{"id":12318,"date":"2015-05-04T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:01:51","slug":"cos-advisors-receive-national-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/cos-advisors-receive-national-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"COS Advisors Receive National Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacada.ksu.edu\/Community\/Regions\/Region-4\/Awards-Recipients.aspx\">NACADA<\/a>, a globally recognized academic advising professional organization, honored <a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.cos.ucf.edu\/people\/kox-karen\/\">Karen Cox <\/a>of the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.cos.ucf.edu\/\">department of psychology\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/communication.cos.ucf.edu\/person\/rebecca-morales\/\">Rebecca Morales <\/a>of the <a href=\"http:\/\/communication.cos.ucf.edu\/\">Nicholson School of Communication <\/a>as\u00a0 recipients of their Region 4 Outstanding Advising Award. Cox and Morales were honored at the NACADA Region 4 conference in April hosted by Auburn University.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12319\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/Karen-Cox.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12319\" class=\"wp-image-12319\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/Karen-Cox-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Karen-Cox\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/Karen-Cox-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/Karen-Cox-299x412.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/Karen-Cox.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Cox<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cox accepted the award in the category of \u201cAcademic Advising \u2013 Advising Program\u201d on behalf of the\u00a0UCF Psychology Advising Center.\u00a0\u00a0The Psychology Peer\u00a0Advising Internsip won for Outstanding Award Program and received a Certificate of Merit at the national\u00a0level.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12320\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/rebecca-morales.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12320\" class=\"wp-image-12320\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/rebecca-morales-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Morales\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/rebecca-morales-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2015\/05\/rebecca-morales.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Morales<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Morales accepted the award for \u201cAcademic Advising &#8211; Primary Role\u201d and also was a recipient of the national level award in the same category.<\/p>\n<p>According the NACADA website, recipients are selected based on over seventeen criteria including strong interpersonal skills, frequency of contact with advisees, evidence of student success rate, and the ability to engage in, promote, and support developmental advising.<\/p>\n<p>NACADA will honor this year\u2019s institutions and individual national-level recipients who have made \u201csignificant contributions to the improvement of academic advising\u201d at the 2015 NACADA Annual Conference being held on October 4-7, 2015 in Las Vegas, NV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRebecca Morales goes way beyond her job title of adviser. She is a problem solver, a partner with faculty, a recruiter of academic programs, and a shoulder to cry on when you need support for student conflict situations,\u201d remarked Joan McCain, instructor and area coordinator for the AD-PR program in the Nicholson School of Communication, after learning of the NACADA announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Morales, who was also recently presented with UCF\u2019s Excellence in Professional Advising Award, commented, \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be recognized for work that I absolutely love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACADA, a globally recognized academic advising professional organization, honored Karen Cox of the\u00a0\u00a0department of psychology\u00a0and Rebecca Morales of the Nicholson School of Communication as\u00a0 recipients of their Region 4 Outstanding Advising Award. Cox and Morales were honored at the NACADA Region 4 conference in April hosted by Auburn University. 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