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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: DR. JENNIFER L. BLOOM, ED.D. "THE APPRECIATIVE ADVISING REVOLUTION"
Appreciative Advising, a revolutionary advising philosophy, calls professional and faculty advisors to celebrate students’ strengths as they help advisees achieve their academic, career and life goals. Recognizing students as the heart and soul of advising, Dr. Bloom will inspire us to establish and celebrate a deeper relationship with our students through an emphasis on the intrinsic, ontological value of each student encountered. Relating this model to our own diverse Advising community, Dr. Bloom will demonstrate how the appreciative advising model can be a unifying force in the advising profession which is flexible enough to incorporate different styles and approaches to advising.
This keynote address will feature an overview of this exciting movement and focus on the important role that advising plays in student success. The six phases of Appreciative Advising – Disarm, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver, and Don’t Settle – will be defined. Dr. Bloom will also provide practical suggestions for implementing Appreciative Advising on an individual, unit and institutional level.
ABOUT DR. BLOOM
Jennifer L. Bloom, Ed.D is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Higher Education Leadership Master’s Degree Program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology at Florida Atlantic University. She is also the co-founder of the Appreciative Advising and Appreciative Education movements and co-author of five books including, The Appreciative Advising Revolution, with Dr. Bryant Hutson and Dr. Ye He from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jennifer L. Bloom, Ed.D. previously served as a Clinical Professor and Director of the Master’s degree program in the Higher Education & Student Affairs Program housed in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina (USC) from August 2007 to August 2015. Prior to USC, she served as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs & the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995.
Dr. Bloom is a co-founder of the Appreciative Advising and Appreciative Education movements. She established the annual Appreciative Advising Summer Institute, the Appreciative Education Conference, an on-line Appreciative Advising course, the process for Certifying Appreciative Advisers, and other exciting initiatives related to Appreciative Advising and Appreciative Education.
Dr. Bloom served as the 2007-08 President of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). She received the NACADA Outstanding Advising Administrator Award in 2005 and University of Illinois’ Campus Academic Professional Excellence Award in 2007. In 2008, she received the University of South Carolina’s Black Graduate Student Association’s Faculty Mentor Award. In 2011, she was named the Faculty Partner of the Year by the Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support at the University of South Carolina. From July to December 2013, Dr. Bloom and her work was featured in bi-weekly full-page ads in the Chronicle of Higher Education for ChronicleVitae – the newspaper’s new online career social media venture.
Dr. Bloom has co-authored 5 books, 4 book chapters, and 23 articles. She co-founded and serves as a section editor for the Journal of Appreciative Education (JAE). Dr. Bloom has delivered 25 webinars and 300+ presentations on her work at institutions and conferences across the country.
Closing Session: Jay Wickenden, Ph.D., Instructor , UBC Department of Chemistry, "Beyond the Myth of the Academic Disposition"
New UBC students navigate large classes and unfamiliar teaching methods. In addition, students’ views of professors may hinder their ability to thrive in their courses. Students are unfamiliar with, and harbour stereotypes of, the “professor,” while professors are unfamiliar with and harbour stereotypes of their “students.” This talk will focus on several strategies that I use to engage my students in these large learning environments, and address some of the myths of the academic disposition.
About Dr. Wickenden
Jay Wickenden is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, where he works with students in both lectures and teaching laboratories. Jay is also in charge of the Department of Chemistry’s Imagine Day program, and is a senior faculty fellow in the Science Jumpstart Program. Jay completed his undergraduate training at Western University (Hons. B.Sc., 2006), and is also a graduate of UBC (Ph.D., 2013). Jay’s research interests primarily focus on the development of curriculum used in organic chemistry lectures and teaching laboratories.