The Academic Advising Council will present seven campus advisers with awards for excellence during the spring 2025 Academic Advising Connections and Celebrations on March 14. Each year, the AAC recognizes academic advisers and faculty advisers for outstanding academic advising practices. There are additional categories for recognition of the hard work and dedication that campus academic advisers have demonstrated in the past academic year (2023-24).

Applicants are nominated by their department and or colleagues. Then the final selections are made by the Academic Advising Council from the pool of nominees. The committee looks for candidates who have overwhelming evidence of qualities and practices that include availability to students, interpersonal skills, mastery of institutional policies and procedures, appropriate referrals to campus resources, monitoring of academic progress and ongoing partnership and collaboration with colleagues and students.

The winners of the 2024 Academic Advising Awards are:

• Abbie Tanner, NACADA Outstanding New Adviser Primary Role

• Carmen Perry Gardner, NACADA Outstanding Adviser Primary Role

• Derico Setyabrata, NACADA Outstanding New Faculty Adviser

• Health Walker, NACADA Outstanding Faculty Adviser

• Meghan Miller, Innovative Advising Award

• Greg Stine, Leading with Brilliance Award

• Chloe Witt, Silo-Busting Award

About the AAC: The purpose of Academic Advising Council (AAC) and the University of Arkansas is to provide a space for primary-role advisers and faculty members to share ideas and best practices, increase institutional knowledge, inform others of the work advisers conduct on campus, advocate for and solicit resources necessary for completing stated goals and challenge each other to improve our practices in an inclusive, understanding and constructive environment. The university is committed to developing each student to his or her fullest potential. The AAC is committed to helping academic and other campus advisers develop knowledge, skills and abilities that will assist them in their professional lives. Additionally, the AAC aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between our faculty members who design and implement our undergraduate curriculum and the academic advisers that communicate these requirements to students in a meaningful way.

For more information, go to provost.uark.edu/about/committees/aac.