Excerpts from Terese Pratt's Reflection on the NACADA Region X Conference

May 2013 – Tucson Arizona

The theme for this year’s NACADA Region X conference was “Advising Under the Stars”.   This theme reflects that fact that the location of the conference, Tucson, is considered to be the astronomy capital of the U.S.  This title also seems appropriate to me when considering the conference presentations that I attended.  In each case presenters took a broad and expansive view of the subjects they covered and did an excellent job tying in their specific topic to the underlying philosophy and goals of advising.

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Published on NACADA's Academic Advising Today: Advisors on Location: Expanding Advisors' Role in International Education

Vickie Morgan and Terese Pratt , University of Utah

Higher education in the United States is going global. U.S. colleges and universities are eager to increase their involvement in international education and many exciting new programs have sprung up at institutions across the country. These programs serve as access points for an increasing number of interested students from abroad. 671,616 international students studied in the U.S. last year, and the number of new international students (those studying in the U.S. for the first time) went up 16% from the previous year (Witherell and Soman, 2009).