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2012
Appreciative
Advising
Institute
July 28-31, 2012
Charleston, SC
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You are enthusias cally invited to
par cipate in the
2012 Apprecia ve Advising
Ins tute
in Charleston, South Carolina.
Building on the excitement and momentum from the
2011 Appreciative Advising Institute last year in Las
Vegas, the 2nd Appreciative Advising Institute will
be held in historic Charleston, SC July 28-31, 2012.
This highly interactive and hands-on institute will
be action-packed and full of practical suggestions
for translating the theory of Appreciative Advising
into practice. Steeped in the tenets of positive
psychology, Appreciative Inquiry, and motivational
theory, Appreciative Advising is positively impacting
student retention and outcomes at various institutions
across the country. Additionally, a qualitative research
study has demonstrated that advisors who adopt the
Appreciative Advising framework report enhanced
effectiveness as professionals, stronger relationships
with their students, as well as a positive impact on
their personal relationships with co-workers, children,
spouses, and friends (Howell, 2010).
The Appreciative Advising Institute is intentionally
designed to teach participants the theoretical structure
of Appreciative Advising AND to provide skills
training in implementing this framework. Unlike
most conferences, there will be ample opportunity for
attendees to extend theory to practice. Participants
will learn how to use the six phases of Appreciative
Advising: Disarm, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver,
and Don’t Settle to help their students optimize their
educational experiences and to help participants
optimize their educational experiences. Participants
will have the opportunity to reflect on their own goals
and dreams to optimize their own lives.
“I really enjoyed the hands-on
approach. It was so nice to work with
and learn from the other advisors at
the Institute. I greatly appreciate the
willingness of the facilitators to adapt
the conversations and structures to
meet my needs as a participant.”
- 2011 Appreciative Advising
What is Appreciative Advising?
Institute Participant
Appreciative Advising is the intentional
collaborative practice of asking positive, openended
questions that help students optimize
their educational experiences and achieve their
dreams, goals, and potentials. See http://www.
appreciativeadvising.net for a complete list of
more than 40 books and articles that document
how this framework is being utilized throughout
the country.
What are the six phases of Appreciative
Advising?
DISARM involves making a positive first impression
with students and allaying any fear or suspicion
they might have of meeting with the advisor.
DISCOVER is spent continuing to build rapport
with students and learning about the students’
strengths, skills, and abilities.
DREAM involves uncovering students’ hopes and
dreams for their futures.
DESIGN make their hopes and dreams come
true.
DELIVER is the implementation phase where
students carry out their plan and the advisor’s
role is to support them as they encounter
roadblocks.
DON’T SETTLE involves challenging the students
to achieve their full potential.

Who Should Attend this Conference?
Anyone who works with people! Specifically,
professional and faculty advisors will discover
ideas that they can take back to their offices
and implement immediately. Student affairs
professionals and administrators from across
campus will take away just as many useful skills
and tools as an academic advisor!
Why Should You Attend this Conference?
Given the increased pressure on higher education
institutions to increase their student retention
rates as well as significant decreases in funding
revenues, it is clear that the status quo is no longer
a defendable position. What these challenging
times demand of higher education administrators
is a revolutionary approach to student success.
Appreciative Advising is that revolutionary
approach, focusing on the very best our students
have to offer. This Institute will reignite your
passion for empowering students and your
enthusiasm will be contagious!
How will I benefit from attending this Institute?
• You will get a hands-on learning opportunity
to develop Appreciative Advising skills.
• You will receive an Appreciative Advising tool
kit that you can take back to your office to
use with your students and to share with your
colleagues.
• You will have the opportunity to learn from,
work with, and be inspired by, the top
Appreciative Advising professionals in the
world.
• You will learn how to revolutionize relationships
with your students, family members, friends,
and others.
• You will have the opportunity to interact and
network with professionals from across higher
education.
• You will have the opportunity to make a
difference!
How is the Appreciative Advising Institute Different
from other Conferences and Institutes?
