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Writing Autoethnography with Purposeful Complexity Open

Robert C. Mizzi, Craig M. McGill · 2025

Autoethnography has gained significant traction as a qualitative research method in adult education, allowing scholars to intertwine personal narratives with broader social and cultural analyses. This paper explores the complexities of wri…

Social Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development Open

Debaro Huyler, Craig M. McGill · 2024

Out-of-Bounds: re-imagining the border through contemporary art narratives Open

Craig M. McGill · 2024

The materiality of national borders is changing from structures of stone and steel to networks of ideas and understandings. Containment and exclusion, while still evident, are being understood more broadly in terms of their social and cult…

Impact of Academic Advising Activities on International Students' Sense of Belonging Open

Xiao Yuan, Yang Yang, Craig M. McGill · 2023

Research on international students suggests they have a low sense of belonging at the U.S. institutions they attend. This study examined whether academic advisor’s cultural empathy, advisor-advisee rapport, and international students’ advi…

Academic Advising in Ontario: A Multiple Case Study Open

Melissa Gallo, Craig M. McGill · 2023

Although the practice of academic advising in North America has existed since the colonial era, it is only within the past century that an organized movement to shape the field has taken root. Most of the literature seeking to clarify the …

The Innerworkings of the Learning Activities in the Executive Office of a Professional Association: A Conversation With Dr. Charlie Nutt Open

Craig M. McGill · 2023

This paper seeks to better understand the workplace learning that occurs in the executive office (henceforth referred to as EO) of the NACADA: The Global Community of Academic Advising through a conversation with the association’s Executiv…

Doctoral Student Perceptions of Faculty Advisors: Four Supportive Behaviors to Promote Doctoral Completion Open

Kelly Roy, Craig M. McGill, Jennifer L. Bloom · 2023

The number of doctoral recipients per year in the United States has grown considerably, yet on average, half of all students do not persist to degree completion or far exceed the expected completion timeline. Attrition and extended time to…

Understanding the Career Management of Female Primary-Role Advisors Open

Keira Solon, Craig M. McGill, Daniel H. Jensen · 2022

In the United States, academic advising is among the highest turnover professions in the university system. Academic advisors, who work at the intersection of academics and student life, bear the brunt of increased pressures and decreased …

Letter to the Coeditors: Toward an Architectonic in Academic Advising: <i>Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising (2nd Edition)</i> Open

Craig M. McGill, Samantha S. Gizerian, Peter L. Hagen · 2022

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the second edition of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising. The first edition of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising (Hagen et al., 2010) was a breakthrough, a radical shift in thinking about …

Agents of Support for Community College Transfer Students: A Qualitative Study Open

Tony Lazarowicz, Craig M. McGill · 2022

This qualitative study explored what support community college transfer students relied upon while transitioning to a 4-year university. Investigators examined experiences of 12 full-time degree-seeking students who previously attended a c…

Increasing Access and Enhancing Transition Experiences of Transfer Students in a 2+2 Program: A Descriptive Case Study Open

Craig M. McGill, Tony Lazarowicz · 2022

Transfer agreements between institutions have existed for decades, but a newer 2+2 model provides pathways to bachelor's degree completion for students who initially applied to 4-year institutions but were not admitted. Most literature on …

An Exploration of Graduate Education in Academic Advising: A Case Study Analysis Open

Craig M. McGill, Wendy Kay Schindler, Keira Solon, Sean Bridgen, Sarah Mathews · 2022

As a field's literature base deepens, an academic discipline can emerge and lead to the development of a profession. For an academic discipline to thrive, new scholars must be trained in its specialized knowledge. Kansas State University w…

Toward a Substantive Theory of the Academic Advising Process: A Grounded Theory Open

Craig M. McGill · 2021

The role of academic advising in higher education remains largely misunderstood by university stakeholders, faculty and staff, students, and academic advisors. Many hold the simplistic view that academic advising is merely transmitting inf…

