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Thomas W. Hosie
A Mississippi State University administrator is receiving a major honor of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.
Thomas W. Hosie, professor and head of the department of counselor education and educational psychology, is one of two selected this year for the association's Distinguished Professional Service Awards. He is recognized for professional service deemed to be of national importance to the counseling profession.
The association is a division of the Alexandria, Va.-based American Counseling Association, the sole national organization for counselor educators. ACA's membership includes more than 2,700 individuals spread among five regional organizations and 48 state branches.
An MSU department head since 1996, Hosie served as ACES president 1989-90, during which he planned and presided over the organization's 50th anniversary celebration. Among contributions cited in the award: leadership in passage of an ACES code of ethics for supervisors, instituting a research award program for the organization and convening the ACES Marriage and Family Network with several other organizations to agree on training standards for marriage and family counselors.
A professor emeritus and former department chair at Louisiana State University, Hosie also has served as president of the Louisiana ACES and as the vice president of the Association for Humanistic Education and Development. He co-authored the Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselor Bill and served on the editing boards of numerous professional publications, including Humanist Educator, The Personnel and Guidance Journal and the ACES national journal, Counselor Education and Supervision.
His teaching specialties include interpersonal communications, advanced counseling theory and family counseling, among others.
A Buffalo, N.Y., native, Hosie received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo.