Announcements:
***Please check your STARS screens to be sure you're open to register! If not, clear up any encumbrances as soon as possible. Open registration begins November 23, 2009.***
A REMINDER TO CNED STUDENTS: If you have a change of address or phone number (work, cell, home), please remember to let our office know! Please call Diane at 309-762-1876 or contact her by email at di-heisner@wiu.edu. It is important that we have correct contact information! Thank you!
**Students, it is essential that you are on the CNED Listserv!**This is the main means of communication of important information and updates that directly affect the CNED student. Messages are sent daily which can impact your progress in the Department.
**Use your ECOM account! (This is the email account that ends in wiu.edu). All WIU students have an ECOM email available to them – but it must be activated by the student. Please follow the instructions on the GUAVA website to activate your account. Your WIU email account is the only way Western Illinois University and the Counselor Education Department will contact you via email - no personal email accounts will be recognized! Thank you!
PACERS Program
Thanks to AT&T, Rock Island High School PACERS (Positive Achievement and Creativity Equals Righteous Success)- an intensive mentoring, academic, and volunteer-based program developed through school and community efforts and Western Illinois University- will benefit from a nearly $375,000 infusion to help at-risk ninth-grade students in the Rock Island School District. PACERS will recieve the funds as part of a $48 million competitive grant process through AT&T's signature initiative Aspire, which addresses high school success and workforce readiness.
Dr. Holly Nikels authored the grant and is the coordinator for the program. PACERS was started to help at-risk freshman at Rock Island High School and has operated for four years through the volunteer efforst of a small group of individuals from the Rock Island community, RIHS, and WIU. "I am proud to say that every one of those students who started with PACERS can be accounted for today as having complete their high school education in some way. Some graduated from RIHS or other schools, some went on to Job Corps, and some obtained their GED certificates; they all succeeded."
The funding allows for the purchase of school supplies for each student, the addition of ten paid mentors to work with twenty students weekly at the high school, transportation to and from monthly community service projects, school/work site visits, and leadership training opportunities. It will also pay for two WIU graduate assistants, who are school counselors in training, and wil work at RIHS for the next four years. Congratulations Dr. Nikels and Rock Island High School!
Congratulations Drs. O'Ryan and McFarland!
Dr. Leslie O'Ryan and William McFarland were awarded the prestigious NCACS Research Award for 2008 for their work, A Phenomenological Exploration of the Experience of Dual Career Gay and Lesbian Couples. The research examines the impact and interaction of workplace adjustment on gay and lesbian relationships.
