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Letter from the Editors

CCAPS Newsletter
May 2006


Welcome to the spring edition of the CCAPS newsletter.  We hope that you have all had a chance to rest up after a great convention in Indianapolis, and are enjoying the spring end-of-year activities on your campuses.  This newsletter will both reflect on some of the highlights of the past convention as well as look to the coming year.

Check out the bios of this past year’s CCAPS award winners who received their honors in Indianapolis.  Congratulations to Ellen Emerson, winner of the Mid-Level Career Achievement Award, Vivian Boyd, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Counseling and Career Development Center at Georgia Southern University, winner of the agency Award of Excellence.  Announcements and nomination information for next academic year’s awards are also included.   Please note the submission deadline, October 3, 2006.

The feature presentation of this edition is entitled Diamonds in Our Backyard: Collective Wisdom, edited by Jane Bost of the University of Texas at Austin.  She shares wisdom collected from many in our field, and invites us all to take time to “chew on” the powerful words of others that motivate, inspire, and encourage.

Thank you to Jonathan Kandell for his From the Chair column that includes highlights of the Commission’s work at the national convention.  The Roundtable Summaries are also included to give you a brief look at the richness of conversations that happened in these formats at the convention.  As we review these summaries, we all realize how exciting it is to join in the dialogues about our work and appreciate how much we can share with each other professionally. 

Toward our ongoing goal of facilitating meaningful professional sharing in our work, List-serves in college mental health: Opportunities for connection and communication provides some information about how to join various groups in conversations about some specialty areas of practice, include group work, practicum training, and program development and outreach.  

We are also excited about beginning a new aspect of the newsletter, an idea suggested by Don Rosen at Texas Women’s University – please read the Celebration of Service to the Profession announcement to hear more about how we can acknowledge years of service and dedication to the college mental health profession.

Finally, we would like to thank the website committee for formatting and uploading this newsletter.  They have done a fantastic job, as always, in reformatting and updating our website and appreciate their work in making us all look good!

Have a wonderful summer and we’ll see you in the fall.  Please remember the earlier registration dates (end of October) for the April joint meeting in Orlando, and be thinking about what programs you’d like to see at the meeting – who knows, it could be your own!

    Andrea Greenwood, Ph.D.
    Counseling Services
    University at Buffalo

    Jane Bost, Ph.D.
    Counseling and Mental Health Center
    The University of Texas at Austin

    Vivian Yamada, Psy.D.
    Counseling Center
    University of Central Florida


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