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Portrait of Ukeme-Abasi Bassey

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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

  • Santa Clara University, California

    Counseling Psychology/ MFT + LPCC track (Correctional Emphasis)

    2022 – 2025

  • Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana, Rome

    Bachelor of Divinity (B.D. Hons)

    2011 – 2015

  • University of Uyo, Nigeria

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons - Philosophy)

    2006 – 2010

Honors and awards

  • academic excellence award

    Undergraduate merit award for academic excellence (2012)

  • academic excellence award

    Undergradate merit award for academic excellence (2013)

  • academic excellence award

    Undergraduate merit award for academic excellence (2014)

  • academic excellence award

    Undergraduate merit award for academic excellence (2015)

  • Leadership Merit Award as Students' President

    Award for excellent service as President, National Association of Philosophy Students (2010)

  • Leadership Merit Award as Students' President

    Award for excellent service as President, National Association of Catholic Theology Students (2015)

  • Leadership Merit Award as Students' Vice President

    Award for excellent service as Vice President, National Association of Catholic Theology Students (2014)

  • 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

  • Graduate Student Employee

    Archive and Special Collections, Santa Clara University

    Sep 2022 – Dec 2025

  • Graduate Student Employee

    Santa Clara University Library

    Sep 2022 – Dec 2025

  • Graduate Student Assistant

    Drahmann Academic Advising & Learning Resources Center, Santa Clara University.

    Mar 2022 – Dec 2025

  • Administrative Assistant to the Secretary General

    Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja.

    Jan 2019 – Dec 2021

  • Vice-Rector

    Cardinal Ekandem Seminary, Uyo - Nigeria

    Nov 2016 – Nov 2018

  • Editor-in-Chief

    The Power Magazine, St Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria.

    Sep 2013 – Jun 2015

Volunteering

  • Volunteer Archive Assistant

    Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria

    Jan 2011 – Jul 2011

  • Volunteer Student Librarian

    St Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria

    Jan 2009 – Jul 2010

Languages

  • English (UK) Advanced
  • English (US) Intermediate
  • Italian Beginner

Additional information