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American Psychological Association-Preparing Future Faculty program

Departments/Programs of Psychology at

Miami University: Oxford, Middletown and Hamilton

College of Mount Saint Joseph * Northern Kentucky University

Earlham College

August 2003

What is Preparing Future Faculty?

Preparing Future Faculty is a joint initiative by American Association of Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools to improve the preparation of graduate students for faculty roles. A key feature is forming partnerships with non-doctoral institutions, so that students learn about the ways in which faculty responsibilities are affected by institutional contexts, and increase doctoral students' awareness of diversity issues. Our program is funded by American Psychological Association.

Professional development series

Members of the APA PFF group have attended the speakers series sponsored by the University PFF learning community. In the spring, Sally Lloyd, Director of Women’s Studies led a discussion on, “Multiculturalism in the Classroom,” Sara McInerney, Assistant to the Arts & Science Dean, spoke on “Advising Undergraduate Students, ” and Bill Baker and Lisa Santucci, library staff, spoke on

“Information Literacy Across the Curriculum.”

A special guest was Lee Fox-Cardamone a Miami doctoral alumna. Lee led an open discussion on "Is there life after Miami?" "What I wish I had known before I took a job" or "How to prepare for an academic job". She also presented in SPRIG her work on scholarship of teaching, and gave a departmental colloquium on “Abortion Activism.”

2002-03 APA PFF Scholars & Activities

Jessica Donn

Mentor: Perilou Goddard, NKU

I have gotten much out of my participation in the PFF program thus far, with two especially significant experiences.  Teaching Personality Theory at Northern Kentucky University allowed me to work with a diverse student population, develop my skills at course preparation and methods of teaching, and gave me autonomy to use diverse lecture formats and methods of evaluation. CELT seminars and meeting with my mentor, Perilou Goddard, added to my understanding of the multiple facets of an academic career, including diversity

issues in teaching, serving on the faculty senate,

advising, and including information literacy in course structure. My PFF experience has helped me examine my own philosophy of teaching, expanded the methods I have available for instruction and evaluation, and has allowed me to increase my confidence and ability in the classroom. 

Jennifer Naylor

Mentor: Shannon Maxwell, MU-H

Involvement in PFF has helped me grow both professionally and personally. My mentor, Shannon Maxwell, was an incredible source of support and guidance. She taught me how to bring my own personality into the classroom and the importance of classroom boundaries. Further the PFF program afforded me the opportunity to diversity my teaching experiences by teaching two different courses at MU-Hamilton. The PFF program has allowed me to attend and participate in several teaching conferences, which were great opportunities to learn new teaching techniques and to discuss teaching and learning topics with several other professionals. Overall, the PFF program has helped boost my confidence in the classroom, which has helped enhance my overall effectiveness as an instructor.

Spreading the word about PFF

Representatives of APA PFF programs around the country, including Cecilia Shore, went to Oklahoma State University in March to give a two-day workshop on how to establish a PFF program. This fledgling program has established some great online resources for beginning teachers at the following URL: http://home.okstate.edu/homepages.nsf/toc/PFFmodulesneeded

Cecilia Shore also presented a talk on “Mentoring Doctoral Students in Psychology for Faculty Roles” as part of the Teaching Workshop at American Psychological Society in Atlanta this spring. She gave an overview of how well psychology prepares its new faculty, and made specific suggestions for doctoral programs.

Incoming APA PFF Scholars

Don Domenici is a clinical student, with teaching experience in Abnormal Psych and Experimental Psych. He is interested in narrative psychotherapy and research. As part of the program, he would like to work with undergrads on research, or teach on a clinical topic.

Dave Mueller is a social psych student, who has taught Stats lab, Social Psych, and will be teaching a new course, Political Psychology. His research interest is intergroup relations. His placement will probably involve supervising undergraduate research.

Gloria Oliver is a clinical student who will be teaching Developmental Psychology. She has been working with Robin Bartlett (NKU) and Tony Cooper MU-M) this summer. Her research interests include school readiness and literacy, parenting strategies, and learning disabilities.

Mark Schlutsmeyer is a clinical student who has taught methods lab, intro at NKU, and personality. His research interests are in client and therapist values in psychotherapy. He would like use his placement to learn more about teaching as a profession.

Tentative Calendar for 2003-04

Date	Topic, Location	Speaker
Sep 22	Using writing in your teaching Laws 18 5:30-7:30 p.m.	Paul Anderson, Center for Writing Excellence
Oct 10	Is there life after Miami? MU PhD alumna visit	Susan Davis, University of Dayton
Nov 3	Advising students Ofc. Career Services, 5:30-7:30 p.m.	Bill Froude, Office of Career Services
Dec 1	Mentoring undergraduate researchers Laws 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m.	Yldirim Dilek, Geology
	SPRING
Jan 30	TriState APA PFF Psychology Sympositum
Feb 20	Scholarship of Teaching	Tim Lawson, College of Mount Saint Joseph
TBA	Writing grants to support your research	Phil Best, Psychology
TBA	Using the internet in teaching	Chris Wolfe, Interdisciplinary Studies