Westbury Resident Recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award

April 29, 2004 — Dr. June Ann Smith, Associate Professor of Education at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, was awarded the 2005 David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching on April 5, 2005. The award is administered by Long Island University.

The Westbury resident specializes in counseling and development and is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW), a Certified Family Therapist (CFT), and a Certified Clinical Supervisor (ACS). She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Human Services and an M.A. in Curriculum and Instructional Supervision from Andrews University in Michigan. She also holds a B.A. in Secondary Education from West Indies College (Jamaica) and an M.S.W. from New York’s Yeshiva University. Prior to joining the faculty at C.W. Post in 1997, Dr. Smith was an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University, where she taught in the graduate counseling program.

Dr. Smith entered the field of counseling after five years as a high school science teacher and department chairperson in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and a college counselor in Michigan. She has coordinated the Mental Health Graduate Counseling Program at C.W. Post since 2002 and has been the faculty advisor for Chi Sigma Iota, the International Honor Society for Professional Counselors since 1997.

In her private practice, Dr. Smith provides family and child/adolescent counseling, as well as career counseling. Dr. Smith is an active presenter of topics specific to the family structure. Her most recent presentation was to the Greater New York Directors of Family Services in Manhasset, where her lecture topic was “Understanding Domestic Violence.” Her publications include a 2004 article in The Journal of Counseling andValues, which addressed the most effective approaches for counseling infertile couples.

A campus-based Newton Awards Committee chooses award recipients based on nominations provided by academic departments or divisions. Presentation, attitude, expectations of students, and professional development and knowledge are the criteria used by the committee to determine teaching excellence. Newton was executive vice-president of Long Island University from 1975 to 1987. The University offered the first Newton award in 1988.

The award is endowed by former Long Island University trustee Abraham Krasnoff.