 
  • A personal statement that includes the nominee's advising philosophy.  Resources on creating your advising philosophy. 
  • Appendices (not to exceed 40 pages) – includes representative materials and letters of support and submitted through online application as one PDF file. 
    • Representative materials developed by the nominee such as articles published, resources and tip sheets created for students, training materials for faculty/staff, presentations given, etc.  These materials should show how the nominee has gone above and beyond regular advising job duties to meet a level of outstanding work. 
    • Three Letters of Support (not to exceed two pages, 12 pt. font). 
      • One letter from an advisee.
      • One letter from an administrator. 
      • One letter from a colleague. 

Community College & Technical College of Applied Technology (TCAT):  

  • LEVEL 1: Each community college/TCAT selects one finalist for each award (40)
  • LEVEL 2: Institutional nominees are sent to a Review Committee to select the top 3 community college/TCAT finalists  
  • LEVEL 3: Three finalists attend a virtual final interview in February 2025. 

 

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