Conclusion

The national Preparing Future Faculty initiative, therefore, is consonant with this goal. By participating in the Preparing Future Faculty initiative, moreover, psychology has developed some different models by which different types of graduate departments might consider implementing and institutionalizing as part of their graduate education mission the preparation of their students, or at least those with interest and potential, for the complex array of roles that characterize the professoriate among the diversity of higher education institutions in our society. This report will highlight the lessons learned from the Preparing Future Faculty models in psychology, the developments that are leading to further implementation and institutionalization of the mission in graduate departments of psychology, and other recommendations resulting from our PFF experiences.

It is within this context that the national initiative “Preparing Future Faculty” (PFF) finds a particularly natural place in the discipline of psychology. Yet, despite the long and broad history of psychology’s involvement with education, teaching, learning, and assessment of the same, graduate departments of psychology in doctoral degree granting institutions generally have given no more systematic attention than have graduate department in other disciplines at that level of education to the formal preparation of their doctoral students for the professoriate as a scholarly profession. In general, they have prepared their students well in the conduct of research or, for psychology’s applied areas, for professional practice outside the academy. The diversity of career options for psychologists in academic and non-academic positions, or some combination thereof, is a subject with which most graduate students in psychology are not well acquainted, let alone the issue of how best to prepare in graduate school for these alternatives. It is towards a better understanding of these issues by students and faculty that the APA, in collaboration with the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, aspires to achieve.

PFF - Preparing Future Faculty

APA - American Psychological Association

UNH - University of New Hampshire

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Adams, K. (2002). What Colleges and Universities want in New Faculty. (Occasional Paper No. 7). Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Association of American Colleges and Universities (1997). Preparing Future Faculty: A national program. Washington, DC: Author.

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http://www.mun.ca/psychology/future/