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Views From the Top
Nothing better prepares you for top administrative positions in academia than working in psychological science, say those who have scaled the heights. And, among the accolades that may come, they might even name a building
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It’s Still a Rat Race: The Parallels Between Research and Administration
APS Past President Elizabeth D. Capaldi is vice chancellor and chief of staff of the State University of New York. It was self defense: I became department chair to prevent a chair from possibly ruining
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Rockefeller Taps Rodin
Rodin Former president of the University of Pennsylvania and APS Fellow Judith Rodin has been named president of the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s oldest and largest private philanthropies. “I am deeply honored to
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The Importance of Introductory Psychology Courses
When I started researching colleges during my last months of high school, I thought psychology was simply something that involved a notepad and a couch. But by March of my first year of college, I
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Great Dissertations: Mark I
A year ago in the Observer, I wrote a column on “Dissertation Dilemmas” which focused on varying perspectives on the dissertation. In some scholars’ views, the dissertation should represent a grand intellectual achievement, whereas in
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It Is the Best of Times, It Is (Not Quite) the Worst of Times
It was 1988 and I was starting my third year at Berkeley. One of my senior colleagues stopped by my office and dropped off a brochure describing the newly formed American Psychological Society saying: “You
