Betsy McCalla Wriggins

Keynote Speaker

Creating Connections: Integrating Academic
and Career Advising
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NACADA Past-President
Rowan University

Betsy McCalla-Wriggins is Director Emeritus of the Career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. In 1992, Betsy initiated the discussions for and then facilitated the creation of this fully integrated center. The center continues to provide academic and career advising for undeclared and change of major students as well as job search strategy advising for all students and alumni.

Betsy publishes and presents nationally on topics related to the Integration of Academic and Career Advising. In addition to numerous presentations on this topic at NACADA Annual Conferences and NACADA Summer Institutes, she co-facilitated a pre-conference entitled Academic and Career Advising: Focus on the First Year at the 2008 Annual Conference on the First Year Experience in San Francisco.In April 2007, she was one of three panelists for a National Teleconference on Academic and Career Advising: Keys to Student Success sponsored by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

Betsy served as President of NACADA from 2001-2003.