Edwin L. Herr, Ed.D.

Edwin L. Herr, Distinguished Professor of Education, Emeritus (Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology)

Edwin Herr has published over 300 journal articles, chapters, and books. He has served as a consultant, speaker, or workshop leader for numerous school systems, foundations, universities, government agencies, corporations and publishers (specifics available upon request).

• Served on panel of experts selected to advise U.S. Asst. Secretary of Education (OERI)
• Consultant on Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act of U.S. Department of Education, Bureau of Vocational and Adult Education
• Consultant to Lilley Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Foundation
• Testified regularly in behalf of guidance and counseling, higher education, career education, career guidance and vocational education.
• Appeared before the U.S. House Representatives Subcommittee on Ways and Means (1968), U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor (1972, l976, l978, 1980, 1984, 1989), the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education (1982), the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education (1982), the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education reauthorization (1984).
• Testified before the Federal Committee on Apprenticeships (March 14, l980).
• Testified before the National Research Council, Committee on Vocational Education and Research, Guidance and Counseling Research and Development (May 13, l975).
• Testified before committees of U. S. Congress on eight occasions dealing with legislation on counseling, career guidance, vocational education and higher education.
• Have served as the Principal Investigator or Project Director for several research or training grants funded by the National Institute of Education; the College Board; the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Office of Career Education; the Pennsylvania Department of Education; the Governors Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse; Shell Foundation; the U.S. Department of Labor; the Lilly Endowment.
• Have chaired major committees and task forces for various State and Federal agencies including chair, State Advisory Committee on ESEA I and III; Chair, State Advisory Committee on ESEA IV; Chair, national Institute of Education Panel G. Evaluation Team for Career Education Task Force (chaired the Review of the Ohio State University, Appalachian Educational Laboratory and North Carolina State University, l973); Chair, The State Advisory Committee on Vocational Personnel Development; Chair, Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Career Guidance.
• Have served as a member of the National Commission on Secondary Vocational Education, U.S. Department of Education (the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (1984-85); the College Board National Commission on Precollege Counseling and Guidance (1984-86); the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (1983-84); The National Research Panel on the Impact of the Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act on State Government, U.S. Department of Education (1985- ); Principal, Career Counseling, Consultation and Assessment Associates (Part-time Private Practice) (1985- ); Member, The Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee on Vocational Education (1986-88); Member, Advisory Council, National Assessment for Vocational Education
• (1987- ); Chair, Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Career Guidance (1988-1990); Member, Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Vocational Personnel Development (1985-1988); Educational Testing Service, Advisory Committee on the Guidance/School Counselor Tests and the NTE (1989-91); Member, Advisory Board, NIMH Project on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, University of Maryland (1994- ).
• Re-elected to a second four-year term on the 13 member Board of Directors of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance. He is the only member from the United States serving on the Board of Directors (1996).
• Consultant, Sloan Foundation; Lilly Endowment; DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Foundation.
• Selected to serve as an ACT Visiting Scholar for 1998. While in Iowa City, April 19-21, 1998 provided three presentations for ACT staff and administrators on the importance of assessment in career transitions, the current state of assessment in the United States, and emerging trends in career counseling. Also provided the Visiting Scholar Lecture for ACT and University of Iowa faculty on the topic: “Planning for Life Career Transitions. Systematic Approaches.”

International Participation

• Represented The Pennsylvania State University in consultations with the U.S. Air Force about graduate education in Europe, Wiesbaden, Germany, June 1969.
• Represented The Pennsylvania State University in consultation with the Panama Canal Zone Company about graduate education in the Canal Zone, Balboa, C.Z., June 1974.
• Have served as a visiting professor, researcher, or in other professional roles in international assignments in Canada, England, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Germany, Panama, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan (Republic of China) and South Africa. Served as coordinator of the Eighth and Ninth International Round Tables for the Advancement of Counseling at the University of Oslo (1978) and the University of Thessaloniki (1980) and the IRTAC Consultation on Career Guidance in Higher Education, Cambridge University, England (1981). Served as Coordinator, Tenth International Round Table for the Advancement of Counseling, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (1982).
• Served as the co-chair, theme speaker, and conference summarizer of the first British Association of Counseling/American Association of Counseling and Development Conference on Challenges of Cultural and Racial Diversity in Counseling in Britain and the United States. Brunel University, London, England, June 24-29, l989.
• Major lecturing and research appointments have included: Visiting Professor, Guidance Institute for Developing Nations, University of Reading, England, Spring l967. Chairman, Vocational Guidance Section, Conference IV Education and Youth Problems, Ditchley Park, Enstone, England (July 7-10, l972) (Ditchley Foundation) Visiting Fellow, National Institute for Careers Education and Counseling, Cambridge, England (Sabbatical Leave), May-August, l976. Asia Foundation Lecturer, Tokyo, Japan, December 1978. Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan (May-June 1979). Yoshida International Education Foundation Lecturer to Japan, November-December 1981. Counseling Institute of Sophia University. Consultant. Tokyo, Japan, November 28-December 4, 1981.
• Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada (January-March, 1989; Visiting Professor, University of Lisbon (May 1997).
• Served as an elected member of the eight-person Executive Committee of the International Round Table for the Advancement of Counseling (IRTAC) headquartered in London and Brussels (1976-1984). Elected Honorary Consultant to the Executive Council (1988- ).
• Elected to the Board of Directors, International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (1991-1995). Re-elected in Stockholm to a second four-year term (1996-2000). Chair of the Ethic Committee of IAEVG; authored the Ethical Standards for the Association.
• Served as a consultant on policy formulation and on career counseling for the Canadian Immigration and Employment Commission (Ottawa) (1981-1983).
• Prepared the conceptual proposal (36 pages) for an International Center for the Advancement of Counseling, American Association for Counseling and Development Foundation (1987).
• Serve as an External Evaluator, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada (1984- ), and as a research consultant to the Canadian Guidance and Counseling Foundation (1989- ). Serve as an external thesis advisor for universities in Australia, Canada, Nigeria, and South Africa.
• Served as a member of an accreditation or evaluation team in Counseling Psychology at the University of Alberta (Edmondton) (1995) and the University of British Columbia (1996).
• Serve as a member, International Relations Committee, American Association for Counseling and Development (1988- ). Appointed Co-Chair, (1989-1990).
• Served as the U. S. Representative on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Education and Vocational Guidance that met concurrently with the International Conference on Unemployment and Counseling held at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, October 3-6, 1993.

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