LEAD: Leadership Excellence and Advisor Development

LEAD

LEAD: Leadership Excellence and Advisor Development
Advisor certification and enrichment

In research conducted in 2007-2008 by the American College Honor Societies (ACHS) the greatest challenge mentioned by member societies was advisors.

Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society, proudly a member of ACHS, began examining this information further and found that retaining advisors, building satisfactory advisory teams, acquisition of and support for advisors and maintaining good connections between advisors and university administrators were all opportunity areas. Late in 2009 Mortar Board developed a curriculum addressing these issues.

Summer program - July 29, 2011

Program details

Mortar Board is pleased to announce that Dr. John H. Schuh will give the keynote address for the Summer 2011 LEAD program.

Professor Schuh is a leading writer and researcher on the topic of students' success in college. He is the co-author of Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter, first written in 2005 and revised in 2010. He is also co-author of Advising Student Groups and Organizations.

Dr. Schuh possesses a wealth of information and sentiment about creating the kind of environment in which students can succeed and believes strongly in the extraordinary value that good advisors of student organizations bring to students' development.

This noted author and educational leader is distinguished professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University. He holds a number of honors and distinctions in the educational community and is very pleased by the prospect of keynoting Mortar Board's advisor certification program, LEAD.

Additional presenters for this LEAD program include:

Becky Harlow, assistant director for Huskie family connections and volunteerism at Northern Illinois University, will be speaking about risk management, conflict resolution and how to utilize student affairs staff on your campus.

Pablo Malavenda, associate dean of students and advisor of the Barbara Cook chapter at Purdue University, will speak about social media, creating buzz and creating niche opportunities on campus.

Location

Chicago Marriott O’Hare
8535 West Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631

Pricing

Registration type

Registration received

Rate

Regular

On or before July 15, 2011

$245

Registration

Mortar Board chapter advisors who are also planning to attend the 2011 Mortar Board National Conference can register here:

Mortar Board chapter advisors not attending the conference and advisors from other student organizations can download a registration form here.

In 2010, the national Mortar Board Advisor Task Force piloted LEAD: Leadership Excellence and Advisor Development for advisors of all experience levels. The pilot program, held in Chicago in July 2010, promised participants that they would learn:

How to effectively advise the collegiate chapter's leadership team, the cream of the campus crop

How to cultivate relationships among a diverse group of students

How to enhance students' co-curricular education through many opportunities for teaching and interacting outside of the classroom

How to help chapter leaders apply their existing skills to the one-of-a-kind leadership situations that they face

How to enhance your own interpersonal assets to work best with millennial students

How to create and maintain a strong advisor team to help your chapter and balance your workload

Best practices in student organization advisement with topics including fundraising, member motivation, conflict resolution, risk management and more

LEAD is sponsored by the Frances Aicher Lewis Endowment of the Mortar Board National Foundation.

Why have Leadership Excellence and Advisor Development (LEAD)?
Advisors are the guides on the side of every student organization. Each chapter needs strong advisors who exemplify the leadership traits that chapter leaders must exhibit to grow and strengthen their student organization or honor society on campus. Advisors need not "go it alone." Mortar Board wants to show support for the important role of advising and help give advisors the tools to make their advising experience a rich and rewarding one.

What is a certification for advisor?
This certification program provides advisors with a credential that will be meaningful personally as well as in the workplace. Satisfactory completion entitles the advisor to claim the designation as a LEAD-certified advisor. Access to advising skills materials for completers will be accessible on Mortar Board’s special LEAD website, and continuing advisory support will be available after each program through tune-up calls, advisor chat, e-mail and web posts.

What is the price to attend?

Summer program - July 29, 2011 (8 a.m. - 3 p.m.)

Registration type	Registration received	Rate
Regular	On or before July 15, 2011	$245

The registration fee includes course of instruction and workbook, breakfast and lunch on the day of the program, and access for one year to LEAD website and tune-up calls. Lodging and transportation are not included. Registrants would qualify for lodging at the hotel property where the LEAD program takes place at the special Mortar Board room rate, depending on availability. Register now!

How can I afford to travel for this program?
We have learned that many advisors work with their supervisors to acquire time off and even monetary support for attendance at special leadership education programs. Chapter funding should also provide for an advisor's transportation to LEAD. Let's say that an advisor's employer pays for half the cost of the experience, and the advisor's Mortar Board (or other organization) chapter covers the other half; the advisor can attend at little to no cost to herself or himself.

Congratulations to Mortar Board’s inaugural class of LEAD certified organization advisors

In July, Mortar Board introduced its first-ever certification and enrichment program for chapter advisors at the 2010 Mortar Board National Conference in Chicago.
This year’s certified participants in the Leadership Excellence and Advisor Development (LEAD) program piloted by Mortar Board’s Advisor Task Force are: