Who
are our Presenters?
Dan
Wilcox
Assistant
Director, Counseling Services
Kansas
State University
Dan
Wilcox has over 20 years of experience in higher
education teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and
working as assistant director for disabled students services,
career counselor, and psychologist. For the past 12 years
Dan has worked as Assistant Director and licensed psychologist
for Kansas State University Counseling Services. While at
Kansas State, he served for one year as Interim Director for
Career and Employment Services. Dan earned his bachelors degree
in Education (1975) and Masters in Special Education (1976)
from Portland State University. After working as an elementary
schoolteacher and a teacher/trainer for Portland State University’s
Vocational Habilitation Program for severely disabled adults,
Dan completed a Masters degree in College Student Development
from Azusa Pacific University in 1985. He then went
on to work as career counselor in a small private college
in California. From there he moved to Michigan and earned
his doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from Michigan
State University in 1995. Dan has a wide range of professional
interests including career and personal development
of college students, positive/strength based approaches to
psychotherapy, and the psychology of well–being.
Ruth
Harper
Professor
of Counseling and Human Resource Development
South
Dakota State University
Ruth
Harper is Professor of Counseling and Human Resource
Development at South Dakota State University, where she coordinates
the student affairs track. She is co-author (with Julie Baumberger)
of Assisting Students with Disabilities
(2007, 2nd ed.) and has presented at ACPA and NASPA on a wide
range of topics in student development over the past twenty
years. She is currently resource review coordinator for Counseling
Today, a monthly publication of the American Counseling
Association. Her article (co-authored with Meghan Peterson),
Mental
Health Issues and College Students: What Advisors Can Do,
serves as the Overview for the Mental Health Issues section
of the NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources.
Prior
to coming to SDSU, Ruth worked at Nebraska Wesleyan University,
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Her degrees were earned at Cornell College,
UW-Oshkosh, and Kansas State University.
Jeff
Herman 
Counselor
Lehigh
Carbon Community College
Jeffrey
Herman has been in his present position at Lehigh
Carbon Community College since 2003. He is responsible for
career and transfer counseling and academic advisement, in
addition to assisting students with their personal and mental
health needs. He has been a presenter at both regional and
national NACADA conferences. His article on mood disorders
among college students, The
Student You’ve Met But May Not Know, was recently
published in Academic Advising Today.
Jeffrey has worked extensively with students in academic jeopardy
and has sought to develop programs at LCCC to better assist
them.
Prior
to his current position, Jeffrey worked as a Mobile Therapist
doing family counseling for the Youth Advocate Program. He
has over 15 years of experience working with individuals with
disabilities, including those with chronic and persistent
mental health disorders, while the Lead Case Manager at Good
Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital and the Private Industry
Council of the Lehigh Valley. He has spoken to numerous community
and civic organizations on the Americans with Disabilities
Act and other issues related to the employment and education
of people with disabilities.
Jeffrey
earned a Masters of Arts Degree in Counseling and a Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Psychology from Kutztown University. He
has continued to do post graduate coursework at both Kutztown
University and Chestnut Hill College. |
