Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising Edition 2

Contents 

List of Figures

Foreword – Wendy G. Troxel 

Acknowledgments  

Introduction – Craig M. McGill, Samantha S. Gizerian, Peter L. Hagen 

Part I: Prolegomena to Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising 

1 – Academic Advising Scholarship: Historical and Structural Influences – Janet Schulenberg and Hilleary Himes 

2 – Theory of (and Within) Academic Advising Research and Practice – Shannon Lynn Burton, Sean Bridgen, and erin donahoe-rankin 

3 – Philosophy and Academic Advising Scholarship: Foundation, Aim, and Impact – Sarah Champlin-Scharff 

4 – Ethics in the Conduct of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising – Marc Lowenstein 

Inquiry in Practice: Robert Detwiler and Mollie Sorrell

Part II: The Conduct of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising 

5 – Generating Researchable Questions – Wendy G. Troxel 

6 – Using Quantitative Methods – Wendy G. Troxel, Lydia Kyei-Blankson, and Susan M. Campbell 

7 – Using Qualitative Methods – Tamara Coronella and Sharon A. Aiken-Wisniewski 

Inquiry in Practice: Tamara Coronella 

8 – Using Mixed Methods – Ye He and Bryant L. Hutson 

Inquiry in Practice: Shantalea Johns 

9 – Using Methods from the Humanities – Peter L. Hagen 

10 – Using Arts-Based Research Methods – Susan M. Taffe Reed 

11 – Using Methods from the Natural Sciences – Samantha S. Gizerian 

Inquiry in Practice: Shelley Price-Williams

Part III: The Dissemination of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising 

12 – The Scholarly Writing Process – Emily Thatcher Creamer, Kacee Ferrell Snyder, and Teniell L. Trolian  

Inquiry in Practice: Rhonda Dean Kyncl 

13 – Dissemination of Scholarly Inquiry – Lisa M. Rubin, Craig M. McGill, Thomas J. Grites, and Susan M. Campbell 

14 – The Research Team: Building a Scholarly Identity Through Collaborative Research in Academic Advising – Sharon A. Aiken-Wisniewski, Joshua M. Larson, Anna C. Johnson, and Jason P. Barkmeyer 

Inquiry in Practice: Mehvash Ali, Dionne Barton, and Craig M. McGill

Appendix 14A

Editors and Contributors 

Index 

Craig M. McGill

Dr. Craig M. McGill is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs at Kansas State University. He teaches primarily for the masters and doctoral degree programs in Academic Advising. McGill holds masters degrees in Music Theory (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Academic Advising (Kansas State University), and a doctorate in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (Florida International University). Prior to his arrival to Kansas State University (in summer 2020), he was a primary-role academic advisor for nearly a decade at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2009-2012) and Florida International University (2012-2018) and then transitioned to a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of South Dakota. He is a qualitative researcher with an emphasis on professional identity, professionalization, feminist, queer and sexuality studies, and social justice. McGill is an active member of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, having served a variety of roles over the past decade.

Samantha S. Gizerian

Dr. Samantha S. Gizerian is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Veterinary Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University, as well as the academic advisor for more than 200 Neuroscience students per year. She received her BS in Biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and her PhD in Neurobiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include developmental neuroscience, program assessment, STEM pedagogy, and building diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She was the recipient of the NACADA Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2016, is a member of the NACADA Journal Editorial Board, and previously served as Chair of the NACADA Faculty Advising Community.

Peter L. Hagen

Dr. Peter L. Hagen is Associate Dean of General Studies and Director of the Center for Academic Advising (Retired) at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. He was the founding Chair of the National Academic Advising Association’s Theory and Philosophy of Academic Advising Commission, served as Guest Editor of the NACADA Journal for its Fall 2005 issue, and was a member of the task force that wrote “The Concept of Academic Advising”. For NACADA he currently serves on the Publications Advisory Board, and is co-editor of the NACADA Review. He won the 2007 Virginia Gordon Award for Service to the Field of Advising. He is the author of The Power of Story: Narrative Theory in Academic Advising published by NACADA in 2018 and gave the keynote address at the NACADA Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ, that same year.