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October 9-11, 2008
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Guest Speaker: Dr. Nancy Schlossberg
What's Next? - A Never Ending Question
(Photo by Molly McCartney)
BIOGRAPHY
Nancy K. Schlossberg is an expert in the areas of adult transitions, retirement, career development, adults as learners, and intergenerational relationships. Past President of the National Career Development Association, Co-President of a consulting group TransitionWorks, she is a Professor Emerita, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, College of Education at the University of Maryland. She previously served on the faculties of Wayne State University, Howard University, and Pratt Institute. She was the first woman executive at the American Council of Education (ACE) where she established the Office of Women in Higher Education (1973). She later served as a Senior Fellow at ACE's Center on Adult Learning.
Her books include Overwhelmed: Coping with Life's Ups and Downs, second edition (M.Evans, November,2007); Retire Smart:Retire Happy: Finding Your True Path (American Psychological Association, 2004); Getting the Most Out of College (Arthur Chickering, first author, Prentice Hall, 2001); Counseling Adults in Transition, 3rd Edition (with Jane Goodman and Mary L. Anderson, Springer Press, 2006); Going to Plan B: How You Can Cope, Regroup, and Start Your Life on a New Path, final nominee for Books for a Better Life (with Susan P. Robinson, Simon & Schuster, 1996). Earlier books include Improving Higher Education Environments for Adults (with Ann Lynch & Arthur Chickering, Jossey-Bass, 1989), Perspectives on Counseling Adults (with Lillian Troll & Zandy Leibowitz, Krieger Publishing Co., 1986 reprint).
Dr. Schlossberg has delivered more than 100 keynote addresses including one at the Japan Career Development Association (650 participants, 2000); the Council of Presidents of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities 1999); the national convention of the American Counselors' Association (65,000 members); and the Smithsonian/American Psychological Association's series on mid-life. She has been quoted in the cover story in USA Today, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Reader's Digest, Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens, U.S.News and World, Consumer Reports, and has appeared on PBS In the Prime, Derek McGinty's national talk radio show, CBS This Morning, CBS evening news and is featured in a 90-minute PBS Pledge†Special†June, 2007, "Retire Smart, Retire Happy."). A DVD, “Retire Smart, Retire Happy” featuring Dr. Schlossberg will be available through Amazon and WGBH November, 1.
Dr. Schlossberg's honors and awards include: Inaugural lecture in recognition of innovative research and outstanding scholarship at the Distinguished Lecturer Series, Department of Counseling, College of Education, University of Maryland 2004); Honorary member, Japan Career Development Advisory Committee;Sarasota;Board of Management, Cosmos Club (1996-1998); University of Maryland's Women of Distinction; first visiting endowed chair in Adult Career Development at the University of Minnesota; Walter Storey Career Development Professional Award of the American Society for Training and Development; delegate and alternate delegate to two White House Conferences on Aging; Fellow, three divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA); Fellow, Gerontological Association; APA's G. Stanley Hall Lecturer on Adult Development; and Distinguished Scholar at the University of Maryland. She received awards from The National Career Development Association, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and American College Personnel Association.
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Annual Meetings
Once a year, we invite all FAUSA members to join us for fun, friendship, and a bit of business at the FAUSA Annual Meeting. The meeting consists of receptions, speakers, conference sessions, and special tours.
Past FAUSA Conferences
In 2007, our meeting was held in the heart of New York City.
The featured speaker was Virginia Hazzard
Other past FAUSA Conferences have taken place in Chicago, Cape Code, Montana, and Seattle.
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