Active Research Projects
Counselor Education Faculty
Stanley Baker, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo
stanley_baker@ncsu.edu
515-6360
Professor Baker teaches in the Counselor Education Department. His
academic areas of emphasis are developmental counseling, secondary
school counseling, prevention, and cognitive-behavioral applications
in counseling. Dr. Baker's research interests focus on the enhancement
of school counseling in particular and counseling in general as
well as prevention programming for children and adolescents, especially
applications of cognitive- behavioral theory. He is also interested
in the improvement of the training of counselors, especially prepracticum
and supervision training methods. Research methodologies include
experimental design, program evaluation, meta-analysis, and structured
interview research.
Edwin Gerler, Ed.D.
Pennsylvania State University
edwin_gerler@ncsu.edu
515-5975
Dr. Gerler is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Counselor Education Program. He is a past associate dean for Research and External Affairs in the College of Education. Dr. Gerler's research interests include computer applications to counseling and other areas of education and preventive/developmental counseling in elementary and middle schools with an emphasis on prevention of school violence, as well as drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
Marc A. Grimmett, Ph.D.
The University of Georgia
marc_grimmett@ncsu.edu
515-6358
Dr. Grimmett is an Assistant Professor in the Counselor Education Department. His research focus is the preparation of African-American boys for happy and successful lives. Specifically, Dr. Grimmett would like to use artistic interventions to help African-American boys to develop a positive identity, to stimulate achievement across domains, and to facilitate career development that is sustainable over their lives. Other areas of interest include multiculturalism and social justice.
Sylvia Nassar-McMillan, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
sylvia_nassarmc@ncsu.edu
515-6363
Dr. Nassar-McMillan is an Associate Professor specializing in counselor education. Her scholarly agenda includes gender and multicultural issues, with a special focus on Arab Americans. Current research interests focus on ethnic identity development and acculturation, career development of ethnic and other minorities, Arab Americans, as well as refugee issues.
Jose A Picart, Ph.D.
jose_picart@ncsu.edu
515-3607
Dr. Picart, Professor in the Counselor Education Department and Vice
Provost for Diversity and African
American Affairs is currently involved in the following areas of research:
non-cognitive measures of
student preparation for success in college; the effect of diversity on
cognitive development and processes. Dr. Picart's research interests include:
diversity, leadership, learning styles and human memory.
Siu-Man Ting "Raymond," Ph.D.
The University of Iowa
raymond_ting@ncsu.edu
515-6362
Associate Professor Ting teaches counseling and student development and
also serves as Assistant Department Head, Department of Curriculum and
Instruction. Dr. Ting's areas of interest and experience include academic
performance and student retention, college admissions and student development,
assessment and evaluation, as well as career counseling.
last updated December 19, 2007
