Shippensburg University is honored to present Dr. Marcelle Giovannetti ’19D, as this year’s spring graduate commencement speaker. This semester’s Graduate Commencement Ceremony will be held on Friday, May 9, at 7:00 pm in the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center (LPAC), with a reception immediately following in the Tuscarora Room located in Reisner Dining Hall.
Giovannetti, vice provost, leads the Division of Student Success and Engagement at Messiah University. Her areas of oversight include: The Next Steps certificate program for inclusive post-secondary education, Agape Center for Global and Local Engagement, Office of Student Success, the Career and Professional Development Center, Campus Ministries, The Engle Center for Health and Counseling Services, Office of Student Engagement, First-Year Experience and Student Leadership Programs, Residence Life and Housing. She also serves as advisor to the Student Government Association (SGA). An alumna of Shippensburg University, she earned both a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and a doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision. In addition, she received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Elizabethtown College. She also has a postgraduate certificate in social justice from Harvard University.
Giovannetti credits the robust education she received at Shippensburg University as the catalyst that ignited her career in higher education and clinical work. She has served in a variety of roles as a subject matter expert for the National Board of Certified Counselors, a clinician in private practice and owner of Courageous Hope Counseling LLC, associate professor in Messiah University’s Graduate Counseling Program and adjunct instructor at Shippensburg University. She has presented at national, regional, state, and local conferences. She recently served an eight-year term on the board of directors for the PA Certification Board and held leadership positions such as chair of their Ethics Committee and was vice president of their board of directors. She is now the senior co-chair of the American Counseling Association’s ethics revision code task force.
She is passionate about easing human suffering in the world and advocating for equitable access to education for all students.
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