Moore elected Student Athletes Chair for NACADA
Lynda Moore
The director of the University Academic Advising Center at Mississippi State is assuming a leadership role with a national professional organization. Lynda Moore has been elected as the Student Athletes Chair for NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. She will assume this leadership role at the end of the 2019 NACADA Annual Conference, which will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, in October, and then serve in the position until October 2021.
NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising was chartered as a non-profit organization in 1979 to promote quality academic advising and professional development of its membership to ensure the educational development of students. Since that beginning, NACADA has grown to over 14,000 members consisting of faculty members, professional advisors, administrators, counselors, and others in academic and student affairs concerned with the intellectual, personal, and vocational needs of students.
In addition, NACADA is the representative and advocate of academic advising and those providing that service to higher education.
NACADA hosts an annual conference each fall that has attracted over 4,000 attendees, as well as 10 regional conferences, and intensive study of advising through Administrators' and Assessment Institutes, special topic seminars, and two Academic Advising Summer Institutes held annually.
NACADA publishes a scholarly journal, a quarterly e-publication, and occasional special publications, books, and monographs. NACADA offers advising training DVDs, webinars and CDs, manages a consultants and speakers service, offers member career services, funds research grants, sponsors an awards program, grants scholarships, and supports commissions and interest groups to address important academic advising issues.
NACADA provides a network and professional identity for the thousands of faculty, full-time advisors, and administrators whose responsibilities include academic advising.
Learn more at www.nacada.ksu.edu.
