Meet A&P
"A" otherwise known as
Amber Manning-Ouellette, PhD
Dr. Amber Manning-Ouellette is an Assistant Professor in Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) at Oklahoma State University. She holds the Anderson, Farris, and Halligan Professorship for College Student Development. Additionally, Dr. Manning-Ouellette is a Certified Career Counselor (CCC) with experience in teaching, coaching, and advising college students on career development. She is certified to teach the Facilitating Career Development (FCD) course from the National Career Development Association (NCDA). Her scholarly work and research foci include socially just leadership education, college student learning and identity development, and postsecondary sexual health education in student affairs. Dr. Manning-Ouellette examines these research areas through various contexts including international education, sexual health education, STEM education, and career development. She teaches a variety of courses such as student development theory, college students and career development, assessment in higher education and student affairs, college student sexuality, and introduction to student affairs.
Dr. Manning-Ouellette is a scholar practitioner and has authored several articles and book chapters on a number of topics across higher education and student affairs. Selected juried articles include research on exploring civic attitudes and skills of first year students in the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, how service-learning influences the persistence of women in STEM fields published in the Journal of the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, and exploring intellectual disability as diversity in higher education in the Journal of College and Character. Dr. Manning-Ouellette is the co-editor of Emerging International Issues in Student Affairs Research and Practice as part of the books series International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice.
Previously, Dr. Manning-Ouellette worked in student affairs administration for over 10 years in various roles while completing her Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Administration and Higher Education at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). During that time, she served as the director of enrollment management for the College of Business, focusing on the recruitment and retention strategies of undergraduate students. In addition, she served as a student success coordinator for the first-year experience office where she oversaw 90 sections of first-year seminar courses, developed co-curricular programs, and managed faculty development. Finally, she served as a lecturer of leadership studies at Iowa State University and coordinated a global leadership study abroad trip to Stockholm, Sweden for several years.
"P" otherwise known as
Pam Ehlers, PhD
Dr. Pamela Ehlers is the Director Emerita of Oklahoma State University Career Services. She completed both her bachelors and masters degrees in education from Oklahoma State University, a career counseling specialist degree from Pittsburg State University (Kansas), and a doctorate degree in higher educational leadership from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.
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Dr. Ehlers returned to her alma mater as Director of OSU Career Services in June 2006 after serving 13 years at Pittsburg State University as the Director of Career Services. She is an affiliate faculty member (Rtd.) in the Higher Education Student Affairs (HESA) graduate program in the College of Education and Human Services at OSU and has taught graduate courses in career counseling and development for many years.
She is a Master Career Counselor (MCC), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a National Certified Career Counselor (NCCC), a Facilitating Career Development Master Trainer (FCDMT), and a School Career Development Advisor Trainer (SCDAT). She has over 35 years experience in the field of career counseling and development and administration in higher education. She supervised career counseling interns at OSU and has taught the Facilitating Career Development course for the National Career Development Association (NCDA) since 2011. She is also a member of the Training and Education Council (TEC) for NCDA.