March 24, 2008 (Vol. 7, No. 5)

Prof. Chen-Hayes to Receive Human Rights Award

Lehman Professor Stuart Chen-Hayes (Counseling, Leadership, Literacy, and Special Education) will receive the 2008 Human Rights Award from the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) at the annual American Counseling Association conference in Honolulu on March 29.

"I am very honored by this award, which comes during my fifteenth year as a counselor educator," he said. "My career has focused on issues of equity and social justice, as seen through a multicultural lens. AMCD continues to be an important leader in the fields of professional counseling and promoting human rights."

Professor Chen-Hayes joined the Lehman faculty in 1998 and has written and spoken widely on transforming school counselor education. Since 1999, he has coordinated a partnership between Lehman and the Education Trust's National Center for Transforming School Counseling, which is aimed at helping school counselors narrow the achievement and opportunity gaps for K-16 students. In 2002, he led the restructuring of Lehman's counselor education/school counseling curriculum, which included a new focus on multicultural competencies and other equity issues in schools.

In 2007, Professor Chen-Hayes was named a "Leader of the Field" by Microtraining Associates, Inc., a developer of training materials for multicultural counselors and therapists. An active member of the American School Counselor Association, Counselors for Social Justice, which he cofounded, and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, he also serves on the editorial boards of Professional School Counseling and The Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling.

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