Department Honors

• Dr. JoAnne Brewster is one of the first professionals to be Board Certified in Police and Public Safety Psychology, by the American Board of Police and Public Safety Psychology (ABPPSP), a new specialty board of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).
• Dr. Sara J. Finney was awarded the Thomas F. Donlon Memorial Award for Distinguished Mentoring from the Northeastern Educational Research Association for 'Outstanding Mentorship of Students and Colleagues' at the 2011 NERA Annual Conference (October 19-21).
• Jason Kopp, first-year doctoral student in the Assessment & Measurement PhD program received 'The Best Paper by a Graduate Student' award for his paper:  "I can't believe she gave me a C!: Measuring entitlement in higher education” (co-authors: Tracy E. Zinn. Sara J. Finney, and Daniel P. Jurich).
• Dena A. Pastor, Assessment & Measurement PhD and Psychological Sciences MA faculty member, was elected to the Board of Directors for NERA.
• The CISAT Dean's Office is pleased to announce that Dr. Renee Staton, Counseling Programs Director, is the recipient of the 2011 Teaching Award for her work Training for Change: How to Teach Theory.
• The Virginia Counselors Association has announced the winners of its annual awards. Sandy Hite, Clinician-in-Residence, received the Van Hoose Career Service Award. The CVCA won the Large Chapter of the Year Award.  The awards committee complimented Katie Baird, CVCA president and JMU alumna, on all the work of the organization, especially the newsletter edited by Jorli Swingin and Lisa Ellison, who are students in the School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Programs respectively.