SJSU Professor Lewis Aptekar

Dr. Lewis Aptekar, a retired Professor in Counselor Education, is a respected scholar and author who spent decades helping the world through his humanitarian efforts. He was a Senior Fulbright Specialist and Visiting Professor of Community Counseling at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Francisco Morazán in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 2002 and he served as a visiting professor on multiple other occasions. Throughout his career, he worked in dozens of countries around the globe and touched thousands of lives. If you want to follow Dr. Lewis Aptekar’s lead and become a professor in your own field, that’s wonderful! You’re looking at a rewarding a diverse career that can help you travel the world, change the future and learn for the rest of your working life. Tips like these might point you in the right direction for beginning your career: ·          Choose a Field Your career as a professor will vary dramatically based on your field. A...

Dr. Lewis Aptekar is a retired Professor in Counselor Education who has lived and worked in approximately thirty-five countries and has decades of experience. He was a Professor in Counselor Education at San José State University’s Connie L. Lurie College of Education between 1987 and 2016, when he retired. In 2010, Dr. Lewis Aptekar’s book “In the Lion's Mouth: Hope and Heartbreak in Humanitarian Assistance,” was published. He received the following five-star review that same year: ·          “Can you imagine yourself living in Kaliti, a displaced person's camp in Ethiopia because you want to know what it's like to be such a person in such a place? But it's not just curiosity that takes you there. You are a skilled, well-practiced observer of human behavior in situ, so you know what to look for, what to record,” the review begins. “The author of this compelling account of the strengths and weaknesses of humanitarian aid programs as e...