Rebecca Newgent Receives Regional Recognition from Professional Association
Posted on 11/11/2008
Rebecca Newgent, associate professor of counselor education at the University of Arkansas, has received the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award for Tenured Counselor Educators from the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
The award was presented last month in Houston at the association's biennial conference. Newgent was one of about a dozen College of Education and Health Professions faculty members and graduate students in counselor education who attended the four-day meeting. The association includes 14 Southern states with membership by academics prepared at the doctoral level to provide clinical supervision in the community as well as other professionals in the field.
The award was given based on demonstrated service to the counseling profession through publication, leadership and administration, and an ongoing research agenda. Newgent focuses on peer victimization in her research and is currently working with six schools in Springdale. She plans to take an off-campus duty assignment in the spring semester to prepare a series of manuscripts using the data she has collected over the past 4 ½ years on the factors that contribute to peer victimization, or bullying.
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