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Dear Barbara,
Don't forget to register for NACADA's April webinar on or before April 4, 2017.
In Nudging Students to Success: The Integration of Academic Advising and Motivational Psychology,
presenters from past highly-rated NACADA conferences come together to address this question:
How do academic advisors effectively motivate students to take advantage of student success offices and academic planning tools? Despite the fact that most higher education institutions now offer
a wealth of student success resources, survey data suggests that these offices are under-utilized by students.
Presenters will discuss the micro and macro factors that contribute to this issue, and will argue that academic advisors play an essential role in the solution. Utilizing techniques found in
Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness," advisors are able to nudge students into making good decisions by altering predictable behavior
through incentives such as intentional acts of persuasion and guidance to produce outcomes while maintaining a student's agency.
For more information and to register for this webinar, visit
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/Web-Events/Web-Events-Coming/Web-Event-April-2017.aspx.
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