A team of University of New Orleans students took first place in the American Counseling Association (ACA) Graduate Student Ethics Competition.
Kelly Fleenor, Keith Brown and Emily Byrnes, all graduate students in the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling and Foundations, won in the master’s level category. They will be presented with awards during the ACA Annual Conference, which will take place in March at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
The purpose of the ACA Ethics Competition is to educate members of the association on ethical issues, and to engage students in critically analyzing a potential ethical case and creating an appropriate ethical decision-making plan to respond to the ethical scenario. Members of the ACA ethics committee created a mock ethical scenario that addressed a current issue facing the counseling profession.
UNO’s team, which was advised by UNO professor Barbara Herlihy, competed against other counselor education programs. The winning team members will each receive a $75 gift certificate to the ACA bookstore, a certificate and a letter of recognition for their achievement.