Student & Alumni Spotlights

Counseling

Alumnus Dan Clere, who received a master’s degree in rehabilitation in 1970, writes: “I attribute my two years at the University of Arizona as changing my life and, I hope, a few student lives with whom I came in touch.”  

Clere worked at a Huntington Beach, California, community college that was searching for someone with a counseling education to start a program for deaf students. He was the first person hired, and his initial duties were to find teachers, interpreters, and students who would benefit from the college's services.  

“I interviewed and evaluated all incoming students from Southern California, several states, and three countries. It was a hugely successful program. I was their counselor for nine years. I moved on to Texas, where I became the director of assessment at a college for the deaf in a small town in west Texas.” 

School counseling graduate student Monika “Momo” Cristina Cabrera was named a fellow for the NBCC Foundation's Minority Fellowship Program, which reduces health disparities and improves behavioral health care outcomes for racially and ethnically diverse and underserved populations. As a fellow of the program, Cabrera will receive funding and training to support her education and her service to underserved populations.

Counseling graduate student Alexis Dotson was accepted to Howard University and selected for the Frederick Douglass Doctoral Scholars Program. The program is for new doctoral students and recruits academically talented students with an interest in college or university teaching.