Ph.D. Degree in Counselor Education and Supervision
Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision Mission Statement
The doctoral program in Counselor Education and Supervision is designed to prepare graduates to be counselor educators and supervisors and to assume positions in institutions of higher education. In accordance with CACREP standards (www.cacrep.org), our goal is graduate counselor educators and supervisors who have:
knowledge of pedagogy and supervision,
advanced knowledge of counseling theory and practice,
demonstrate competency in the areas of counseling, supervision, and counselor education,
skills necessary to conduct research relevant to the profession, and
commitment to evaluating their own clinical, supervisory, teaching, and programmatic interventions.
In addition, graduates will model leadership through service and advocacy in the counseling profession. We believe that counselor educators and supervisors will promote awareness, knowledge, and skills in interacting with economically, socially, and culturally diverse members of communities.
The doctoral program in Counselor Education and Supervision is designed to prepare graduates to be counselor educators and supervisors and to assume positions in institutions of higher education.
In addition to coursework, doctoral students have the opportunity to obtain a variety of other professional experiences through graduate assistantships and individual work with faculty (e.g., research, scholarly writings, and conference presentations). To assist students in their professional development, Counselor Education faculty members strongly encourage students to collaborate with them on teaching, research, publications, professional presentations, and service opportunities.
The doctoral program is committed to recruiting and admitting students who reflect the diverse nature of our society. Our students represent our greatest strength, particularly in terms of their diversity, in terms of background, life experiences, and previous academic and work experience. In addition, preference will be given to applicants who have had one or more years of direct, supervised, full-time work experience as a professional counselor. The ideal candidate demonstrates openness to those opportunities designed to foster personal and professional development through a supporting and challenging learning environment. Furthermore, our students come with a deep interest in scholarship, research, and teaching.
Students progress through a carefully designed curriculum in a cohort model. Program faculty intentionally design didactic and experiential coursework that fosters the development of professional knowledge, skills, and self-awareness; all integral to the profession of counselor education and supervision. The program participates in a collaborative partnership with professional counselors and educational leaders to monitor, evaluate, and improve the program’s efforts to achieve its mission. Successful completion of the program requirements will earn the student the Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision.
Dissertation and Thesis Formatting Guidelines:
Unified formatting guidelines for theses and dissertations can now be found on the Graduate School’s Electronic Submission of Thesis and Dissertation website.
The Student Guide to Dissertation Formatting is here:
http://129.252.250.139/thesisdissertation/dissertation.htm#Student%20Guide%20to%20Formatting
The Student Guide to Thesis Formatting is here:
http://129.252.250.139/thesisdissertation/thesis.htm#Format_Guidelines
These two pages each include all the basic formatting guidelines, a link to a pdf document version of the Guidelines for downloading, templates in Word for theses and dissertations, and links to sample pages. A set of LaTex thesis and dissertation templates is in production and will be available for download from these pages by the end of December.
Please read the Ph.D. Handbook for detailed information regarding the admissions criteria, deadlines, curriculum, etc.