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Ukeme-Abasi Bassey
Graduate Student Employee at Archive and Special Collections, Santa Clara University
- counseling psychology
- Class of 2025
- Santa Clara, California
Member since November 2022
About
Ukeme-Abasi is a young catholic priest with a very enthusiastic personality. He is multi-talented and can take up any task with little training. He loves innovations and can enhance a team’s overall performance. He is currently a graduate student of Counseling Psychology. People like him for many reasons; among them, he is stable, loyal, caring, trustworthy, dependable, intelligent, and has a wonderful knack for common sense. He values his relationships with friends, kin, and colleagues; so, he spends time and energy developing and nurturing these social networks. He is a good executive and manager. People almost instinctively feel he can supervise administrative, financial, business, and social issues effectively. And because he is sensible, factual, affable, and socially savvy, he can. He works hard, likes plans and schedules. He is detailed oriented, he follows the rules, and he tends to respect customs and traditions. However, he has an impetuous, spontaneous, fun-loving side. He likes novelty within limits. And he has a lot of interests, particularly in psychotherapy. His impetuous spirit adds energy and freshness to his sensible temperament, catches his friends off guard, and makes him both dependable and exciting.
Education
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Santa Clara University, California
Counseling Psychology/ MFT + LPCC track (Correctional Emphasis)
2022 – 2025
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Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana, Rome
Bachelor of Divinity (B.D. Hons)
2011 – 2015
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University of Uyo, Nigeria
Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons - Philosophy)
2006 – 2010
Honors and awards
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academic excellence award
Undergraduate merit award for academic excellence (2012)
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academic excellence award
Undergradate merit award for academic excellence (2013)
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academic excellence award
Undergraduate merit award for academic excellence (2014)
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academic excellence award
Undergraduate merit award for academic excellence (2015)
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Leadership Merit Award as Students' President
Award for excellent service as President, National Association of Philosophy Students (2010)
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Leadership Merit Award as Students' President
Award for excellent service as President, National Association of Catholic Theology Students (2015)
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Leadership Merit Award as Students' Vice President
Award for excellent service as Vice President, National Association of Catholic Theology Students (2014)
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Edwards M. Fellows Foundations Scholarship Award (2022)
Award for academic excellence
Goals and interests
- Career goal
Psychotherapy; Marriage and Family Therapist/LPCC
- Graduate school interests
Correctional Psychology
- Outside the classroom
Plays the violin, viola, piano, xylophone, badminton, soccer, & table tennis; loves cooking.
Experience
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Graduate Student Employee
Archive and Special Collections, Santa Clara University
Sep 2022 – Dec 2025
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Graduate Student Employee
Santa Clara University Library
Sep 2022 – Dec 2025
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Graduate Student Assistant
Drahmann Academic Advising & Learning Resources Center, Santa Clara University.
Mar 2022 – Dec 2025
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Administrative Assistant to the Secretary General
Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja.
Jan 2019 – Dec 2021
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Vice-Rector
Cardinal Ekandem Seminary, Uyo - Nigeria
Nov 2016 – Nov 2018
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Editor-in-Chief
The Power Magazine, St Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria.
Sep 2013 – Jun 2015
Volunteering
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Volunteer Archive Assistant
Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria
Jan 2011 – Jul 2011
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Volunteer Student Librarian
St Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria
Jan 2009 – Jul 2010
Languages
- English (UK) Advanced
- English (US) Intermediate
- Italian Beginner
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