We hope you are finding some rest and personal and professional renewal as you settle into summer.  We trust that you understand the decision we made as a committee to delay the late spring 2007 edition of the CCAPS Newsletter.  As we were working on it, the Virginia Tech tragedy occurred and became an overwhelming focus for each of us, as well it did for counseling center professionals around the country.  We continue to send thoughts and support to the Virginia Tech community, and specifically our professional colleagues who were so profoundly impacted by this tragedy.  It is our hope that we will have opportunities to provide ongoing support, and also to engage in conversations  about how the college mental health community can learn from so devastating a loss and how communities can grow through crises.  Sue Stock has shared some thoughts, and has graciously compiled an article on Responses from University and College Counseling Centers to the Virginia Tech Tragedy.  

This edition of the newsletter will also reflect on some of the highlights of the past convention as well as look to the coming year.  Check out the CCAPS Awards Committee announcements, which feature the winners of the 2007 Joan Dallum Graduate Student Research Award, the Thomas M. Magoon Innovation Award, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award.  This announcement also includes information and links to the 2008 Awards nomination information.  We hope that you’ll review this early, and consider making a nomination this summer when you may have time to think about honoring the professionals and outstanding work in our field.  

We have an excellent feature article for this edition.  Written by Dr. Linda Young, staff psychologist at Seattle University , Me, My Avatar and I: Massive Multiplayer Online Games and College Student Well-Being is an excellent introduction to understanding the potential impact of gaming in a college student population.  Dr. Young shared an excellent presentation entitled Gaming, Gawking and Gabbing at the 2007 Joint Meeting in Orlando , and those who attended shared feedback that it was an eye-opening and well-balanced review of some of the potential benefits as well as concerns about students’ online behavior.  She offers a great list of resources at the conclusion of the article as well as some recommendations about how counselors can assess risk and leverage benefits of gaming when online behavior may be impacting students’ wellness. 

Thank you to Jonathan Kandell for his From the Chair column, which includes a brief review of some of the changes facing ACPA as we implement the new governance structure, as well as a warm welcome to new commission directorate members, and recognition and appreciation to outgoing commission directorate members.  Finally, thanks again to David Gilles-Thomas for formatting and uploading this newsletter.

All the best for a healthy summer – we encourage you all to be actively considering submitting programs for review for the 2008 ACPA Conference in Atlanta in March 2008!  We encourage you to look over the brief review of the Call for Programs – the theme of the 2008 Conference is Professionalism with Purpose ~ Advancing Inclusion and Expertise, and the deadline for program proposals is September 14, 2007 .

Andrea Greenwood, Ph.D. Counseling Services University at Buffalo		Vivian Yamada, Psy.D. Counseling Center University of Central Florida
Jane Bost, Ph.D. Counseling and Mental Health Center The University of Texas at Austin		Leena Batra, Ph.D. Counseling and Mental Health Center The University of Texas at Austin