For eight years he would return to the camp every summer eventually becoming a senior counselor.

Each summer there are 32-40 junior and senior counselors ranging between ages 17-24.

Instead, he is acting as the senior counselor to the President, generating ideas, asking questions, working on strategy.

He is also a senior counselor at public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard.

"We get so many wonderful gourmet things," the home's senior counselor, Sandra Smith, said.

Troi was glad that they were meeting in the senior counselor's office rather than in their quarters.

In March 2008 he became a senior counselor at Cohen Group and also began practicing on his own.

From 1951 until his retirement in 1978, he worked in the Pentagon as a senior civilian counselor to defense secretaries and top military commanders.

"There's been no decision on this," said Ms. Cahill, the chancellor's senior counselor for education policy.

Michele Cahill, the chancellor's senior counselor for education policy, has also been working to create new programs to help older, struggling students earn diplomas.