THE COUNSELING CONNECTION DEADLINES AND REMINDERS

• Deadlines Applications for May graduation were due March 15 and June 15 for August graduation.

• All paperwork for School Counseling Summer and Fall fieldwork(Practicum and Internship) is due April 1, 2005.

• Degree candidacy recommendations are due no later than Monday the last week of classes for all

  students who are completing their ninth credit this semester.

• Be sure to ask your professors for recommendations within atimely fashion.Praxis Registration The registration deadline for the April 16, 2005 test date is Tuesday, March 15, 2005.The next Praxis test date is June 11, 2005 with a May 10 deadline.

• The end of the year party for all CEdP faculty andstudents will be Tuesday, April 26, 2005 from 6:00 until 11:00. Please bring a favorite hors d'oeuvre or dessert. See you there!

• CHI SIGMA IOTA Chi Sigma Iota is an honors society that is internationally recognized. It is for individuals in the counseling profession aswell as students in counseling programs. They promote excellence inthe work place as well as in the classroom. All together there are currently 262 Chapter around the world with 43, 670 initiated members. The first year membership fee is $35.00 and a student must have taken at least 9 credit hours, and have 3.5 or better GPA. Dr.Gerard Love is the chapter faculty advisor at Slippery Rock University. Anyone interested in joining Chi Sigma Iota may contact Dr. Love with any questions

ALUMNI ROUNDTABLE

Student Personnel's Delta Alpha Chi organization hosted its first Alumni Round Table Members of Delta Alpha Chi wanted to host an event that would allow the opportunity for recent alumni of Student Personnel to come back to campus and speak with current students in the program. Delta Alpha Chi member Kate Lema organized the event.Topics of discussion included: networking, professional organizations, and incorporating theory into practice.

Speakers for the event were HeatherAchenbach, co-director of student activities and Greek life at Thiel College; Brenda Fabian, director of career services at Susquehanna University; and Carlton Scott, academic advisor at theUniversity of Pittsburgh.The event took place on February21st from 2-4 pm in the Alumni House. Snacks andrefreshments were provided.

PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL COUNSELORSASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The 2005 PSCA Annual Conference will be held April 20 to April 23, 2005 at the Penn Stater Conference Center, State College,PA. PSCA is pleased to welcome the following guest speakers: Dr. Ruby Payne, Doug Manning, Crystal Kuykendall, and Rachel Simmons.This year's theme is "Promoting Harmonyin a World of Dissonance."Slippery Rock University professor Dr. Julaine Field and Kendra Hanley, Kristen Wadding, Jodi Leung, Laura Sortore, and Jodi Bailey, five graduate students in the School Counseling program will be presenting a workshop atthe conference. The title of their presentation is "Unmasking Superwoman: Exploring Gender Roles of Middle and HighSchool Females" a creative, interactive program aimed ateducating and empowering school guidance counselors to stop gender inequalities and biases.

PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL COUNSELORSASSOCIATION WESTERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE SchoolCounselors: Fostering ResiliencyThe 2005 WesternRegional Pennsylvania School CounselorAssociation Conferencewill be held on Friday, November 4, 2005, 8:30 - 3:30 pm atSlippery Rock University.Moreinformation available athttp://www.sru.edu/pages/4971.aspASHE CONFERENCE Last Semester the Association for the Study ofHigher Education held their 29th annual conference inKansas City, Missouri.� The focus of the conference was onhow race, gender, class, and other variables such as political andeconomic factors impact higher education.In the morning on the second day of theconference Dr. Melissa Rychener did a presentation titledIntercultural Experiential Learning Through InternationalInternships: The Case of Medical Education. In light of itbeing the 50years since Brown v. Board of Education ofTopeka two of the major addresses were done by John BrooksSlaughter, the president and CEO of the National Action Council forMinorities in Engineering, and Freeman Hrabowski, President of theUniversity of Maryland. The Presidential address was titled, TheHigher Education we Choose: A Question of Balance, and GaryRoades, a Professor at the University of Arizona did thatspeech.Dr Rychener expressed that she enjoyed theconference, and she commented that, ���For students thinking abouta doctoral program in higher education this is a good conference toattend��?. Dr. Rychener shared that they also have specialreceptions for students considering doctoral education in thisfield.CEDP WINTER PARTY Picture a ski lodge, a nice cozy atmosphere, a nice hotfireplace, and food and drinks. These are all a part of the CEdPwinter party. Before classes ended for the winter break faculty andstudents got together to celebrate the end of another semester, andthe beginning of a new year. This event gives students and facultyan opportunity to become acquainted with new faces, and enjoyseeing familiar one.It appeared to be an enjoyable time for those who went to theparty. There will be another CEdP party in the future. If you didnot go to one in the past, try not to miss out on the nextopportunity. The next party will be at the ski lodge on April26th!WHO IS MS.TINSLEY?Born in Champagne, Illinois Ms. Tinsley always kept her motheron her toes always exploring her environment and anxious to learn.Later on she attended Augsburg College, a private Lutheranaffiliated college. She felt that her education was important, aswell as her spirituality and playing basketball. She playedbasketball at Augsburg, and Ms. Tinsley shares that at the time sheidentified herself as a basketball player. Ms. Tinsley shared thata woman named Anita mentored her. She brought Ms. Tinsley in heroffice and asked her what she planned on doing with her life aftercollege. At this time Ms. Tinsley had realized that she had notthought that far ahead, basketball was a big part of her identityat the time. This is when Ms. Tinsley really began to reflect onherself and who she was as a person.After she graduated from college she beganworking in their admissions office. She focused on first generationcollege students, and students of color who had little opportunityto go to college. Ms. Tinsley had personally experienced someobstacles in her quest to attend college. So she wanted to teachthem to rely on themselves in case their coaches, or teachers, orfamily members were not helping them out with the process. Pursuingher education she went to University of Iowa and obtained a Mastersin Higher Education and Administration with an emphasis in crosscultural sports counseling. She moved onto other jobs which gaveher an opportunity to mentor athletes to try to help them strivefor success in the classroom instead of solely on the court, orfield, etc.Ms. Tinsley had an opportunity to move furtheraway from her family than she ever had before. She talked to Anitaand was encouraged to spread her wings and to move to Pittsburgh.Ms. Tinsley took this advice. A couple weeks after Ms. Tinsleymoved to Pittsburgh Anita passed away. Ms. Tinsley worked at theUniversity of Pittsburgh in the Academic Support Service forAthletes, then at the University of Maryland as assistant directorof athletics. She finally decided to move back to Pittsburgh, andlanded a job working with minorities at Carnegie Melon. Findingmore of herself and her strengths she decided to go back to schoolfor her Doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision with anemphasis in cross cultural athletics. �Eventually she beganworking full time for the NationalFootball Foundation's Play It Smart Program, a school basedmentoring program that seeks to use the sport experience as avehicle to enhance the academic, athletic, career, and personaldevelopment of high school student athletes.She also had theopportunity to go to Africa to do research. She wanted to culturally modify the Play It SmartProgram and develop an intervention for diseaseprevention�for the youth in Botswana.Ms. Tinsley recently went back home and shefound out that Anita had an impact on many lives. Anita had toldMs. Tinsley that all she wanted from her was to continue to mentorothers and in essence ask students, ���What do you plan on doingwith the rest of your life?��? Ms. Tinsley shared that Anita wrotepoems and today she has them hanging up in her office. Shecommented, ���Anita is still a part of my every day life. Any day Iwonder why I am doing this I look at the poems on the wall of myoffice, and then I remember why and it helps keep me going.��?Ms. Tinsley taught a class in Diversity forthe department last semester called Counseling Diverse Populations.This semester she is teaching two sections of Human Development.Stop in and say hello!This pagewritten and created by Michelle Curry, Jodi Bailey, and KateLema