CSPS Cohort Updates & Faculty Highlights
A student representative from each cohort was asked to provide good news in each of their cohorts’ personal and professional lives including all awards, honors and personal milestones that members of their respective cohorts have accomplished within the last year. Our hope is that the good news will encourage our readers and current students alike by being a witness to all the great things happening in your lives!
If you don’t see your name, or your cohort is not represented, please consider “spreading the news” for inclusion in the next edition of the CHDS newsletter!
The 2015 Cohort
Submitted by: Brandee Appling
- Shauna Nefos-Webb was promoted from Hall director to Area Manager at Georgia Tech.
- Taryne Mingo completed her first marathon in 2011 in Albany, Ga. and her first triathlon in August 2012. She is currently building the website for the COE Department of Language and Literacy Education’s Red Clay Writing Project and founded a writer’s workshop at South Jackson Elementary School. She is also on the Leadership Committee and was a teacher consultant for the summer institute 2011 cohort.
- William Jeff Cooper was promoted to Director of University Housing and Residence Life at Kennesaw State University. He was also awarded the Georgia Housing Officers Excellence in Housing Award in 2011.
- Brandee Appling was named the 2012 Gwinnett County Public Schools Counselor of the Year, the 2012 Georgia School Counselors Association Region 2 Middle School Counselor of the Year, and was elected to Middle School Level Chair for Gwinnett County Public Schools.
The 2014 Cohort
Submitted by: Jennifer Bussey
- Christy Winn Land was named the Georgia Middle School Counselor of the Year for the 2012-2013 academic year.
- Kim Lee Hughes presented and had a Committee Appointment for the Southern Association for Counselor Education & Supervision (SACES) in September 2012. She also facilitated a roundtable discussion at the conference with Nathaniel Brown. Kim was selected as an Emerging Leader by the American College Counseling Association (ACCA) and presented a 20-minute session titled, “The Other Identity: Queer and Questioning Women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.”
- Nathaniel Brown and Kim Lee are the co-chairs for the SACES Ethics and Professional Development Interest Network for the ACCA
- Nicole Shaub Cook was selected to present at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling Annual Critical Components Conference held in spring of this year. She also presented at the Georgia Independent Schools Association Annual Conference and was elected the 2011-2013 Southern Association for College Admissions Counseling (SACAC) Chairperson for Counselor Participation Fund Awards. She has also traveled in the last 18 months to Kenya, Alaska, the U.K., and Aruba and celebrated her first wedding anniversary in May 2012!
- Jennifer Bussey successfully implemented a pilot school-based safety program in her local school district.
The 2012 Cohort
Submitted by Ken Jackson
- Amy Hopkins Mason moved to West Virginia and is now the Director of the Academic Center for Educational Success at Alderson-Broaddus College.
- Nicole Lechene reports that she recently married her best friend, Scott Younker, on October 6, 2012 in Atlanta, Ga., and that their honeymoon to Italy is the trip she promised herself when she started the program.
Faculty Kudos
Members of the faculty are also doing great things, even outside of the wonderful contributions they are making to the program.
Most recently, Dr. Haskins was presented the Lilly Teaching Fellowship and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) Presidential Fellowship.
Dr. Singh was presented the APA Division 44 Distinguished Research Contribution to Ethnic Minority Issues award and was named a UGA Writing Fellow.