SCENES FROM CPSA The College of Professional Studies and Advancement PROF YATES WINS
When she sat down to a luncheon Friday at the Illinois School Counselors Association conference, Anna Marie Yates, Ph.D., was expecting a quiet meal with fellow National Louis University professors. Instead, she got a huge surprise. Leslie Goines, the president-elect of the school counselors association, announced Yates as a winner of the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM SCHOOL COUNSELORS Illinois School Counselors Association honored Anna Marie Yates, Ph.D. By Pam DeFiglio
association’s lifetime achievement award. Helping students become their best selves
“My reaction is grateful appreciation to the hundreds of school counselors across the state who are doing the same tasks that I did — helping students to become their best selves in academics, career choice and social-emotional well-being,” Yates said. Yates, assistant professor in National Louis University’s M.S. in Counseling program, served as a counselor in northwest suburban High School District 214 schools for 20 years. She holds her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. This is the first time the Illinois School Counselors Association, which is one of 14 divisions of the Illinois “National Louis University is thrilled that Anna Marie Yates has been recognized by her peers through the lifetime achievement award in the Illinois Schools Counseling Association. We are grateful to have Anna Marie as a longtime beloved faculty in our Master’s in Counseling program and are proud of her contributions to the field. Anna Marie’s dedication to the success of her students is indicative of the type of faculty we strive for at National Louis.”
Counseling Association, has presented a lifetime achievement award. Yates, who has served as president of three of the ICA’s divisions, was nominated by Vince Walsh-Rock, Ph.D., assistant principal for counseling at Downers Grove South High School. Earlier, Yates won the Illinois School Counselor’s Association High School Counselor of the Year award twice, in 1995 and 2006. School counseling evolved over time Upon receiving the award, Yates said her thoughts now take her back to the past, immerse her in the present and lead her focus to the future. “In the early ’60’s when I was hired for my first school counseling job, I tried to reach every student — via large counseling curriculum groups, small groups and individual sessions; I contacted parents, worked with teachers and did testing,” she wrote. “These reflective past memories are ever so vivid in the present. I am working with my interns who are right now facing these same challenges that I encountered in the past and also adding new and even more difficult issues and incorporating connections through new technologies and internet access. And, I do think about the future … our world and the kind of problems that lie ahead. Our profession is always on the cutting edge of new theories and interventions that will help our students.”
DEAN’S PERSPECTIVE Judah Viola, Ph.D. College of Professional Studies and Advancement CPSADeansOffice@nl.edu
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