Through its goal of serving as an information exchange network among graduate programs, the Council of Program Directors in Community Research & Action (CPDCRA) has compiled information on programs interested in hosting a visiting graduate student for a semester through student exchange.
For those of you unfamiliar with the student exchange concept, it is a wonderful opportunity for graduate students to participate in coursework and research settings different from those of their own programs, and to be exposed to the views and practices of community research and action faculty in greater depth than experienced via conferences or publications. CPDCRA supports strongly student exchange ventures as they represent professional collaboration and promote graduate education and professional affiliation in community research and action.
All arrangements are negotiated among the student, home program director, and host program director. For example, visiting students may arrange to register as unclassified students in their host program and pay for tuition, housing, transportation, etc. Another possibility is to register in their home program, but take the courses in their host program. The host program director would then inform the home program director of the student's performance. In either case, credits earned and other requirements met (e.g., practicum, research experience) during the semester should count in the student's home program.
A list of possible host programs for student exchange is provided below. If program directors, faculty or students have any questions or would like additional information, please contact:
| Host Program | Contact Information | Program Description |
| Rutger's University | Cary Cherniss, Ph.D
Professor of Applied Psychology Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Rutgers University 152 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 (732) 445-2187 (732) 445-4888 FAX cherniss@rci.rutgers.edu |
There are many community psychology faculty at Rutgers, representing many different theoretical viewpoints and intervention approaches. They include Brenna Bry and Nancy Boyd-Franklin, who are engaged in the fourth year of a school/ community intervention in a predominantly African-American community. Also there is Maurice Elias, whose Social Problem Solving Program is one of the oldest and most respected school-based prevention programs in the country. Paul Speer and Andy Peterson are involved in grass-roots organizing on the neighborhood and community level. John Kalafat is studying the institutionalization of innovations; more specifically, he is doing research on organizational variables that characterize high schools that have sustained peer programs over a period of years. Finally, I am co-chairing a research consortium that focuses on emotional intelligence in the workplace. I expect that any of the faculty here would welcome having a student join their team. Also, I think that an exchange student would be able to have some contact with all the faculty I've identified. |
| University of Hawaii | Professor Clifford R. O'Donnell
University of Hawaii Department of Psychology 2430 Campus Road Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-6271 808-956-4700 FAX cliffo@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu |
We would be happy to host an exchange
student. Our program offers an integrated curriculum in community and cultural
psychology with faculty strengths in delinquency prevention, disaster management,
disabilities, organizational consultation, and cultural training. For information
on our Community and Culture program, please visit our web page:
http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/psy/candc.html |
| University of Utah | Barbara Brown
Family & Consumer Studies/AEB University of Utah 225 S. 1400 E. Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA brown@fcs.utah.edu |
Our program is willing to host
a visiting student for any length of time. See our description under Interdisciplinary
Community Programs at the CPDCRA website: http://www.msu.edu/user/lounsbu1/cpdcra.html
or see our
department website: http://www.fcs.utah.edu/ We are an interdisciplinary program, not a psychology department, although we have several community, environmental, social, and developmental psychologists in the department and work closely with faculty in the psych dept. Our strengths are research, teaching, and community/government contacts in three broad areas: (1) environment and behavior, community development, urban planning, housing, and crime issues, (2) lifespan development, family policy, and early childhood education, (3) consumer studies and family economics. |
| University of Waikato | Neville Robertson, PhD
Psychology Department The University of Waikato Hamilton Aotearoa/New Zealand voice: +64 7 838 4466 ext 8300 +64 7 856 2158 FAX scorpio@waikato.ac.nz |
At the University of Waikato,
community psychology is offered within the Masters of Social Science degree
(M.Soc.Sci.), as a specialist three-year Diploma (PGDip. Psych (Com)),
or as a specialised area of doctoral study (PhD). Graduates of the post-graduate
Diploma (for which Masters is a co-requisite) are eligible for registration
as a psychologist under the statutory licensing system. At the undergraduate
level, a year three paper
is offered. Training in community psychology are Waikato has a number of distinctive features. (1) A strong commitment to cultural justice. In the context of Aotearoa, this means developing models of culturally safe practice which support Maori development. (2) A high priority on developing the skills needed for professional practice, including a process of supported professional development. (3) A gradual transition from primarily university-based training to primarily community-based training over the three years of the programmes. (4) Collaboration with community organisations leading to job opportunities. Particular strengths of the programme are bicultural approaches to the practice of psychology, the use of psychology to promote Maori development, feminist approaches, programme evaluation and qualitative research methods. For further information visit the programme web page at http://130.217.157.6/people/nev/a-home.html |
| Wayne State University | Paul A. Toro, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology Wayne State University 71 W. Warren Ave. Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 577-0806 or -0767 (313) 577-7636 FAX p.toro@wayne.edu |
The program in community psychology
at Wayne State draws students from our APA-approved doctoral clinical program
as well as our doctoral social and developmental programs. Ongoing applied
research involves a variety of topics, most focused on Detroit's urban
population (which includes many
African Americans and other ethnic groups). There are studies on homelessness and poverty, including evaluations of community-based interventions, longitudinal research, and cross-cultural studies (involving homeless adults, families, and/or adolescents). There are also a number of ongoing developmental studies focused on various other populations of urban children, families, couples, youth, and elders. Some of these are investigating the impact of family characteristics, social support, and/or substance abuse. One of the key courses in community psychology (Program Evaluation, taught by Dr. Toro) will be offered in the Fall of 2000. |
| Wichita State University | Greg Meissen, PhD
Professor & Director, Self-Help Network Center for Community Support & Research Department of Psychology Wichita State University Wichita, KS 67260-0034 (316) 978-3039 (313) 978-3593 FAX meissen@twsu.edu |
We would be glad to consider an
exchange student at Wichita State University. The Self-Help Network would
provide a setting with ongoing self-help group research and activities
as well as research projects involving community based initiatives, leadership,
consumer run mental health programs and others. are other possibilities
within our Community Program including underage and college student drinking
issues, end of life
issues, student evaluation of teaching, prevention of health risks in minority populations, health interventions in religious settings and others. |