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Issues and Opportunities for Departments of Psychology Using the External Review Process

Issues and Opportunities for Departments of Psychology Using the External Review Process. Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh. External Reviews: Lots of Fun?. Negatives Considerable time and effort Will it matter? Following Dean’s agenda vs. department’s

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Issues and Opportunities for Departments of Psychology Using the External Review Process

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  1. Issues and Opportunities for Departments of Psychology Using the External Review Process Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh

  2. External Reviews:Lots of Fun? • Negatives • Considerable time and effort • Will it matter? • Following Dean’s agenda vs. department’s • Trying to justify dept.’s existence • Potential Opportunities • Creating internal consensus and shared vision for faculty • Gaining feedback from external reviewers who value your values but also offer novel approaches to addressing current issues • Requires Dean to trust your judgment in selecting reviewers and conducting self evaluation

  3. Using External Reviews and Reviewers to PromoteDepartmentStrengths • Making review interactive by involving external consultants after having read preliminary strategic plan • Review began with presentation you just heard, followed by individual meetings with faculty, students, & Dean • Assimilation and accommodation of feedback from external reviewers • Strategic plan (hopefully) endorsed and further developed by external reviewers offers opportunity for demonstrating department’s value and need for university’s continued investment

  4. Psychology:Where do we belong? What is our identity?One of 6 hubs of science

  5. Psychology:Hub of Science • Boyack et al. (2005) review mapped structure of all science from 7,000 science citations • With math, physics, medicine, earth science, & chemistry, hubs create interest in shared problems • Psychologists sought our for elegant theoretical models and sophisticated methods • Disproportionately represented on committees of NRC, issues spanning from pollution, crime, education, family policy • Just at Pitt, psychologists hired in business, education, psychiatry, nursing, medicine, public health, social work, and speech

  6. Establishing our identify via focus on inter-disciplinary research and training: Implicitly making ourselves invaluable to university • Capitalize on increasing engagement with other disciplines • Transparency in describing current challenges • Balance between core and interdisciplinary research • Cross-disciplinary training & across traditional program boundaries • Future structure of psychology training programs

  7. Challenges Associated with Inter-disciplinary Training: Within Departments • More Challenges: • Boundaries between graduate training programs • Necessity of having programs • Clinical programs & APA requirements • Future structure of psychology training programs

  8. Enhancing Faculty Productivity & Maintaining Morale in ‘Bad Weather’ • Courseloads • Rewarding research productivity • Supervision of Honor’s and directed research students • Maintaining morale of faculty while maintaining very high expectations • Expectations for grant funding in current Federal climate

  9. For copy of Pitt’s Department Strategic Plan Contact Daniel Shaw at casey@pitt.edu

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