| Who
are our Presenters?
Kenneth
F. Hughey
Professor
Kansas
State Unversity
Ken Hughey
has more than a decade of experience teaching graduate courses
in career development. He is the former Associate Director
of Counseling for High Skills (1992-1998), a DeWitt Wallace-Reader's
Digest Fund project designed to assist counselors in addressing
the career development of students planning to attend community
colleges, technical institutions, and proprietary institutions.
Prior to coming to K-State in 1989, Hughey had 15 years experience
in career guidance and counseling, including working with
college students and adults in transition. Hughey has published
articles on career development in well-respected journals,
such as Professional School Counseling, the Journal
of Career Development, The School Counselor,
and the Journal of Counseling and Development. He
is also the former Editor of Professional School Counseling
and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Career
Development. Along with his NACADA involvement,
Ken is a member of the American Counseling Association, the
National Career Development Association, and the Association
for Counselor Education and Supervision.
Ken
serves as a faculty member for the NACADA - Kansas State University
Graduate Certificate in Academic Advising Program, teaching
the Trends in Career Development course. He
presented Career Development and the Changing Workplace:
Implications for Advising at the NACADA Annual Conference
in Las Vegas (2005) and contributed an article on the topic
for the September 2006 edition of NACADA's quarterly e-Publication,
Academic Advising Today.
Ken
earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia,
and his M.A.Ed. and B.S.Ed from Southeast Missouri State University
Joanne
Damminger
Executive
Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs
Rowan
University
As the Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Student
Affairs at Rowan University, Joanne Damminger's
work focuses on designing first-year and sophomore-year experiences
to increase student satisfaction, academic success, intentional
learning, social adjustment, and retention. Additionally,
she directs major events such as Freshman and Transfer Orientations
and Homecoming and enjoys teaching in the Masters for Counseling
in Educational Settings Program.
Joanne
coordinates a comprehensive first-year learning community
for undeclared students that highlights in- and out- of the
classroom student interactions while emphasizing advising
as teaching. The community serves as a model for career advising
as it integrates career and academic advising to help students
explore themselves and majors while creating and implementing
educational choices and career plans.
Joanne
presents nationally and internationally on the topics of the
first-year experience, creating living/learning communities
and helping students to become intentional learners. She has
presented nationally and regionally on career counseling topics
such as Resume Writing, Interviewing and Job Searching. Some
of Joanne’s current activities include serving on the NACADA
Consultant’s Bureau Advisory Board and as a faculty member
for the NACADA 21st Annual Academic Advising Summer Institute
in Salt Lake City. She recently published “A Collaborative,
Holistic Career Development Program for Business Students”
in the NACE Journal (March 2007) and wrote the chapter “Self-Assessment:
Relevance and Value in the First-Year” for the NACADA and
FYE monograph entitled Academic Advising: New Insights
for Teaching and Learning in the First Year.
Joanne
was named to the Rowan University Wall of Fame for her contributions
to academic advising and she received the Rowan University
D.W.S. Hoffner Award for Outstanding Administrator and the
Outstanding Greek Advisor Award in 2007.
Joanne
earned her Doctorate in Education in Educational Leadership,
a Master of Arts Degree in Student Personnel Services and
a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education from Rowan
University. |
