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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 WRITER : Philip Lee Williams , 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu UGA FRANKLIN COLLEGE 'S PROGRAM FOR ADVISING STUDENTS NAMED WINNER OF NATIONAL OUTSTANDING TECHNOLOGY AWARD ATHENS , Ga. - A web-based advising application, developed by members of the Information Technology staff and the Office of Academic Advising and Graduation Certification in the University of Georgia 's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named winner of a national Outstanding Advising Technology Award. The Award was given by the National Academic Advising Association for SARA (Student Advising and Registration Assistant), which was developed and has been maintained by Michael Brewer of the Franklin College and Jason Orrill, now with UGA's Enterprise Information Technology Services. The honor will be presented at the Association's annual national conference in Las Vegas in October. ""One of the best things about this job is the wonderful people I get to work with," said Brewer. "It has been a pleasure to work with the staff of the Office of Academic Advising. Their professionalism and attention to detail have made this award possible." The award is part of the national group's 2005 National Awards Program for Academic Advising. "We are very proud that NACADA has recognized the collaborative efforts that Michael Brewer, the other Information Technology staff and the Office of Academic Advising and Graduation Certification have put into the development of the SARA System," said Franklin College senior academic advisor Leigh Holland, who nominated SARA for the award. "Through everyone's efforts, SARA has been finely tuned to meet the needs of our office by allowing us to create and maintain the data required for successful interactions between staff and students, beginning at orientation and continuing all the way through to graduation."Orrill designed most of the look of SARA (the graphics and colors), as well as three subsections of the site. Brewer designed the main database and programmed a large part of the site's code, including maintenance programming of Orrill's code since he left the Franklin IT group several years ago. "I'm thrilled that Michael Brewer, the SARA application and the Franklin College Office of Academic Advising and Graduation Certification have been recognized by NACADA," said Christine Miller, director of Information Technology for the Franklin College . "SARA demonstrates how effective collaboration between information technology professionals and subject matter experts can be." The SARA application was selected as one of five advising technology innovations to be honored by this award in nationwide competition this year. These resources include web sites, online tutorials, software applications, databases, DVDs and other web-based and non-web-based innovations that use technology to improve academic advising. Nominations were judged on the basis of content, interactivity, clarity and creativity. Each year, since 1983, the Association has honored individuals and institutions making significant contributions to the improvement of academic advising. The more than 8,000 members of the group consist of faculty, professional advisors, administrators, counselors and others in academic student affairs concerned with needs of students. |
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