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Education Advisory Board

McGill is a member of the Education Advisory Board. This gives the McGill community (students, faculty, and staff) access rights to the following key areas.

Within each area of concentration, EAB publishes best practices studies containing strategies and ideas pertaining to specific issues that have been implemented within other universities. These studies are available to everyone at McGill and are searchable on the EAB website.

• University Business Executive Roundtable
• University Leadership Council Academic Affairs & Research
• Student Affairs Leadership Council
• Continuing, Professional and Online Education

Here are the EAB registration steps:

1. Go to www.eab.com and click on member login in the top left corner
2. On the bottom left of the drop-down box click the link that says “New User?”
3. Select Canada as the location of your organization and click “Go to Step 2”
4. Select McGill University from the list of organizations  and click “Go to Step 3”
5. Enter your personal information, create a password and click “Submit”
6. A confirmation code will be sent to your professional e-mail. Retrieve that code and enter it on the next screen and click “Confirm”
7. You are now registered with the Educational Advisory Board

Resouces hosted on the EAB website:

• Developing a Collaborative Advising Practice
• The Future of Academic Advising: Integrating Academic and Career Advising
• Breaking the Trade-Off Between Cost and Customization

Advising Resources

• Advising standards and values (NACADA)
• Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources (NACADA)
• Components of an effective advising program (Stanford University)
• Definitions of advising (NACADA)
• List of Canadian universities and colleges (Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada)
• List of U.S. universities and colleges (University of Texas at Austin)

• "Academic Advising As Learning: 10 Organizing Principles” (NACADA)

Publications

• Academic Advising Today
• Canadian Journal of Counselling (University of Calgary)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Mentor: an academic advising journal (Penn State University)
• NACADA Journal