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M.C.C.A. F ALL N EWSLETTER
11/10/05
What’s Inside:
MCA Conference & MCCA
Hospitality Suite
Web Page Help
Meet your new officers
We want your input.
By-law review
TRAVERSE CITY
IN
FALL
This year’s annual conference of MCA was held
in the beautiful hills of Traverse City at the
Grand Traverse Resort. Again this year, MCCA
hosted a hospitality suite for all participants of
the conference. To help celebrate MCCA’s 10th
anniversary there was a drawing held and
denim shirts were given away to four lucky
winners. The winners were:
Winner’s names
Will Gasper – Shirt
Cheryl Dove – Shirt
Brian Williams – Shirt
Suzanne Hobson – Shirt
Linda Piippo - Clock
There were over 50 visiters to the suite during
this hospitality time and the suite became a
drop in site to watch the sunset and to network
with other attendees. Don’t miss next years
hospitality as we all attend MCA conference in
Grand Rapids.
Please take a few minutes to look at some of the
pictures found on page 5. Maybe you will see
yourself there.
WEB PAGE
We are looking for a volunteer that knows
something about web pages. Someone that
might know how to go about getting a site to be
published on the web, and the best way to go
about getting a site established. (Finding a host
site)
There is a start, but it is in need of some tech
savvy person to give it some tender loving care.
If you would like to help out your organization,
please let Christina DeLand know at
delandc@lcc.edu
MEET
YOUR NEW OFFICERS
In this newsletter you will be able to meet this
years officers’. Included are photos so that you
will be able to identify them.
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international students, adjustment issues,
college student development, and issues related
to anxiety and depression.
PRESIDENT ELECT
Donna AustinDonna received her master's degree in
Counseling in Higher Education from Western
Michigan University in 1995. She previously
worked for Kellogg Community College and
Glen Oaks Community College and is currently
the director of the federally funded TRIO
program, EXCEL (Student Support Services) for
Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac.
Students served through this program must
meet the federal guidelines of first generation
and/or low-income or disabled and have an
academic need. They must also show some
potential for success.
Donna is busy planning an exciting spring
conference and hopes you will all come to
beautiful southwest Michigan on May 19th.
TREASURER-ELECT
James Wohlcott
A previous leadership role involved serving as
MCA Membership Chair for 2002-03. James is
currently employed full-time at Lansing
Community College as the Student
Employment Coordinator. Prior to joining
LCC, he worked as an academic advisor at
Oakland University in Rochester, MI and as a
student services coordinator at Western
Nebraska Community College. James
completed his M.A. degree in counseling in
higher education from Western Michigan
University in 1996.
SECRETARY
Adriana Fox- MA, LLPC
Adriana Fox is a doctoral student in the
Counselor Education program at Western
Michigan University and serves as secretary for
MCCA. Her primary interests are counseling
4-YEAR PUBLIC COLLEGE MEMBERAT-LARGE
Will Gasper –
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Will Gasper completed his MA in Dec. 2004
from CMU and works at Ferris State University
as the Grounds Supervisor. Will also is an
adjunct instructor in the University College,
working with undecided students looking to
make a choice in their career direction. In his
spare time, Will also works for a local agency,
counseling and working with its drug and
alcohol clientele. Will is married to Patti, his
wife of 27 years; they just built a new house in
LeRoy, and have 3 grown daughters and 5
wonderful grandchildren. Will enjoys hunting,
and fishing and household projects as time
allows.
RETURNING
THIS
YEAR
PAST PRESIDENT
Tyrone Collins
Tyrone is currently working at Ferris State
University as an admissions counselor. In this
job it keeps him on the road quite a bit doing
recruiting. He has worked at Ferris for the last
27 years. He earned his B.S. from Ferris State
University in Public Administration and his
M.A. in Counseling - Higher Education from
Central Michigan University.
GRADUATE STUDENT
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Shaunda Jimmerson
I am a student member of the MCA and the
Graduate Representative for both the MCCA
and MCDA. I am pursuing a Master's degree in
College Counseling from Eastern Michigan
University and am currently in a full- time
internship at Schoolcraft College, working in
their counseling center and career planning and
placement center.
TREASURER
James Lucka, Treasurer
Jim works for Montcalm Community College at
the Sidney, Michigan campus. As a counselor
there, some of his duties include;
Testing (Career/Interest Testing &
Interpretation), GED Chief Examiner, Transfer
Advising, General Advising, Brief Personal
Counseling, Curriculum Committee member,
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Liaison with senior institution transfer
admission contacts, Sometime new student
contact, Contact representative for several
private scholarship offerings for transfer
students, Liaison with faculty to identify,
contact and meet with students having poor
attendance/academic difficulties,
Counselor/advisor to academically dismissed,
returning students, to Displaced Workers
linked to Michigan Works, Referral source,
gatekeeper, etc....
Jim is a very busy man!
4-YEAR PRIVATE COLLEGE
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Christine Brant
Chris has been employed by Madonna
University as the Director of Career Services for
20 years. She is a LPC with a Master’s degree
in Guidance in Counseling from Oakland
University.
2-YEAR COLLEGE
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Kareen Monton
Kareen has been with the Student Services
Department at West Shore Community College
since 1989. In 1995, she completed her MA in
Counseling and became the Career Counselor
at WSCC. She has earned the National
Certified Counselor, National Certified Career
Counselor, Master Career Counselor and
Distance Credentialed Counselor certifications.
In addition to counseling responsibilities, she
supervises the Women’s Resource Center.
Kareen and her husband Tony live in
Pentwater where they enjoy sailing, walking
the beach and skiing.
PRESIDENT
Christina Deland
Christina is a counselor at Lansing Community
College. She serves primarily At-Risk
students. These are students who place into
developmental and ESL courses or as a result of
failure to make satisfactory academic progress,
and students with learning disabilities. She
was one of the key people involved in
developing the Critical Incident Response
Team at Lansing Community College in 1998.
She along with a colleague wrote the training
manual and conducted on-site trainings for her
peers. She also teaches in the Student
Development area at L.C.C., teaching
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Elimination of Self-Defeating Behavior, Stress
Management, and Empathy Skills Training.
Christina has completed the Graduate
Certification Program at WMU in Holistic
Health.
Christina served as the registration
chairperson for the 2003 MCA conference held
in Lansing, and is currently the secretary-elect
of MCA.
BY-LAW UPDATE
Your executive team has been working very
hard to update the by-laws of MCCA. This
project was started under Tyrone’s leadership
with the assistance of then, Past-President
Carol Quigley. It is now ready for your
review. We have included a DRAFT copy in
this newsletter.
Please review these by-laws and send your vote
for adoption to Christina @ delandc@lcc.edu .
MARK
YOUR CALENDARS
NOW!!
MCCA Spring Conference to be held at
Southwestern Michigan College May 19, 2006.
Please submit your presentation proposals to
Donna @ daustin@swmich.edu or Adriana @
adriana.fox@wmich.edu .
Watch for more about this conference coming
out in an e-mail after the first of the year.
If you do not receive e-mails from MCCA,
please send a note to Christina @
delandc@lcc.edu and let her know to make sure
that you are on the mailing list.
Also mark your calendars for next October 21 –
24 for MCA pre-conference sessions as well as
the conference itself. See the flyer below
check out the web site @
http://www.michigancounseling.org/ .
or
PICTURES FROM MCA
CONFERENCE IN TRAVERSE
CITY – OCTOBER 15-18
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