Tracey D. Ford, director of the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) at North Carolina A&T State Univesity and Regina Artis, assistant director of CAE, presented two concurrent sessions at the 2012 National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) annual Conference in Nashville, Oct. 4-7.

Their presentation, “I Declare: Strategies to Increase Timely Major Declarations,” was a Commission on Undecided/Exploratory Students (CUES) sponsored presentation and recognized as one of the top four proposals in the CUES category. 

The presentation outlined the strategies CAE used to increase timely major declarations of undecided students over the last five years from 222 in 2007-08 to 472 in 2011-12. More than 200 people attended this session and Ford and Artis were acknowledged at the CUES meeting during the conference and will receive a certificate for this distinction.