AUCCCD Diversity Leadership Mentoring Program Awards

Call for Nominations for the 2013 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:

We look to award three scholarships of up to $2,500.00 each to cover the costs for the recipients to attend our 2013 conference in San Diego . Scholarship 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.

Nomination Process:

Individuals can be nominated by submitting by 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.

The deadline for receipt of application materials is May 15, 2013.

Self nominations are accepted.

Send nomination materials as electronic attachments in Microsoft Word to: Mark Thompson

Mark D. Thompson, Ph.D.
Counseling & Psychological Services
Colgate University
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
315.228.7385
mdthompson@colgate.edu

Past Recipients

2012

• Dr. Christine Asidao, University of Michigan
  
• Dr. Amanda Ngola, University of Wisconsin- Madison
  
• Dr. John A. Ward, Miami University
• Dr. Vivian Yamada, University of Central Florida

2011

• Dr. Natasha Maynard, Pemba, University of Florida
  
• Dr. Rene Monteagudo, University of Illinois
  
• Dr. Karen Nakayama, Fort Lewis College

2010

• Dr. Melissa Barsch, University of Tennessee
  
• Dr. Sheri Clark, Appalachian State University
  
• Dr. Anshan Moore, Cornell University

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