Stuart Chen-Hayes of Plainsboro received the 2008 Human Rights Award from the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. The award was presented at the annual American Counseling Association conference in Honolulu on March 29.##M:[more]##
“I am very honored by this award, which comes during my 15th year as a counselor educator,” said Chen-Hayes, a member of the faculty of Lehman College’s Department of Counseling, Leadership, Literacy and Special Education. “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.”
Chen-Hayes has written and spoken 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, 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 and school counseling curriculum, which included transforming the field to focus on multicultural and equity issues in schools.
In 2007 Chen-Hayes was named a “Leader of the Field” by Microtraining Associates, 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 co-founded, 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.
He received his bachelor and master’s degrees from Indiana University and a doctorate from Kent State University.
