Stuart Chen-Hayes's Blog

Stuart Chen-Hayes, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Counselor Education/School Counseling. He teaches professional identity in counseling, practicum, internship, developmental school counseling, and sexuality counseling at Lehman. He loves to write, edit, educate, supervise, and empower school counselor candidates, colleagues, site supervisors, and all K-16 school stakeholders on the power of transforming school counseling and college access/admission/success counseling to close achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps.

What a year it has been. We started off with the Class of 2012 immersed in readying their school counseling program websites, school counseling curriculum classroom lessons, school counseling brochures, and digital bulletin boards while busy in internship sites in K-12 schools in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Westchester, and beyond. To see what they look like, check out Lehman Counselor Education/School Counseling '09 alum Lisa DeMauro's Manhattan middle school counseling program website at: htt...

As a school counselor educator, I've focused on two lines of scholarship--transforming the school counseling profession with school counseling program interventions to help close achievement and opportunity gaps and supporting the needs of LBGTQIA students and families. One of the great things about being a faculty member is having the time to pursue not only research and scholarship but to work with our graduate students and professional colleagues in school counseling to create the next...