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Religion professor welcomes retirement Victoria Slaten
vslaten@txwes.edu
After many years, the call for a new adventure has finally sounded loud enough for Dr. Jesse Sowell to answer. Dr. Sowell, religion professor at Wesleyan, will be retiring at the end of the 2013 Spring semester after being at Texas Wesleyan University for 38 years. Sowell said before he became a professor, he was a pastor at the United Methodist Church. “After I got my seminary degree,” Sowell said, “I knew immediately that I really wanted to take some area of religion and specialize in it.” Sowell said he came into teaching by accident. He said when he was acting as the chaplain of a junior college and pastor of a church, the president of the college asked him to help take over the classes of a professor who left in the middle of the year. After that, Sowell said he realized he loved to teach. “So I decided that my particular gifts were more suited to being able to teach religion and philosophy and still be available as a resource person for people in churches,” Sowell said. Dr. Bruce McDonald, religion professor, has known Sowell for 17 and a half years. McDonald said when Sowell was going on sabbatical, a woman from McDonald’s church, who used to teach at Wesleyan, told Sowell that he should talk to McDonald, who had just finished his doctorate a year prior, about taking over his classes while he was away. McDonald said he ended up staying at Wesleyan after that. “He is one of the best-natured people and one of the most level-headed,” McDonald said about Sowell. “You
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Students support Super Bowl at Stella
Lupe Salas/Rambler Staff (Front)Jisvi Padilla, junior math major, Anagabriela Segoria, sophomore psychology major, and Aaron Perry II, freshman computer science major, sit in the front watching the broadcast of Superbowl XLVII. (Back) Dhaifallah Alajmi, freshman accounting major, Mohammed Ali, freshman computer science major, and Mansour Alrasheed, freshman accounting major, cheered for their favorite team at the Superbowl XLVII party in Stella Hall.
Solution focused therapy gives students perspective Rolandra West
rdwest@txwes.edu
Solution focused therapy improvises a way to help individuals seek solutions to their own problems. Whether individuals needed help in relationships or their personal lives, it has been a success for many students and counselors. The Glick House Community Counseling Center provides the help of therapists who are specialized in solution focused therapy. The counselors include students from the graduate counseling program and clinical graduate faculty members. Linda Metcalf, professor of graduate counseling, happens to have a private practice at the Glick House. “The solution focused counselor does not go in
trying to fix anything. They are not the expert. Instead they see the client as the expert,” Metcalf said. “The word positive is usually what people say about it, but it is really not that positive of a process; it’s a curious process.” Metcalf said the process sounds pretty simple, but it can be complicated. Metcalf said she sees clients with every kind of problem from eating disorders, depression, anger, to marriage and family issues. “The solution focused counselor believes there have been times in that client’s life when things have gone well,” Metcalf said. “We quickly turn it [counseling session] into ‘tell me about times when things were slightly better’, inevitably it always is.” Metcalf said those who
are interested in counseling can make an appointment; the sessions typically last an hour. “I typically see people maybe five or six times at the most. Because it’s not a model that goes into details of the past, people tend to get better pretty quick,” Metcalf said. “People are competent; they just get blind-sided by the things that get in their way, and they forget the times when they’ve been successful. Metcalf said every summer she takes one student to London to learn about solution focused therapy at Bries Therapy practice. “We learn about it for two weeks, and students come back excited because it is a great way to work and be a counselor,” Metcalf said. If a student is looking for a counselor, there are many
ways to find people who do solution focused therapy, and there are plenty in the Glick House who are specialized in the process, Metcalf said. “In addition to solution focus I use a little something called narrative therapy with that because the narrative therapy is similar to solution focus only it believes our lives are like stories and they are,” Metcalf said. “The way we story things either help us do well or help us not do well.” Rebekah Bynum, graduate counseling student and practicum student intern at the Glick house, said solution focused therapy works for her as a counselor because it is very brief. “It is very goal-oriented, so it helps the client recognize their goal. Some
people just come in with a problem and don’t realize what they would like to be better in their lives,” Metcalf said. “They just know they don’t want that problem to happen anymore.” Bynum said the therapy keeps people from focusing on what is wrong in their lives and figuring out what could be better. Monica Maldonado, junior education major said, the Glick House is able to work around a student’s schedule. “I loved being able to talk to someone I didn’t have to see everyday,” Maldonado said. “It was nice talking to someone who did not have any bias on the things going on. It was a friendly environment.” For more information visit http:// txwes.edu/life/counseling. aspx.
Business school promotes MBA program with video series Santiago Munoz
smunoz1367@txwes.edu
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Several business professors at Wesleyan have huddled up collectively to provide insightful information to prospective students who are interested in joining a Master of Business Administration program at Texas Wesleyan. During Fall 2012, several small view videos were produced in the Marketing Communications production studio that can be easily accessed by prospective students who are interested in learning better business leadership skills and earning an MBA at Wesleyan. These videos can be accessed by going to Wesleyan’s home page, click the “Graduate” link toward the bottom of the page, then click on the “Business” link at the top of that page. From that page, viewers can access several
videos that focus on areas of business that future business majors are interested in. Dr. Sameer Vaidya, associate dean and professor of management, said the MBA program is doing these promotional videos in conjunction with other professors, each one discussing a different business element. He said the MBA program hopes to help raise awareness of the program for prospective MBA students. “If you look on the website for the MBA program, you might find other professors also discussing other elements of what is important in business,” Vaidya said. “So this was not just a stand alone video but count it together as a package to show prospective MBA students the different things that go on when they get admitted or they apply for an MBA program and start it here.”
Vaidya said in an email he wasn’t yet aware of any students expressing interest in joining the program due to the videos. “I am not aware of any students joining the program just because of the video,” Vaidya said. “We have had several students join the program in Spring 2013 but we did not ask them if they had watched the videos.” Darren White, web content specialist at Wesleyan, helped produce the promotional videos for the MBA program. He said the website videos were produced to accommodate a larger admission strategy for potential graduate students who are in pursuit of completing an MBA program. He said prospective students can excel in an environment like Wesleyan. “We want potential graduate students to know about the program,” White said.
“The core identity of this school is a place where people can thrive because of ‘Smaller. Smarter.’ experience as well.” Claudia Gonzalez, junior business major, said the promotional YouTube videos are efficient and informative. She said they provided her with good information, and
also inspired her to continue her business studies through Wesleyan’s MBA program. “I think it’s inspiring and encouraging because they’re first hand. They’re from the professors who are actually going to be teaching,” Gonzalez said. “You can see the one-on-one effort that these professors will put into your