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HISTORY OF MINORITY GRADUATE TRAINING (2003) The Department of Psychology at FSU has provided doctoral graduate training for members of underrepresented minority groups since the early 1960s. The material presented in this segment of the Department's web site documents some aspects of that history. The material was assembled as part of the Department's historical celebration of 100 Years of Psychology and 50 Years of Doctoral Degrees in April, 2003. Some milestones in our history of training underrepresented minorities are that the first Ph.D. earned by a Hispanic American was in 1964, by an African American was in 1972, by an Asian American was 1997, and by a Native American was in 2002. The site has three main sections: 1953 - 2002: The Department of Psychology's Record of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Ph.D. Recipients 1953-2002: The Department of Psychology's Record of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Ph.D. Recipients The Department or Psychology at FSU was authorized to award the doctoral degree in 1953. Our record with respect to awarded doctoral degrees to students of different racial and ethnic groups between 1953 and 2002 is summarized in a document prepared by Daniel Hollar (2003) as an undergraduate Directed Individual Study project. This document shows how the sex and racial characteristics of students completing doctoral degrees in Psychology at FSU have changed across the 50-year period since we began awarding the Ph.D. It contains several figures and tables that provide an excellent summary of characteristics of our graduated students, and it also includes a breakdown of the topics of dissertation research by minority students. Daniel Hollar entered the graduate program in Clinical Psychology at FSU in Fall, 2003. The full text of Daniel Hollar's (2003) document, Descriptive Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Psychology Ph.D. Recipients at Florida State University 1953-2002, is available here. 1973: A Graduate Recruiting Brochure for African American Students In 1973, an initiative to recruit African American graduate students was begun under the direction of Dr. Joseph Grosslight, the Department Chair. It included publication of a brochure written by the three African American graduate students in the Department at that time (Aubrey Perry, Rod Hammond, Marva Dawkins), as well as recruiting trips by these students to colleges and universities in the East, including historically black colleges and universities, and personal contacts with applicants. The 1973 Brochure is preserved in the Department's Historical Archives. Click here to see the entire document.
2003: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity in the F.S.U. Psychology Graduate Program : A Discussion with our Alumni In April, 2003, Dr. Janet Kistner, Chair, Department of Psychology, invited faculty, graduate students and undergraduates to discuss issues related to cultural diversity in the Psychology graduate program at FSU. The resulting session, Discussion of Issues Related to Cultural Diversity in the Psychology Graduate Program, ran from 2 - 5pm on the afternoon of April 5. It included presentations by some of our first minority Ph.D. alumni from the 1960s and 1970s. The Program for the Discussion is provided below along with biosketches of the alumni participants and a photo gallery related to the session . A main goal of the session was to have our current faculty and students interact with our early minority alumni who have had very successful careers in academic, administrative and professional settings. The alumni presented varied and interesting perspectives on their graduate education at FSU in the 1960s and '70s, and provided their perspectives on cultural diversity in graduate education. A good discussion followed. The Program for the session was arranged by a committee of current grad students (Clayton Jones, Liz Lima, Ricki Wingate) with the help of Drs. Aubrey Perry, Na'im Akbar, Mike Rashotte and Janet Kistner. A videotape of the session has been preserved in the Department's historical archives. Program
Dr. Manuel Vega (Ph.D. Psychology/School, Florida State University, 1964; Wally Kennedy, Major Professor) is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida. He retired from USF in 1996 after 30 years of service. During his tenure there, he served in various capacities: as a school psychologist (in a Head Start project); instructor and chair in the Behavioral Sciences Department; helped develop the Criminal Justice/Criminology Department in 1972. He also developed an undergraduate internship program in CJ, which he supervised and directed. In 1978 he transferred to Sarasota campus of USF to become the coordinator of the CJ/Crime Program there. He was selected as the Outstanding Professor on that campus three times and co-authored Corrections: A Comprehensive View, a textbook that was published in 1996. Dr. Vega was the first Hispanic American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology from FSU. Dr. Aubrey Perry (Ph.D. Psychology/Clinical, Florida State University, 1972; Jack Hokanson, Major Professor) is Professor of Psychology at Florida A&M University. Formerly chairperson of the FAMU Department of Psychology and Director of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at FAMU in 1984, a position he held until 1997. Dr. Perry is a licensed psychologist in the State of Florida and is a former chair and member of the Board of Psychological Examiners for the State of Florida. His specialty areas include Psychotherapy-Racial Implications, Aggression and Autonomic Processes, Depression, and Community Mental Health. Dr. Perry was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology from FSU. Dr. W. Rodney Hammond (Ph.D. Psychology/School, Florida State University, 1974; Charles Madsen, Major Professor) is the Director of the Division of Violence Prevention within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta since 1996. He has overall responsibility for administration of CDC research and programs to prevent homicide, suicide, family, intimate partner and sexual assault, child abuse, and youth violence. The Division has three branches and includes staff from multiple disciplines in the behavioral sciences, medicine, and public health. Dr. Hammond's research and programmatic publications have focused on violence as a public health concern, especially youth violence. He developed Project PACT(Positive Adolescents Choices Training), distinguished by its impressive violence prevention outcomes for at risk youth. He is author and Executive Producer of the series Dealing with Anger: A Violence Prevention Program for African American Youth, which has been nationally recognized for its unique contribution as a culturally sensitive violence prevention program. Dr. Hammond also works closely with the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and Regional WHO Centers in Japan and the Americas. He was the CDC representative to the Health Working Group of the Gore-Mbecki Bilateral Commission to the Republic of South Africa. He has received many awards for his work, including the US Department of Health and Human Service's Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service for his efforts in public health and mental health collaboration. Dr. Marva P. Dawkins (Ph.D. Psychology/Clinical, Florida State University, 1975; Jack Hokanson, Major Professor) is a highly experienced clinical psychologist in the field of police and forensic psychology. She is one of the founders, and the Executive Director and President of The Center for Applied Psychology and Forensic Studies (CAPFS), a licensed for-profit psychological services corporation in downtown Chicago since 1991. Dr. Dawkins is also known for her work within the Juvenile and Criminal Courts where she has served as an expert witness and has been involved in many highly publicized court cases. Dr. Antonio A. Nunez (Ph.D. Psychology/Neuroscience, Florida State University, 1977; Fred Stephan, Major Professor) is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Michigan State University where he has been on the faculty since 1980. His laboratory is interested in the neural and endocrine control of circadian and seasonal rhythms in mammals, with particular attention to the neural circuits that connect the circadian clock of the suprachiasmatic nucleus to other regions of the brain that regulate sleep and reproductive functions. Some of his recent work includes studies of environmental contaminant effects on neural and behavioral development. He has served on several NIH study sections. He has also had much experience nationally, and in his administrative role in the Graduate School at Michigan State, with matters related to diversity in graduate education. Photo Gallery
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