{"id":27318,"date":"2019-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-counseling-professor-named-organization-president\/"},"modified":"2021-11-12T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:06:00","slug":"tarleton-counseling-professor-named-organization-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-counseling-professor-named-organization-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton counseling professor named organization president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;Tarleton State University professor Dr. Ryan Foster has been named president-elect of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC), a national division of the American Counseling Association.<\/p>\n<p>Foster, an assistant professor and clinic coordinator in the department of counseling at Tarleton in Waco, will begin serving a three-year term as president-elect in July, then become president of the organization a year later. He has served as a board member for ASERVIC since 2013. He also co-chaired the 2018 national conference in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am deeply honored to have been elected to this position with ASERVIC,&rdquo; Foster said. &ldquo;I believe in servant leadership, and this is one way I can give back to a profession that has given so much meaning to me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>ASERVIC is devoted to professionals who believe that spiritual, ethical, religious and other human values are essential to a person&rsquo;s full development and to the discipline of counseling.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second largest division of the American Counseling Association, with a mission to help counselors, supervisors, counselor educators and counseling students competently integrate spiritual, ethical and religious values into their work with clients.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding&nbsp;member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p><span>Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<\/span><br \/><span>817-484-4415<\/span><br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton State University professor Dr. Ryan Foster has been named president-elect of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC), a national division of the American Counseling Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,425,427],"tags":[439,459],"class_list":["post-27318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community","category-science-health","tag-division-of-health-sciences","tag-tarleton-state-waco"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-774-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/campus-community\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/science-health\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Science &amp; Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Science &amp; Health<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/science-health\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Division of Health Sciences<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/science-health\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tarleton State Waco<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Division of Health Sciences<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tarleton State Waco<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 19, 2019","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 19, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021 1:06 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Man with glasses smiling in front of a blurred painting.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}