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The Counselor Educator Crunch: Anatomy of a Faculty Search
Author(s) -
MAPLES MARY F.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1989.tb01141.x
Subject(s) - crunch , economic shortage , counselor education , psychology , medical education , higher education , pedagogy , medicine , political science , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , law , physical therapy
When this 25‐year‐old counselor education program found itself with two faculty vacancies to fill, interesting experiences ensued. To determine whether those experiences were unique or comparable to those in other institutions with similar geographic, demographic, and economic characteristics, a survey of institutional vacancies in counselor education was taken. The results indicated that there seems to be an impending shortage of qualified counselor educators.