Sandra L. Caron, Sexuality Professor, Therapist and Creator, to Be Inducted into the Maine Ladies’s Corridor of Fame March 18, 2023
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Sandra L. Caron, Ph.D. Professor of Household Relations and Human Sexuality, College of Maine, therapist and creator, Sandra L. Caron is the 2023 inductee into the Maine Ladies’s Corridor of Fame.
The Maine Ladies’s Corridor of Fame was established in 1990 by the BPW/Maine Futurama Basis. The induction ceremony is often held on the College of Maine at Augusta (UMA) on the third Saturday of March, in observance of Ladies’s Historical past Month. UMA maintains a everlasting Maine Ladies’s Corridor of Fame show of pictures and citations for all honorees within the Bennett D. Katz Library.
The BPW/Maine Futurama Basis maintains an lively scholarship program. Since 1962, when the primary small scholarship was introduced, it has been serving to Maine ladies obtain financial self-sufficiency by awarding scholarships to excellent and deserving ladies. Recipients of those scholarships have gone on to contribute to the financial well-being of their households and the State of Maine.
Caron, a longtime professor of household relations and human sexuality on the College of Maine (UMaine), joins an esteemed record of honorees, beginning with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in 1990 and final yr together with Julia Kahrl and Jessica Meir. The Maine Ladies’s Corridor of Fame acknowledges these whose achievements have had a big statewide affect, considerably improved the lives of girls in Maine, and contributed an everlasting worth for ladies.
Caron shall be inducted in a ceremony on Saturday, March 18, at 2 p.m. within the Farber Discussion board in Jewett Corridor on the College of Maine at Augusta, 46 College Drive, Augusta, Maine. To attend, please ship an e mail to futuramafound@gmail.org along with your identify, e mail deal with, and group affiliation.
Caron, an Orono resident, is a pioneer in sexuality schooling, broadly recognized all through Maine, revered nationally and internationally for her artistic educating and groundbreaking analysis in sexuality schooling. Her involvement and contributions to UMaine and within the state have touched numerous lives and contributed to inclusivity in communities.
Caron is a member of the American Affiliation of Intercourse Educators Counselors and Therapists, and The Society for the Scientific Examine of Sexuality. Since becoming a member of the UM school in 1988, Caron has taught undergraduate and graduate programs, together with the favored undergraduate course in human sexuality. She can also be a member of the ladies’s, gender and sexuality research school. Within the span of her UMaine profession, Caron has taught over 25,000 college students. She additionally has devoted numerous hours to tasks that advance a extra inclusive and socially simply society and college neighborhood. Her affect is wide-ranging, having mentored lots of of scholars from Maine.
Caron’s analysis and publications deal with the social-sexual improvement of younger individuals.
She is a licensed scientific skilled counselor specializing in sexuality-related points and has authored a number of books on sexuality, together with Intercourse Issues for School College students: Intercourse FAQs in Human Sexuality (2nd Version); Intercourse Across the World: Cross-Cultural Views on Human Sexuality; and a kids’s guide, Birds and Bees and Extra: How Infants Are Made and Households Type. Her latest guide relies on her analysis over the previous 30 years, The Intercourse Lives of School College students: Three Many years of Attitudes and Behaviors.
Caron acquired the College of Maine Alumni Affiliation’s 2019 Distinguished Maine Professor Award that acknowledges the best qualities of educating, analysis and public service. She acquired UMaine’s 1998 Presidential Excellent Instructing Award and the 2002 Presidential Public Service Award. In 2013 she was acknowledged by the Mabel Wadsworth Ladies’s Well being Middle for her lifelong contribution to sexual and reproductive well being, and in 1999, she acquired the Margaret Vaughn award from the Maine Household Planning for her excellent contribution to sexuality schooling.