| COUNSELING,
REHABILITATION, AND STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
Maki to Serve 3rd Term as CORE President
Maki looks forward to an exciting third term. |
The Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) reelected Professor Dennis R. Maki to serve a third term as president. CORE, comprised of appointees from the nation’s major rehabilitation counseling professional organizations, determines standards for accreditation. CORE currently accredits approximately 100 master’s rehabilitation counseling programs across the country.
“I believe that the role of accreditation is to make certain that a contemporary curriculum is delivered ensuring that today’s rehabilitation counseling students are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide quality services for people with disabilities throughout the United States,” Maki said. “It is also important to note that graduating from an accredited program is the portal to qualifying for professional licensure and certification.”
Maki has taken some bold actions that are moving the organization forward in some exciting directions to ensure that rehabilitation counseling professionals are included in those credentials and marketplaces for which they are qualified.
CORE Executive Director Don Linkowski said he is honored to work closely with Maki and recognizes the importance of his leadership in redefining the profession’s standards.
“We are fortunate to have him as the president of the accrediting body in rehabilitation counseling at this juncture in our 32-year history,” Linkowski said. “His sense of timing is excellent.
Saunders Edits 2nd Edition
Assistant Professor Jodi Saunders |
Assistant Professor Jodi Saunders pulled together the country’s best rehabilitation counseling authorities to offer an all-inclusive case management textbook she co-edited for the biological, psychosocial, and vocational aspects of disabilities. Case Management for Rehabilitation Health Professionals, second edition, Volume 1 focuses on foundational case management aspects for rehabilitation professionals and Volume 2 addresses applications with specific populations.
“This book is a wonderful resource for my class,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor David Rosenthal. “The depth and breadth of the topics addressed, including work and disability issues, as well as specific suggestions to allied health professionals enhances the quality of life for persons with disabilities. It is a text that is just as applicable for practioners as it is for undergraduate and graduate students.”
Saunders authored three chapters in the book. Other College of Education authors include Professor Vilia Tarvydas and doctoral student Susan Michaelson.
Jepsen Continues to Find the Answers
Professor David Jepsen |
The most consistently satisfying work Counselor Education Professor David Jepsen has done at The University of Iowa has been long-term research projects. After 35 years, Jepsen is retiring, and now looking forward to doing some personal research of his own.
“I’ve got ancestors from Marshalltown, Iowa, who claim relation to William Howard Taft,” Jepsen says mischievously. “Not the best president, but at some 320 pounds, certainly carried the most weight. So, my wife and I are going to try to find out more about little mysteries like that.”
An Iowa native himself, Jepsen’s work has followed the same people over several decades to find out how the careers of students from rural high schools unfolded over 30 years. Jepsen was interested in how early experiences shaped people, and how the choices people expressed in high school related to their adult lives. As it turns out, the more adolescents explored the professional world, the better personal success they encountered when they were 40 years old.
Jepsen counts seeing so many Iowa students succeed at the highest levels of education as his most gratifying experience. He also finds the University’s diversity invigorating. “Once, in a graduate class of 25, five of the seven continents were represented,” he recalls. “What a wonderful opportunity!”
And the opportunity to learn from such a professor is extraordinary.
“No other person or educator has taught me more about the joys of life and the importance of education than Dr. Jepsen,” says graduate student Heather Urban. “He’s an admirable, compassionate mentor, leader, supporter, innovator, advocate, role model, and above all else, a true friend.”
Fat Taft isn’t the only president potentially in Jepsen’s past. He hopes to look up another family claim: that one of his great, great aunts did laundry—for Abraham Lincoln. Is it true? Jepsen laughs. “We’ll just have to wait and see.”
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