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George K. Walker

1 Year
Philip Branker Clarke, Assistant Professor, Counseling
Clay Riley Hassler, Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication
Sara Moreno De Nicolas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Romance Languages
Eric Zachary Tucker, Teacher/Sch/Postdoc Fellow, Chemistry

25 Years
S. Douglas Beets, Professor, Schools of Business

40 Years
George K. Walker, Professor, Law

Samuel Gladding, professor and chair of counseling, was reappointed to the N.C. Board of Licensed Professional Counselors by Governor Beverley Perdue. His term will expire on June 30, 2014.

The Board carries out a variety of actions, including examining and passing on the qualifications of applicants, issuing licenses and license renewals, adopting ethical standards and examination materials, establishing standards for continuing professional counselor education, and conducting investigations and hearings as necessary.

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Nine professors — in art, counseling, divinity, economics, history, religion, journalism, classical languages and East Asian languages — are retiring this year, after leaving an indelible mark on generations of students dating back to the 1970s. Continue reading »

Role playing, writing or drawing what one is feeling can have significant therapeutic value, counseling professor Samuel T. Gladding explains in his book “The Creative Arts in Counseling.” Read more.

Counseling professor Sam Gladding

A woman suffering from domestic violence acts out what is happening in her home. A man struggling with issues at work writes down what causes him stress. A child dealing with an unhappy home life draws a picture of sad stick people and then a picture of happy stick people.

Role playing (acting), writing or drawing what one is feeling can have significant therapeutic value. Professor and Chair of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding (’67, MAEd ’71) is one of the country’s leading authorities on how using the creative arts — music, dance, visual art, humor, drama and writing — can help clients become more in tune with their emotions and feelings.

“Expressing yourself through the creative arts is a way that you can control your thoughts rather than your thoughts controlling you,” Gladding said. “The creative arts are a tool to help people move on with their lives and get closure.” Continue reading »

The five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — are a commonly accepted and comforting road map to overcoming grief. But the stages were never intended to be a uniform way of dealing with the death of a loved one, says Professor of Counseling Ed Shaw.

“It presented grief as a scripted sequence with a beginning and an ending,” said Shaw, who is transitioning from a long career in radiation oncology at the School of Medicine into the counseling profession. Continue reading »

Chair and Professor of Counseling Samuel T. Gladding shared his expertise of family counseling with educators and students in Turkey during a month-long stay there last summer as the University’s first Fulbright Specialist scholar.

Gladding (’67, MA ’71) will share his experience with colleagues at this month’s Thursdays at Starling program on Nov. 4. The program, open to faculty and staff, will be held in Starling Hall beginning at 4 p.m.

Professor of Theatre Cindy Gendrich and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sandya Hewamanne are also on the program. Gendrich will discuss her research project, “Why Do People Laugh?”, which received an NEH Enduring Questions grant. Hewamanne, recipient of the third annual Hatch Award for Academic Excellence, will discuss her summer research at Oxford’s Bodleian Library on the writings of a Buddhist revivalist and its impact on Sri Lankan women. Continue reading »