Academic Counselors Association
Awards

ACA Award Winners 2024-2025 

Staff Scholarship Awards

🏆 Chelsea Cowan, Cockrell School of Engineering

🏆 Dr. Allison McNamara, Cockrell School of Engineering

ACA Awards

🎉 Dedication to Students

• • Cassadie Charlesworth, Senior Academic Advisor, College of Liberal Arts

🎉 Service to Advising

• • Brittney Outlaw, Academic Advising Coordinator, Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering​

🎉 Initiative to Create Positive Change​

• • Group nomination: Bethany Bell, Jason Andres, Sara Gore, and John Knapp, ​Office of the Registrar & Enterprise Technology – Enterprise Platforms​

VICK Award Winners 2024-2025

Created in 1992, the Texas Exes’ James W. Vick Award for Academic Advising is presented each spring to academic advisors who have had an effective, positive influence on the educational experience of university students. Students nominate academic advisors from across campus and a student selection committee determines the recipients. New honorees join former recipients at a luncheon to celebrate academic advising and to receive a certificate and a monetary award.

• Chester Slimp, Moody College of Communication
  
  

• Cassadie Charlesworth, College of Liberal Arts
  
  

• Cortni Oluleye, College of Natural Sciences
  
  

• Tracy Demchuk, School of Nursing
  
  

• David DeVine, College of Liberal Arts

NACADA Awards 2023-2024

Each year since 1984, the National Academic Advising Association has recognized individuals across the country who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising and programs that document innovative and/or exemplary practices resulting in improvement of academic advising services.

• Electrical and Computer Engineering for Outstanding Advising Program

• Chris Connelly for Outstanding Advisor

• Kayla Ford for Outstanding Advising Administration

• Veronica Vasquez for Pacesetter Award