• Less lecturing, more doing!
• Opportunity to build substantive relationships
with the top Appreciative Advising professionals
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as well as with colleagues from throughout the
country.
Small groups allow participants to practice new
skills and techniques.
You will leave the conference with practical skills
and strategies that you can immediately put to
use when you return.
A fun, energizing atmosphere that will help you
remember why you wanted to work in higher
education. You will leave Charleston refreshed,
revitalized, and recommitted to student success!
Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance
This is an outline of the actual conference schedule,
and it may be adjusted as necessary. You will
receive a copy of the program when you pick up
your materials at the conference.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
2:30 - 3:30 pm Registration
3:30 - 6:00 pm General Session
Sunday, July 29, 2012
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am Disarm General Session
9:30 - 10:00 am Break
10:00 - 11:20 am Disarm Small Groups
11:20 - 11:30 am Transition Time
11:30 - 12 Noon Round Robin
12 Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm Discover General Session
2:00 - 2:30 pm Break
2:30 - 3:35 pm Discover Small Groups
3:45 - 4:00 pm Transition Time
4:00 - 4:45 pm ADVISE! Session
Monday, July 30, 2012
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am Dream General Session
9:30 - 10:00 am Break
10:00 - 11:20 am Dream Small Groups
11:20 - 11:30 am Transition Time
11:30 - 12 Noon Round Robin
12 Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 pm Design General Session
2:00 - 2:30 pm Break
2:30 - 3:35 pm Design Small Groups
3:45 - 4:00 pm Transition Time
4:00 - 4:45 pm ADVISE! Session
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am Deliver & Don’t Settle
General Session
9:30 - 10:00 am Break
10:00 - 12 Noon Deliver & Don’t Settle
Small Groups
12 Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch/Wrap-Up Session

Institute Faculty
Jennifer L. Bloom
Jenny is a Clinical Professor
and Director of the Master’s
degree program in the Higher
Education and Student Affairs
Program at the University
of South Carolina. Prior
to her appointment at the
University of South Carolina
in August 2007, she served as
the Associate Dean for Student Affairs & the Medical
Scholars Program at the University of Illinois College
of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Bloom was
elected to serve as the 2007-08 President of the
National Academic Advising Association (NACADA).
She has co-authored 12 articles, three book chapters,
and four books – Career Aspirations & Expeditions:
Advancing Your Career in Higher Education
Administration (2003), The Appreciative Advising
Revolution (2008), Appreciative College Instruction:
Becoming a Force for Positive Change in Student
Success Courses (2011) and Increasing Persistence:
Research-based Strategies for College Student Success
(2012). In addition, she has presented her work at
over 160 conferences and U.S. and Canadian higher
education institutions.
Wes Habley
Wes Habley is Principal
Associate and Coordinator
of ACT’s Office of State
Organizations. He received
his BS in music education and
M.Ed. in student personnel
from the University of Illinois-
Urbana/Champaign, and
his Ed.D.from Illinois State
University in educational administration. Prior to joining
ACT, Habley directed advising programs at Illinois State
University and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
With Jenny Bloom and Steve Robbins, Habley recently
published Increasing Persistence: Research-based
Strategies for College Student Success (2012) . He is coeditor
of both the first (2000) and the second (2008)
editions of Academic Advising: a comprehensive
handbook and the author of publications on four
of ACT’s National Surveys of Academic Advising
and two national retention surveys (What Works in
Student Retention). Habley is a charter member of
NACADA and has served the association in numerous
roles including president and treasurer. He originated
the NACADA Summer Institute on Academic Advising
in 1987 and in 2006 the NACADA Summer Institute
Scholarship was named in his honor. He is also the
recipient of NACADA’s awards for Outstanding
Contributions to the Field of Academic Advising
and Service to NACADA. Habley has served as a
consultant/speaker/workshop leader at more than
130 colleges in the U.S., the Middle East, and Canada.
