Professional Activities

After almost a year of dedicated preparation, Dr. Joe Yazvac of the Counseling Center has passed the national Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) and received Board approval to be licensed as a psychologist in the State of New Hampshire. Sitting for this examination requires a candidate to demonstrate a wide breadth of knowledge determined to be foundational to the competent practice of psychology. It truly is a major undertaking for any psychologist and it is an enormous benefit to the Counseling Center and the College as Joe’s licensure provides additional confirmation of our highly qualified staff.

Professor Jerry P. Jasinski, Chemistry, was selected to participate in the College Board’s Annual Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations Reading in Chemistry in June. Jerry and roughly 200 other high school AP teachers and college educators from around the world gathered to work together for a week in Louisville, KY to evaluate and score the free-response sections from over 123,000 AP Exams. After a day of training on the College Board’s rubric, Jerry spent the week reading thousands of students’ answers to one question, on electrochemistry. AP Readers are high school and college educators who represent many of the finest academic institutions in the world. The AP Reading is a unique forum in which an academic dialogue between high school and college educators is both fostered and encouraged. The Advanced Placement Program (AP) enables willing and academically prepared students to pursue college-level studies – with the opportunity to earn college credit, advanced placement or both – while still in high school. In 2011, more than 11,000 AP Readers evaluated more than 3.4 million AP Exams.