COUNSELOR EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Meeting Minutes Thursday, September 19, 2013
Brenda O’Beirne (chair), Krista Kim, Jennifer Betters-Bubon (recording), Dave Van Doren, Jeff Cook,
Anene Okocha, Cindy Anderton, Laura Pressley were present.
1. The meeting was called to order at 9:30 a.m. The minutes from the September 12th meeting,
with one spelling change, were approved with a motion from Van Doren and a second by Cook.
2. One addition was added to the agenda: Certificate programs.
3. Information meetings were scheduled for the next 3 months:
 November 9th, 10:00: Dave Van Doren
 December 6th, 10:00: Jeff Cook
 January 10th, 10:00; Brenda O’Beirne
 Faculty members how are leading information sessions should reach out to graduate
students, both PA’s and CSI representatives, to get a student voice within these
meetings.
 Jennifer will create an additional slide on the placement rate for future sessions, as this
has been a question came up in a recent session led by Anene.
4. Jeff submitted an agenda Supervision Summit on Friday.
5. Course schedules
 Initial conversation focused on spring schedule for 2014. Faculty decided this looked
comprehensive.
 Subsequent conversation focused on the master schedule. It seems as though we may
have too many courses offered in the fall? Dave noted some difficulties for CMHC
students depending on their start semester (e.g., summer or fall). For example, students
who start in the fall can only take electives during their internship year. Those who start
in the summer will only be able to take 734 during their internship year. Faculty would
like to have sections consistent among fall/spring and summer.
 Other observations around the master schedule:
i. FALL START: CMHC students with a Marriage and Family Emphasis can only take
1 of the MFT specialty courses. Should we offer 1 course in the summer or
spring? For licensure, students need to take 731 and 2 out of the 3 (732, 733,
734).
ii. Change to master schedule: we will offer 749 every spring. 752 or 739 will be
offered as a hybrid. Brenda will make changes and adjust date on the master.
 A conversation took place around whether any of our emphasis specific courses should
be offered in the summer. We discussed changing the timing of school specific courses
to fall (course #1: Perspectives), spring (course #2: Elementary and Middle School) and
summer (course #3: Secondary). All will examine projections and advisees to see if a
change in the master schedule for school specific courses may create difficulty.
 Dave discussed putting together a template so that we all stay on the same page when
creating POS’s.
6. EMS updates
 Krista updated the group on the difficulties associated with EMS at the start of
semester. We are just now getting to a place where we can record. Students have been
great. EMS has much potential—eventually all client info will be housed in EMS (e.g.,
assignment to counselor, progress notes on EMS. Krista is going to continue to keep the
lab graduate assistants involved in the process and is going to work on electronic
progress notes. Despite the hiccups with the system, there still are positive feelings
about EMS.
7. Reunion
 Brenda gave a history of the past reunion, which was 4 years ago and was visited by
approximately 120 people. Krista reflected on the hope that with social media, it may
be easier to contact alums than it had been in the past. All felt it would be a good way
to connect current and former students. The faculty decided to move ahead with a
reunion. Brenda gave out possible dates and April 25th is the date! Brenda will organize
a meeting with grad students and the volunteer reunion committee (Jeff, Laura, Jen).
8. Reviews of progress
 Faculty discussed the few reviews of progress that were submitted early by students.
Faculty will co-sign the edited letters that says that advisors will create an opportunity
to discuss the review.
9. Student Concerns
 Faculty had a conversation surrounding student concerns
10. Clinical/practicum updates
 No new clinical updates were shared.
11. Brenda announced that the constituency committee recently approved the tenure
documentation for the department.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:37 by Anderton and Van Doren.