Bryant L. Hutson
Bryant L. Hutson is Associate
Director for the University
Teaching and Learning
Center at the University
of North Carolina at
Greensboro (UNCG). He
facilitates the professional
development of faculty and
staff to enhance the quality
of teaching, learning and advising. While serving as
the Associate Director for Student Academic Services
at UNCG, he oversaw advising programs and led
the effort in developing and implementing the
Appreciative Advising Inventory. The office received
the Noel-Levitz Retention Excellence Award in 2004
and 2009 and the NACADA Outstanding Advising
Program Award in 2004 for programs based on
appreciative advising. In addition to co-authoring
The Appreciative Advising Revolution(2008) and
Appreciative College Instruction: Becoming a Force
for Positive Change in Student Success Courses
(2011), he has made more than 70 conference
presentations, and has published several articles in
peer-reviewed journals on academic advising, student
retention, and especially the use of assessments
to enhance the quality of student success efforts.
“I’m so appreciative that I fi nally
have a language to use to apply
techniques that I have been using
all along, but also a framework to
utilize and enable me to improve
on my approach to advising.”
- 2011 Appreciative Advising
Institute Participant

Ye He
Ye He is Assistant Professor
in the Teacher Education
and Higher Education
Department at the
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro (UNCG).
She currently serves as
the English-as-a-Second-
Language (ESL) teacher
education program coordinator and advises both
undergraduate and graduate students. She has been
actively involved in international exchange programs
and works closely with international students and
faculty. Her research focuses on the promotion of
strength-based culturally responsive practices in
education. She has presented regularly at national
and international conferences and has co-authored
15 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapters,
and 3 books – The Appreciative Advising Revolution
(2008), Developing Critical Cultural Competence:
A Guide for 21st Century Educators (2011), and
Appreciative College Instruction: Becoming a Force
for Positive Change in Student Success Courses(2011).
Joe Murray
Joe Murray has served as
the Director of Academic
Advising and Retention
Services at Miami University’s
Hamilton Campus since
1992. He earned both
a Bachelor of Science in
Engineering and a Master of
Science in Human Resource
Management degrees from Purdue University. He
has helped to develop and refine the Appreciative
Advising Inventory and been part of a national task
force aimed at advancing the concept of Appreciative
Advising. Joe works tirelessly to help students
that are traditionally underrepresented in higher
education. He has advocated for new legislation to
change Ohio laws and operating policies to increase
access to higher education for Ohio’s Lower Income/
Disadvantaged Youth and Foster Care Alumni. He
has served as the Co-Chair of the First-Generation
College Student Interest Group for the National
Academic Advising Association (NACADA) from
2007 until 2012. He has presented numerous times at
both NACADA and NASPA. Most recently, he served
on the faculty for the 2010 national conference on
Academic Advising Strategies to Increase Persistence
and for the 2011 Appreciative Advising Institute.
Claire Robinson
Claire Robinson is the
Associate Director of the
Student Success Center at
the University of South
Carolina (USC) and has
directed the academic
success coaching program
at USC since 2007. Using
the Appreciative Advising
framework, Claire trains
graduate students who serve as ACE Coaches within
the Academic Centers for Excellence (ACE) offering
individualized student support on campus. Claire has
consulted at several institutions on academic success
coaching, succeeded in getting the ACE program
CRLA level three certified, and awarded program
winner of the 2009 NASPA Excellence Bronze Award
in academic support. Claire also co-authored the
book Appreciative College Instruction: Becoming a
Force for Positive Change in Student Success Courses
and teaches a section of a freshmen seminar course.
