Illinois Academic Advisors' Association
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...
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