Illinois Academic Advisors' Association Home Page | About ILAAA | ILAAA Conference | Officers | Contact Us Welcome to the Illinois Academic Advisors' Association website! Welcome to the Illinois Academic Advisors' Association website. I'd like to take this opportunity to provide you with a little bit of the history and evolution of the Illinois Academic Advisors' Association. The idea of a sub-regional NACADA affiliation was conceived by a group of dedicated advising professionals in 1995. In late 1995, Illinois NACADA members were polled asking their interest in beginning a state advising association. Seventy-six percent of the respondents were in favor of forming an Illinois advising association. The First Annual State NACADA Drive-In Conference was hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Monticello, IL on November 6, 1996. Approximately eighty-four people attended this first conference. The next year Heartland Community College hosted the Second Annual State NACADA conference on November 17, 1997. In 1998, Eastern Illinois University hosted the third annual conference of what was now called the Illinois Academic Advisors' Association. The ILAAA conference in 1999 was hosted by Black Hawk College. The millennial conference in 2000 was held in Springfield by the University of Illinois in Springfield. Membership was growing and it became difficult for one school to act as host. In 2001 a consortium of central Illinois schools got together to host the sixth annual conference in Bloomington, Normal. One hundred sixty-three advising professionals attended, representing forty-three schools. In 2006, more than 200 advising professionals gathered together at the 11th Annual Illinois Academic Advisors' Association Conference at Northern Illinois University. The organization is growing great momentum. This growth is solely through the support and dedication of our membership and their home institutions. The ILAAA is now strong enough to increase and enhance the benefits provided to our members. We look forward to a very exciting future! Ann Anderson, ILAAA President It's a bad day in advising when... Your advisee apologizes for bringing her four children but explains that the babysitter wouldn't keep the kids because they have the chicken pox... Home Page :: About ILAAA :: ILAAA Conference Officers :: Contact Us Copyright 2008, Illinois Academic Advisors' Association. All rights reserved.