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The Professional Counselor \Volume 4, Issue 4 355 educators initiated responses, with 62 completing the full survey. While the initial response rate was 31%, the survey completion rate was 29%. The number of responses to individual items varied from 59–62. The sample size was insufficient to make valid within- and between-groups comparisons. Participants and Program Information The counselor educators who completed the survey included 24 males (41%) and 35 females (59%). Most were Caucasian ( n = 55, 90%). Two were African American (3%), one each identified as Asian American or Latino (2%), and two indicated “other.” The authors asked participants how many study-abroad, immersion or international travel experiences they had taken part in as either a participant or facilitator. Equal numbers of respondents reported either none or more than four ( n = 13, 21% in each group), and one participant noted having more than 25 such experiences. Slightly fewer respondents reported one international experience ( n = 11, 18%), and six (10%) reported two such experiences. Program-level information that the respondents provided is included in Table 1. As one can see from this table, more than one-third of the respondents were from the Southern Region (37.7%), slightly more than one- quarter were from the North Central Region (27.9%), and substantially fewer were from the North Atlantic, Rocky Mountain or Western Regions. This distribution of respondents approximates the ACES regional membership, which includes regional percentages of 41.3% Southern, 26.4% North Central, 17.3% North Atlantic, 8.7% Western and 6.3% Rocky Mountain. All the programs that the respondents represented offered a master’s degree and 34% offered a doctoral degree. Accredited program tracks varied, with most programs offering clinical mental health or community counseling tracks (90.3%) and school counseling tracks (74.1%). Though there was no place for respondents to indicate the student enrollment of their programs, the average full-time equivalent (FTE) faculty size was 7.2 persons, with only 12% of programs having 12 or more faculty. Table 1 Program-Level Information on Respondents Program Information N % ACES region Southern 23 37.7 North Central 17 27.9 North Atlantic 14 23.0 Rocky Mountain 2 3.3 Western 5 8.2 Degree programs offered Master’s 62 100.0 Specialist 15 24.0 Doctorate 21 34.0 Accredited program tracks offered Addiction counseling 0 0.0 Career counseling 3 4.8 Clinical mental health counseling/community counseling 56 90.3 Marriage, couple and family counseling 7 11.3 School counseling 46 74.1 Student affairs and college counseling 10 16.1 Other 13 21.0