Overview
Angela Scott is an Academic Advisor in the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts (LAS) & Sciences Advising Center at Wichita State University. She advises all majors within LAS with particular interest supporting students across colleges make critical decisions regarding major, career and next steps.
Angela believes student success is sustained through deeper self-awareness and meaningful community relationships. As certified Academic Life Coach (ACC) and certified True Colors Facilitator, she cultivates and maintains affirming spaces for students: to question and explore, gain empowering perspectives; build confidence in choice, direction, and decision-making; identify and accomplish goals.
Angela is motivated by a desire to promote creative and adaptive responses to the many stressors and challenges students experience. Her personal and professional advising philosophy is inspired by a desire to reflect and reciprocate the goodness in humanity: Ubuntu!
Information
Academic Advising, Undecided/Exploratory Students, Career Advising, Academic Life Coaching
Major/Career Pathways, student success, coaching in academic settings
Conference Presentations
Scott, A; Brozek, K. (March 2019) Connecting Undecided/Exploratory Students to Majors & Careers. NACADA Region 7 Advising Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Scott, A. (November 2011) Keeping Your Righteous Mind: Locating the Authentic Self on the Journey to Becoming Who You Already Are. Workshop Presentation at the 2011 UMOJA VII Conference and Indaba. Sacramento, CA.
Scott, A. (July 2011). Assessing the Impact of a School-based Girls’ Empowerment Program. Poster Presentation at the Association of Black Psychologists 43rd Annual International Convention. Arlington, VA.
Scott, A. (June 2011). Social support, self-efficacy and school sense of community: an exploratory study of risky behaviors and adolescent girls in a gender based program. Poster Presentation at the 2011 Society for Research and Action Biennial Conference. Chicago, IL.
Kirk, Chris, Brown, Kyrah, Scott, Angela. (June 2011). Multiple paths to community: a person centered analysis of student connection on campus. Symposium at the 2011 Society for Research and Action Biennial Conference. Chicago, IL.
Scott, A. (August 2009). The school to prison pipeline. Presentation to the Kappa League Youth Organization. Wichita, KS.
PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
Kyrah K. Brown, Ph.D. & Angela Scott ,M.A. (January, 2017) Implementing an African-centered community education program: Lessons Learned in Community Psychology Practice. THEory into ACTion. A Bulletin of New Developments in Community Psychology Practice
Chris M. Kirk, Rhonda K. Lewis, Kyrah Brown, Brittany Karibo, Kari Nilsen, & Angela Scott Toward a Model of Student Empowerment and Empowering Academic Settings. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice (online). http://www.gjcpp.org
Chris Michael Kirk, Rhonda K. Lewis, Kyrah Brown, Brittany Karibo, Angela Scott, Elle Park (January 13, 2015). The Empowering Schools Project: Identifying the Classroom and School Characteristics That Lead to Student Empowerment. Youth and Society 0044118X14566118.
Scott, A & Edwards, M. (Eds) (2012). The State of African Americans in Kansas. The Kansas African American Affairs Commission (online). KAAAC.GOV.
Kirk, Chris M., Lewis, Rhonda K., Scott, Angela, Wren, Denise, Nilsen, Corinne and Colvin, Deltha. (November 2011). Exploring the educational aspirations–expectations gap in eighth grade students: implications for educational interventions and school reform. Educational Studies 1(13), pp1-13
2023 NACADA Region 7 Conference - Best of Conference for presentation "Put me in Coach, I'm ready to Advise!"
2022 KAAN Conference - Best of KAAN for presentation "Put me in Coach, I'm ready to Advise!"
2021 Student Governement Association Academic Advisor of the Year. The purpose of this award is to acknowledge and recognize a Wichita State University academic advisor who has demonstrated the qualities representative of outstanding student advising.
2021 the TRIO Disability Support Services Lighthouse Award. This award is given to a WSU staff member who collaborates with our program and supports our students.
2019 KAAN Conference - Best of KAAN for presentation "Connecting Undecided/Exploratory Students to Majors and Careers
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Kansas Academic Advising Network (KAAN) - Membership Chair 2022-present
Fairmount College Staff Council - member 2022-present
NACADA - active member
Reorganizing Member of The Advising Network (TAN) - 2016-2020