“…The counseling field's limited exposure to, pursuit of, and success in obtaining external funding is further aggravated by the placement of most counselor education programs in schools or colleges of education, or schools or colleges of allied health. Many other departments within these schools and/or colleges, such as special education, curriculum and instruction, nutrition, speech and language pathology, and human development and family studies, have a history of receiving federal, state, and/or private funding from a variety of agencies (e.g., the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NSF, NIH, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, or U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Kleinhammer‐Tramill, Tramill, & Brace, 2010; Loeb et al, 2008). Counselor education faculty should not feel discouraged in applying for grants from these agencies; however, it becomes a daunting task for counselor educators to compare their funded research records with those of their colleagues in, for example, special education departments when the federal government earmarks specific funds for special education research (Kleinhammer‐Tramill et al, 2010).…”