MEET THE FACULTY

Doris Carroll

Doris Wright Carroll is an Associate Professor in Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs. She is a recognized graduate teaching expert in counselor education, multicultural competency, distance education and academic advising. Her teaching philosophy has evolved from her clinical work, and encourages student engagement, cultural humility and multicultural cultural practice. In recent years, Dr. Carroll served as mentor for ethnic minority graduate students selected for the Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program (IMFP), a grant funded program from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration designed to reduce health disparities within ethnic minority communities. Dr. Carroll’s research interests involve reducing racial and gendered microaggressions and enhancing cultural humility in counseling practice. 

Stephen Craig

Stephen E. Craig comes to Kansas State University and the Department of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs after serving for 25 years as professor in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University. While at WMU, he served in numerous capacities, including unit director of counselor education, coordinator of clinical mental health counseling, and CACREP liaison. Dr. Craig has extensive experience in the CACREP accreditation process having served as primary author on two accreditation self-studies and service as an accreditation site visitor on multiple visits across the country. His primary research and professional interests are in clinical mental health counseling, ethical and legal issues (e.g., licensure laws and administrative rules), theories of counseling and psychotherapy, and most recently, preparing and training counselors and allied health professionals in Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment for people with problematic substance use. He has been a co-principal investigator or co-project director on over $1 million dollars in externally funded grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, and Michigan Rehabilitation Services.

Lorraine Dinkel

Lorraine Dinkel is an Associate Teaching Professor for the counseling programs in the Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs at Kansas State University. She was an Associate Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator at Emporia State University, in Emporia, Kansas, for one year, after serving as an Associate Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator for ten years at Texas A&M International University.She brings over 22 years of school counseling, mental health counseling, and supervision experience to her teaching and research on graduate counselor preparation, crisis, grief, school violence, and multicultural issues in counseling and supervision. She is the author of Perceptions of Diversity and Integration Resulting in Crisis: A Reflective Workbook. She earned her doctorate in counselor education from the University of New Orleans in 2011. Dr. Dinkel previously worked as a school counselor, an intake assessment officer, and a licensed professional counselor in psychiatric units serving children and adolescents before establishingherself as a counselor educator and supervisor, including her own private supervision practice, Alchemy Agents, LLC.

Samantha Holloway

Samantha Holloway is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Counselor Education and Supervision at Kansas State University. Dr. Holloway spent seven years as a high school counselor in rural Kansas prior to her employment with Kansas State University. Dr. Holloway completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Washburn University, Master of Science in School Counseling, and Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision from Kansas State University.

Jessica Lane

Jessica Lane is an Associate Professor in Counselor Education and Supervision at Kansas State University and serves as the Counseling Programs Coordinator. In 2018, Dr. Lane was named the Kansas counselor of the year. Prior to serving as a counselor educator, Lane was an elementary teacher and school counselor in Kansas. She also served as faculty for nine years in preparing P-12 preservice teachers at Kansas State. In addition to her co-edited book, numerous book chapters, and counseling articles and presentations, Dr. Lane serves as a consultant for school counselors, principals, and school districts for schools across Kansas as they work to enhance their school counseling programs, crisis plans, and leadership capacity. Her research interests include collaboration between school counselors and administrators; social-emotional advocacy and support; rural counseling and mental health.