Student Newsletter
January 21, 2025
6th Annual Career Institute
Registration is now open for the 6th Annual Career Institute happening on Friday, January 31, 2025, brought to you by the North Carolina Central University Counselor Education Program with guest speakers supported by the North Carolina Career Development Association.
The theme for the institute is,The Connection Between Career Development, Mental Health, and Wellness. We will explore the impact of mental health and wellness on individuals’ career development and share wellness and career development strategies that can inform the work of practitioners. Attendees will also engage with a panel of career and counseling practitioners within the fields of higher education, K-12 schools, private practice, and industry at various stages in their career journeys to discuss the impact of wellness on career development.
Registration Link: bit.ly/6thcareerinstitute
Registration Cost:
- $25 to receive a NBCC CEU certificate for up to 4 contact hours.
- Registration is free without a CEU certificate.
Want to take the Comprehensive Exam ("Comps") this Spring or Summer?
Are you taking practicum in the spring or summer of 2025 and have not completed the CPCE (Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Exam)? A passing score on the CPCE (commonly called comps) is required for graduation. The spring CPCE testing window is March 10-21, 2025.
Go to NCCUcounseling.com>students>Comprehensive Exam>CPCE registration interest and all the information you need is provided. Use this Google survey to begin the process. Why complete the survey? This allows Dr. Barrow to endorse you for testing on campus, close to home or even at home and to send you customized directions for testing after you are endorsed. Please use the link below for more information, including a link to the Google survey. Deadline is February 20, 2025.
http://www.nccucounseling.com/student2/index.php/advising/comprehensive-exam
Recruiting Graduate Student Volunteers for the NCCA Conference
I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request your assistance in recruiting graduate student volunteers for the upcoming NCCA 2025 Counseling Conference: Empowering Counselors: Nurturing Holistic Wellness Through Trauma-Informed Care, which will take place February 27-March 1 in Charlotte, NC.
This is a wonderful opportunity for students to engage with the professional counseling community while supporting the success of our annual conference. As an added benefit, students who commit to one full day of volunteer service will receive $100 off the two-day registration fee.
Here's the discounted rate breakdown:
Student NCCA Members: $50; Student Non-Members: $75.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with your students.
Thanks for your support, and I look forward to seeing you in Charlotte!
Warm regards,
Shanita Brown, Ph.D., LCMHCS, NCC
Teaching Asst. Professor
Program Advisor
President Elect of The North Carolina Counseling Association
Counselor Education Program
Dept. of Interdisciplinary Professions
East Carolina University
Online NCE Prep Workshop
Chi Sigma Iota, Counseling Honor Society
Dear Students,
Our Chi Sigma Iota (CSI) membership team has been active, excited, and engaged. We are excited about the increased interest in joining CSI. Starting in January, Chi Sigma Iota members will visit classrooms. These visits will provide an opportunity to learn more about CSI, including how membership can enhance your academic and professional journey through networking, leadership opportunities, and resources to support your growth as a counselor.
In the meantime, if you have completed at least nine credit hours in the program while maintaining a GPA of at least 3.5, and are interested in being a member of our Chi Sigma Iota’s counseling honor society chapter (Chapter Nu Chi Chi), please email the following people and attach a letter that includes (a) your current GPA, (b) the number of hours you will have completed in the program, and (c) a brief statement explaining why you'd like to become a member of Nu Chi Chi. If this is your first year, feel free to email your interest as we will be taking applications of interest into January and February. The official induction of new members will be April - exact date to be determined.
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We look forward to seeing you in January and hope you'll consider becoming part of Chi Sigma Iota!
2025 MOA and Special Request Timeline (Practicum and Internship)
Spring 2025
- Site Supervisor’s Orientation Spring 2025: Friday, January 24, 2025 @ 3 p.m. via Web-Ex
- Summer 2025 MOA deadline date: Friday, April 11, 2025
- Special request deadline date: Monday, March 10, 2025
- Field Service Committee will meet: Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Students notified by: Monday, March 17, 2025
Summer 2025
- Fall 2025 MOA deadline date: Friday, July 11, 2025
- Special request deadline date: Monday, June 9, 2025
- Field Service Committee will meet: Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Students will be notified by: Monday, June 16, 2025
Latest Announcements from nccuCounseling
- Recruiting Graduate Student Volunteers for NCCA Conference 2025-01-21
- Person County Schools is Hiring 2025-01-20
- Internship Opportunity - Radical Healing Collaborative 2025-01-15
- Stress First Aid Training: January 24, 2025 2025-01-15
- Pubic Service Dialogue: Social Justice Non-profits Discussion 2025-01-13
- Two Graduate Research Assistants Sought for Opioid Study 2025-01-13
- Want to take the Comprehensive Exam ("Comps") this Spring or Summer? 2025-01-09
- Online NCE Prep Workshop 2025-01-08
Upcoming Dates to Remember for nccuCounseling:
- January 24: Site supervisor orientation meeting (3pm)
- January 27: Late registration and schedule adjustment period (drop/add) ends at noon
- January 28: Counseling Program faculty meeting (tentative); first day for a student initiate a withdrawal from a course
- January 31: 6th Annual Career Institute
- February 3-7: National School Counseling Week
Did you know that you can subscribe to the nccuCounseling calendar? If you use a digital calendar, you can subscribe and have all of the information from the "Key Dates" letter auto-populate in your calendar. Visit our website for more information.
