Abstract
This chapter offers the Integrated Model for Program Development to the academic advising community as a tool for advancing a program from an idea to a reality. It shares with academic advising administrators a model for comprehensive program design as well as examples that support use and understanding. The program planning stage reorients the program from a broad, comprehensive view to specific details. The chapter begins by defining program development and its history, followed by a brief review of the program development literature that has informed the development of practice for the past 50 years. Based on the literature review and benchmarking, the working committee/program developer will match a theoretical foundation to needs for program structure. The Practice-to-Theory-to-Practice model emphasizes the need to consider the context of one's student characteristics and one's environmental characteristics from theoretical perspectives to determine how best to translate theory into practice.