Goals

1. Ensure that professional activities are guided by intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, compassion and high ethical standards.

2. Acknowledge that truth is not singular and seek a more complex and complete understanding of human behavior.

3. Create a learning community that promotes democratic values and constructivist learning practices.

4. Acknowledge the evaluation responsibility of educators including the promotion of informed, data-based, formative and summative feedback.

5. Challenge dogma encountered in classrooms and clinics and encourage inquiry.

6. Utilize critical thinking and social vision to promote program transformation and policy development.

7. Promote a systems perspective on intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics, as well as on social and political transactions.

8. Commit to an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to facilitating change.

9. Transcend the University’s physical boundaries and link with the community in order to improve educational opportunities for children, adults and families.

10. Recognize the interconnectedness of teaching, research, service and clinical practice in the professional practice of counselor educators and supervisors.

11. Support helping professionals in their ongoing attempts to address their own emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical well-being.