Skills and Competencies for Effective Academic Advising and Personal Tutoring Open

Craig M. McGill, Mehvash Ali, Dionne Barton · 2020

Advising/personal tutoring has moved from the fringes of higher education to the center of student success initiatives. Advising professionals serve as faculty members, mentors, student advocates, and campus leaders. Drawing upon data from…

Examining the Intersections of Privilege through Collaborative Autoethnography: Four White Men Reflect Open

Craig M. McGill, Kyle Ross, Sean Bridgen, Tony Lazarowicz · 2020

White men may wonder if they are the appropriate people to engage in conversations related to diversity, equity, and inclusion or what they can possibly do to champion for social justice. In this paper, weâ€”four White men of privilege in …

Entering Academic Advising Open

Craig M. McGill, Mark Duslak, Andrew Puroway · 2020

Primary-role academic advisors come to the field from a wide variety of social, academic, and vocational backgrounds. There are likely a wide variety of ways in which these advisors are socialized for the work of academic advising and in t…

Book Review: <i>How Qualitative Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond “Themes Emerged.”</i> by Humble, Á. M., & Radina, M. E. Open

Sunny L. Munn, Craig M. McGill · 2020

Administrator Perceptions of Academic Advisor Tasks Open

Donna J. Menke, Mark Duslak, Craig M. McGill · 2020

As higher education leaders, chief academic officers are capable of affecting the ways advising is structured and performed on college campuses, but little is known about how they regard advising. This study investigated the perceptions of…

Advising Underprepared Students Open

Craig M. McGill · 2019

Editorial: Seed Science and Technology. Volume 47 Issue 2 (2019) Open

Craig M. McGill · 2019

On Professionalization Through Scholarship: A Conversation with Dr. Leigh Shaffer (1947-2017) Open

Craig M. McGill · 2019

Craig M. McGill interviews the late Leigh Shaffer on the professionalization of academic advising and his contributions to the field. Shaffer responds to critiques of his work and how he sees the field needing to increase its scholarly bas…

The Professionalization of Academic Advising: A Structured Literature Review Open

Craig M. McGill · 2019

Practitioners and scholars of academic advising have long grappled with the professional status of the field. To better understand the characteristics of professionalization and the obstacles that stand in the way of professionalizing the …

Erotica as Public Pedagogy: Learning Identity through Popular Cultural Sources Open

Carolyn Meeker, Craig M. McGill · 2019

Women who are feminist and submissive struggle to learn about and navigate their identities. This study found popular cultural texts played a key role in identity construction for these women.

Leaders' Perceptions of the Professionalization of Academic Advising: A Phenomenography Open

Craig M. McGill · 2018

Through the professionalization process, an occupation transforms into a profession. Although much scholarship has situated academic advising as a professional endeavor, in the past few years, the authors of two papers posited that advisin…

Mandatory Continuing Education: Considerations of Dewey and Ohliger’s Work Open

Craig M. McGill, Tonette S. Rocco · 2018

This paper explores discrepancies between Mandatory Continuing Education and Dewey’s ideas on authentic learning. Dewey believed education must serve the goals of the person and the society in which s/he lives.

Professionalization of Academic Advising Open

Craig M. McGill · 2017

The purpose of this collected papers dissertation was to better understand the professionalization of academic advising. Advising can claim several features of widely-agreed upon professional components, but the question of whether academi…

Program evaluation primer: A review of three evaluations Open

Craig M. McGill, Mia R. Heikkila, Ardith Clayton-Wright · 2015

Program evaluation—a “tool used to assess the implementation and outcomes of a program, to increase a program’s efficiency and impact over time, and to demonstrate accountability” (MacDonald et. al, 2001, p. 1)—is an essential process to p…

A Study of the Relational Component in an Academic Advisor Professional Development Program Open

Mia R. Heikkila, Craig M. McGill · 2015

The purpose of the study was to investigate the significance of the relational component of academic advisor training and development in the learning opportunities of the professional development program and the advisors’ evaluation score …

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