Amanda Cuevas
Amanda Cuevas serves as
Director of the Frederik
Meijer Office of Fellowships
at Grand Valley State
University (GVSU). Amanda
appreciatively advises
students who aspire to
compete for nationally
prestigious scholarships and
fellowships. She previously served as Pre-Professional
Advisor in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Academic Advising Center at GVSU and as Assistant
Dean for Student Affairs and the Medical Scholars
Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC), one of the nation’s largest MD/
PhD Programs. Amanda has also developed and
taught first-year seminars infusing the Appreciative
Advising Framework. Amanda holds a B.A. in Speech
Communication-Organizational Communication
track with Honors from the University of Texas-Pan
American, M.A. in Speech Communication with
emphases in organizational communication, training
and development, and student affairs from Texas State
University, and is pursuing her doctorate in Higher
Education Leadership at Azusa Pacific University.

Erin Konkle
Erin is a doctoral student at
the University of Minnesota
in Organizational Leadership,
Policy, and Development
where she works as a
Graduate Research and
Teaching Assistant. Previously
she served as Administrative
Director of the Office for
Optimizing Educational Experiences at the University
of South Carolina where she developed an online
course, created an advisor certification system,
and developed and implemented the Appreciative
Advising Institute. Erin now words as a consultant
for oe2 and institutions using Appreciative Advising in
Student Affairs. Erin also worked for the Department
of Student Life at the University of South Carolina. Erin
began her career as a social worker with Big Brothers
Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania coordinating
University partnerships.
Rob Freidhoff
Rob has spent the past 9 years
advising at Grand Valley State
University. In his current
role as Student Services
Coordinator for the Padnos
College of Engineering and
Computing, Rob integrates
appreciative advising on
a daily basis. In addition
to academic advising, Rob is interested in
educational technology and is assisting in the creation
of the online Appreciative Advising Certificate course
which will be offered Fall 2012 through the University
of South Carolina. Rob received his B.S. In Health
Sciences and M.Ed. in Adult and Higher Education,
both from Grand Valley State University.
“The best professional development
experience I have ever had. The
faculty made me feel like what
I do matters and I feel like I
have a new network of friends.”
- 2011 Appreciative Advising
Institute Participant
Accommodations
Named for General
Francis Marion, the
“Swamp Fox” of the
American Revolution,
the Francis Marion
Hotel opened in 1924 as
the largest and grandest
in the Carolinas. It was
originally built by local
investors at a cost of $1.5 million from plans by
noted New York architect W.L. Stoddard, who also
built the gracious Poinsett Hotel in Greenville, SC.
Throughout the years, many notable historic and
famous clientele enjoyed the hotel’s full service
and convenient location. In 1996, an extensive
restoration earned the hotel the esteemed National
Trust Award and once again the Francis Marion
opened its doors as Charleston’s Grand Hotel.
Today, our traditional services continue to provide
doorman and bell service, concierge, valet parking,
room service, wireless Internet services, business
center, newsstand, gift shop, Starbucks and a wellequipped
fitness center. Guests can enjoy classic
Southern cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner
in The Swamp Fox Restaurant & Bar, a Charleston
restaurant, known for its artfully prepared dishes
using local farm fresh ingredients. Or simply relax
with cocktails and jazz piano music in The Swamp
Fox Bar. The hotel also offers complete spa services
at the on-site Spa Adagio.
Few hotels in the
Historic District offer
visitors an opportunity
to immerse themselves
in Charleston’s past
and present with such
convenience. Our
exceptional location
provides guests with an easy walk to an array
of shops, restaurants, antiques and attractions,
including the South Carolina Aquarium, Charleston
Harbor Tours, College of Charleston and the
Charleston Visitor Center.
To make your reservation, call 877-756-2121. To
receive the special group rate of $129.00 ask for
the “Appreciative Advising Rate.” Be sure to call
and secure your room before June 27, 2012; after
this date, the rooms and rate will be based on
availability.

Pre-Registration deadline: June 29, 2012!
Please complete the Participant Registration Form (below) and mail with payment to: 2012 Appreciative Advising
Institute, USC College of Education, Wardlaw 252, Columbia, S.C., 29208. Payment may be made by check or credit
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registrations can be completed by fax transmission. Cardholder signature is required on the registration form in order to
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