ACA -CCPA 2016 Conference & Expo

Sylvia Nassar-McMillan
Professor and Program Coordinator, Counselor Educcation
North Carolina State University


Sylvia Nassar-McMillan is currently a Professor and Program Coordinator of Counselor Education at North Carolina State University.  She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling and Counselor Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1994.  She has served in a variety of clinical mental health, schools, and college settings over the past 30 years, and her initiatives have included promoting the professionalism of counseling and counselor education. Her scholarship spans multicultural, gender, and career development issues, with a special focus on Arab American acculturation and ethnic identity development, and she has published over 75 books, refereed articles, and other instructional materials and delivered over 75 conference presentations. Dr. Nassar-McMillan currently serves on the CACREP 2016 Standards Revision Committee and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development's Multicultural Counseling Competencies Revision Committee, and has served as board member for the Census Information Center Advisory Board to the Arab American Institute, National Board for Certified Counselors, and North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors. She is past Associate Editor for Multicultural Issues for the Journal of Counseling & Development, for which she currently serves as Senior Associate Editor. Her recent NSF and NASA-funded projects have examined career stereotyping and evaluated curriculum tools. Dr. Nassar-McMillan’s undergirding areas of scholarship and consulting include acculturation, advocacy, career development and under-representation issues, program evaluation, clinical supervision, and internationalization. She was named the Michael G. Morris Endowed Chair from Eastern Michigan University's College of Education for 2014.

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