Ellen Weaver Paquette
Ellen Weaver Paquette has taught career counseling courses for 30 years to thousands of graduate students at three colleges/universities (mostly first-generation college students as undergraduates) who were preparing to assist disenfranchised populations gain traction in education and employment. Her CAGS thesis examined the attributes of success through professional counseling functions for cooperative education faculty and staff in New England. Her work continues to be cited in new journal articles. She was the Guest Editor of the referred Journal of Cooperative Education, and guest author. She has trained adults in workforce development in state agencies, higher education and K-12 environments. She has offered many FCD courses in the United States and in the Middle East (including Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkey, UAE) and in Malaysia, Singapore, and Ukraine. She has trained most of the current NCDA Instructors and several now Master Trainers. She is well known for her work in career development in higher education as a Director of a Career Center, (direct contact with 2,000 students annually), as an Associate Director for a college-wide advising center (all new and transfer students direct contact with 1,500 students annually) and for her college committee work on student retention. She has taught graduate courses in career counseling in person and online and offered career development workshops in LMI through the RI Department of Labor and Training.
