Sasse named Interim Dean for Professional Studies and Applied Sciences
CHADRON – Dr. Grant Sasse has been named the Interim Dean for Professional Studies and Applied Sciences (PSAS) Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Powell announced in early January. The former dean, Dr. Alaric Williams, is taking a position in North Dakota. The School of PSAS includes Education, Psychological Sciences, Social Work, Health Physical Education and Recreation, Family and Consumer Sciences, Agriculture and Range Management, and Military Science and Leadership.
Sasse, an associate professor, has been teaching graduate-level Clinical Mental Health Counseling courses at CSC since August 2021. He earned his doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Wyoming in 2014.
In 2007, Sasse transferred to CSC after two years at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. He graduated with a bachelor’s in Psychology at CSC and earned a master’s in Community Mental Health Counseling while working as a graduate assistant for the Counseling, Psychology, and Social Work department. Through the assistantship, he gained his first teaching experience and participated on the Eagles’ track and field team.
Sasse said he considers the Chadron area home. Since his father was a pilot in the Air Force, the family moved often. However, Sasse worked every summer on a family ranch near Gordon where his father grew up, or at the family farm in Holstein, Nebraska, where his mother was raised.
Prior to CSC, Sasse taught for six years at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, Alaska, and spent one year in Houston, Texas, at the University of St. Thomas.
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