Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising (Nacada: the Global Community for Academic Advising)

Co-published with NACADA

A large and growing number of academic advisors are interested in researching and publishing scholarly inquiry in academic advising. Since the first edition of this book was published, the scope of relevant inquiry has widened and deepened, and public attention and accountability is at an all-time high. This second edition of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising provides scholar-practitioners with methodological perspectives from each of the major ways of knowing: the social sciences, including qualitative, quantitative, and now mixed methods approaches; the arts; the humanities; and the natural sciences. This book is a vade mecum for researchers in academic advising to formulate research questions, structure research, point to useful theoretical and methodological approaches, guide analysis, and help find publication outlets. Authors from a multitude of backgrounds seek to raise the level of discourse about academic advising, to illustrate its history, to reflect on how research can foster new perspectives, and to connect with and foster social justice, internationality, and inclusivity. This volume will assist those who seek to push back the frontiers of knowledge in the field, because it serves as a handbook for advising scholars, whatever their epistemological, theoretical, axiological, and methodological predilections. As for practitioners, this book “raises the bar” and conveys to even non-researching practitioners that scholarly inquiry in academic advising is a desirable avenue to professional development that must inform their practice.

Dr. Peter L. Hagen is Associate Dean of General Studies and Director of the Center for Academic Advising (Retired) at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. He was the founding Chair of the National Academic Advising Association’s Theory and Philosophy of Academic Advising Commission, served as Guest Editor of the NACADA Journal for its Fall 2005 issue, and was a member of the task force that wrote “The Concept of Academic Advising”. For NACADA he currently serves on the Publications Advisory Board, and is co-editor of the NACADA Review. He won the 2007 Virginia Gordon Award for Service to the Field of Advising. He is the author of The Power of Story: Narrative Theory in Academic Advising published by NACADA in 2018 and gave the keynote address at the NACADA Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ, that same year.

Dr. Craig M. McGill is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs at Kansas State University. He teaches primarily for the masters and doctoral degree programs in Academic Advising. McGill holds masters degrees in Music Theory (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Academic Advising (Kansas State University), and a doctorate in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (Florida International University). Prior to his arrival to Kansas State University (in summer 2020), he was a primary-role academic advisor for nearly a decade at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2009-2012) and Florida International University (2012-2018) and then transitioned to a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of South Dakota. He is a qualitative researcher with an emphasis on professional identity, professionalization, feminist, queer and sexuality studies, and social justice. McGill is an active member of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, having served a variety of roles over the past decade.

Dr. Samantha S. Gizerian is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Veterinary Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University, as well as the academic advisor for more than 200 Neuroscience students per year. She received her BS in Biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and her PhD in Neurobiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include developmental neuroscience, program assessment, STEM pedagogy, and building diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She was the recipient of the NACADA Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2016, is a member of the NACADA Journal Editorial Board, and previously served as Chair of the NACADA Faculty Advising Community.

Dr. Wendy G. Troxel is the Director of the NACADA Center for Research at Kansas State University, and an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the PhD in Leadership in Academic Advising program in the Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs (SECSA). She teaches graduate level classes in research methods, assessment of academic advising, and supports the scholarly work of graduate students and NACADA members. Her research interests related to academic advising focus on evidence of student learning and growth throughout the critical transitions of higher education, the context of commitment and support for scholarly advising, and equitable assessment techniques in and out of the classroom. She earned her doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), with special emphases in both educational research and education law.