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Counseling Center Director Interviews
March 22, 2018
MACOMB, IL – Interviews for the Western Illinois University Counseling Center director position will be held Tuesday, April 17 and Thursday, April 19.
Candidates include Amy Buwick, clinical supervisor of the WIU Counseling Center (April 17), and Kristy Keefe, assistant professor in the Community Mental Health Program at Western (April 19).
An open session for each candidate will be held on the Macomb campus from 10:30-11:15 a.m. during each interview session in the University Union Algonquin Room.
Buwick has been the clinical supervisor at WIU since 2017 and a counselor at the center from 1994-2002 and from 2007-2017. She served as the administrator of WIU's Alcohol and Other Drugs Resource Center from 2002-2007 and a counselor at McDonough District Hospital in Macomb from 1989-1994.
Buwick received her master's degree in counselor education from WIU and her bachelor's degree in psychology from Northern Illinois University.
Keefe has been an assistant professor in the University's Community Mental Health Program since 2014. She has previous served as an associate professor and program director at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky (2013-14); an associate professor/clinical director in the University of the Cumberlands (2010-13); a part time instructor in the WIU Department of Psychology (2012-13); an assistant professor of psychology and practicum director at Union College in Kentucky (2008-10); adjunct faculty at Purdue University (2007); adjunct faculty at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana and Miami University in Ohio (2007) and adjunct faculty at Ivy Tech Community College (2005-06). She has also served as a psychologist in the WIU Psychology Clinic and a consulting psychologist at Sahner and Associates, Inc. (2009-12) and at Baptist Regional Medical Center (2010-12).
Keefe received her doctorate in psychology from the University of Indianapolis; her master's degree in psychology from the University of Indianapolis and her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin.
The University Counseling Center has the primary responsibility for the delivery of counseling services, assessment services, consultation, training, public relations and outreach activities to WIU students.
Complete candidate interview schedules and vitas are available at wiu.edu/employment.
Posted By: University Communications (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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