AUCCCD Diversity Leadership Mentoring Program Awards


Call for Nominations for the 2009 Award

The Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), in an effort to enhance diversity among directors, will offer a Diversity Leadership Scholarship to individuals who want to become counseling center directors. AUCCCD recognizes that establishing a mentoring relationship with an experienced director and networking with directors at the annual conference can provide a rich professional development experience for aspiring directors.

Qualifications:

  1. Has no prior experience as a counseling center director.
  2. Has an interest in being a counseling center director and providing leadership in a higher educational setting.
  3. Has completed at least five years experience in a clinical position (some must have been in a staff position at a counseling center).
  4. Has taken leadership on an initiative or project.
  5. Represents diversity in such areas as race/ethnicity, physical ability or sexual orientation and has had experience advancing a cultural agenda.
  6. Has experience as a supervisor (preferred).

Nature of the Scholarship:

Up to three scholarships will be awarded with up to $2000.00 each provided to support the cost of attending the 2009 Director's conference (October 24-28, 2009 in Asheville, N.C.). Scholarships recipients will co-present a diversity themed program at the conference. Each recipient will also be matched with a current director who will serve as a mentor to the recipient.

Nomination Process:

Individuals can be nominated by submitting by May 31, 2009 their vitae, two letters of support (one letter must be from the applicant's home institution director), and a statement of interest that includes:

  • How diversity has influenced their career.
  • Their experience taking leadership on an initiative or project.
  • How issues of diversity have been implemented in their work and their experience advancing a cultural agenda.

Self nominations are accepted.

Send nomination materials as electronic attachments in Microsoft Word to: Pamela Duncan

Pamela P. Duncan, Ph.D.
Director of Health and Counseling Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street Purchase, NY 10577
(914) 323-5158 and (914)323-7534

Past Recipients

2009

  • Tow Yee Yau, Cornell University
  • Lynelle Ragland, College of William and Mary
  • Angela Lee, North Carolina Central University

2008

  • Arnold (Arnie) Abels, University of Missouri at Kansas City
  • Ellen Lin, San Jose State University
  • Liz Snider, University of Buffalo

2007

  • Kendra Smith, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
  • Shari Robinson, University of Florida
  • Paul Castelino, Ohio University

2006

  • Jo-Ann Cohn, Penn State University
  • Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, University of Maryland

2005

  • Bruce Menapace, Cleveland State University

2004

  • Micky Sharma, Wright State University
    Mentor: Sylvia R. Balderrama, Vassar College
  • Selia Servín-Guerrero López, St. Edward's University
    Mentor: Denise Hayes, DePauw University

2003

  • Cyndy Boyd, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Mentor: Louise Douce, Ohio State
  • Gweneth Lloyd, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Mentor: Vivian Boyd, University of Maryland
  • Carla McCowan Alston, University of Illinois Urbana Campaign
    Mentor: ValaRay Irvin, Southern University
  • Barry Schreier, Purdue University
    Mentor: Kevin Austin, California State Institute of Technology