Stephanie Onkst was selected as one of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education Foundation Scholarship recipients for the spring 2024 semester.
Chi Sigma Iota held its initiation ceremony on Friday, April 5th!
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Nice, who was awarded today as this year's Outstanding Researcher for the College of Education and Communications!
IUP’s Department of Counseling program, along with Counselors for Social Justice, hosted its second in-house Social Justice Conference at IUP Pittsburgh East! Dr. Deborah Duenyas was the keynote speaker.
Brittany Pollard-Kosidowski received the Presidential Award for Service at this year's Association for Specialists in Group Work conference in Portland, OR.
Professor Matthew Nice received the CSI’s Edwin L. Herr Fellowship for Excellence in Counseling Leadership and Scholarship. The Herr Fellowship includes funding to be used for research.
Kelly Fox, a school counselor at Indiana County Technology Center, received the Department of Counseling's Claire J. Dandeneau Outstanding Supervisor award in 2023.
IUP counselor education doctoral student Stephanie Onkst won the 2023 Pennsylvania Counseling Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the 2023 PCA annual conference in Harrisburg, PA.
The College of Education and Communications congratulates Joel Brown on receiving the College's Alumni Scholar Award.
The College of Education and Communications congratulates Racheal Nuwagaba-K on receiving the College's Student Research Award.
The late Robert Flora, a 1978 graduate of IUP’s psychology clinical mental health counseling master’s program, left instructions revealed after his death to donate $200,000 from his estate to IUP for student scholarships.
Students from IUP's MA and PhD counseling programs have been named to the Executive Board of the Pennsylvania Association for Specialists in Group Work.
Congratulations to Carol Lynn Hecht, from CES Cohort 4 at Pittsburgh East, for her recent awarding of an IUP Graduate Student Research Grant. This grant will help fund Carol Lynn's dissertation research, titled "Experiences Providing End-of-Life Counseling: A Narrative Inquiry."
Matthew Nice, Department of Counseling, recently published a research article in the Journal of Counseling and Development, the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association and the counseling profession. The article analyzes 31 years of wellness and well-being counseling research.
Alexis DeShong was recently announced as a graduate student ambassador for the PSCA Graduate School Connections.
IUP's Iota Upsilon Pi Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota hosted the eleventh annual CSI Pennsylvania Statewide Conference in the Kovalchick Complex on April 22, 2023.
Three Department of Counseling faculty members were recognized for outstanding research.
Jessica Cosby, PhD Counseling alumna, received the Impact Award from the IUP College of Education and Communications. She was recognized for outstanding achievement in her profession, engagement with IUP, and leadership.
Matthew Nice was awarded the Association for Adult Development and Aging's 2023 Outstanding Research Award at the ACA conference in Toronto.
The Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania recently presented the Dr. Claire J. Dandeneau Outstanding Supervisor Award to Louise Bivens, a social worker at Indiana Regional Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Services.
Brittany Pollard-Kosidowski won the IUP College of Education Research Award and the Counselors for Social Justice's Ohana Award.
The Pennsylvania School Counselors Association has named Matthew Nice the School Counselor Educator of the Year for 2022–23.
Sibyl West and Brittany Pollard-Kosidowski, Department of Counseling, published a book chapter in David Capuzzi's 4th edition of "Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications."
Read about this past year's departmental ongoings, as well as faculty and student updates.
IUP’s Department of Counseling has been invited to join the Cambria County Drug and Alcohol Program and REACH (Reaching Educational Achievements with Clinical Mental Health), a school-based mental health agency, to provide interns for supervised counseling and support for students in Cambria County schools.