Department of PsychologyFairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

B.A. in Psychology

472 Majors Degrees Granted

B.A.s Granted 2005-2006: 78 B.G.S.s Granted 2005-2006: 14

Psy Chi – An active undergraduate psychology honorary

Credit Hours Produced Fall, 05: 5647

Ph.D. in Psychology Applications for Fall, 2006

USA 69 International 7 14 admitted

70 Doctoral Students Clinical Psychology (APA Accredited): 21 Students Community (accreditation NA): 22 Students Human Factors (HFES accredited): 27 Students

Diversity African American Students: 11.4% (8) Hispanic Students: 5.8% (4) Asian Students: 7.1% (5)

Ph.D.s Granted SP 04 – SP 06: 30 Clinical: 6 Community: 10 Human Factors: 14

Faculty Professors: 6 Associate Professors: 4 Assistant Professors: 6 Instructors: 0 Unclassified Professionals: 2 Classified Personnel: 2

Associated Centers and Other Units Self Help Network: Center for Community Support and Research

has participated in a variety of externally funded community research projects and initiatives for more than 20 years and is nationally considered an exemplar in meeting the research, education and service mission of an urban university like WSU.

Psychology Clinic: As well as providing outpatient mental health services for the community, our Psychology Clinic is the primary setting in which students in the our clinical psychology program at WSU attain early, supervised experience in psychological assessment and therapy.

Software Usability Research Laboratory: This lab evaluates the usability of software and websites for many “Fortune 500” companies. SURL has also been involved in the WSU Banner Project.

Scholarly Activity FY ’05 External Funding: $3,214,277 Journal Articles: 23 Paper Presentations: 53

Mission Orientation The urban mission of WSU has driven

the development of all of our doctoral programs the selection of faculty involvement of undergraduates in applied research our research orientation extensive collaboration with community agencies,

industry, and business the development of our undergraduate drug and

alcohol counseling program

A Sample of Practicum/Internship Placements

HeadStart Comcare Lucent Technology Google K.U. Med School, Wichita Microsoft Prairieview Mental Health

Center National Cash Register Sandia Labs

Larksfield Place Catholic Care Center NTSB Parish Nursing Center Episcopal Social

Services Three Trees NIH And over 50 other

businesses and community agencies

Ph.D. Program Evaluation In addition to what is required, the

department, in the Summer of 2005 conducted an assessment of our Ph.D. graduates.

We had 70 graduates in all. We were able to contact 52 of them. This project is ongoing.

Some Highlights of the Survey ALL of the 52 who filled out the survey are

employed in Psychology-related jobs. 50% of participants work in the State of Kansas Modal Salary for Clinical Graduates: $40,000 to

$60,000 Modal Salary for Community Graduates: $60,000 to

$80,000 Modal Salary for Human Factors Graduates:

$80,000 to $100,000

Departmental Priorities Successfully recruiting five replacement

faculty members Increasing our embarrassingly low GTA

stipends Remodeling our clinic which is currently a

1950’s design