cpsylist: Docsem registration changed to CPSY 601: Research and updates

[Benedict McWhirter]

Hi folks!

I hope you are all dong well!

Here are three things as we prepare for the coming year:

1.  In my intro letter to incoming students I updated them about registration changes for docsem. See note below. Docsem will not change as a class/advising meeting/research meeting, but you now need to register just for CPSY 601 research credits and NO LONGER register for CPSY 607.  Ask your advisor what name to give the research credits each term.

The reason for this is not to do away with Docsem at all. We will continue to hold Docsems as we have in the past. It has to do with how faculty teaching is being counted at the UO and the COE has so many small seminars that it looks like faculty teach very few small seminars compared to the norm at UO. This would negatively affect our budget in future.

Here is what I sent to incoming students:

A note about “Docsem”:  The CPSY faculty has had a long tradition of holding weekly advising, training, and research meetings with our advisees called the “Doctoral Research Seminar” or “Docsem.” This has always been a weekly meeting to connect with your advisor and other students in the program across all levels of training, receive and give advising, work on professional skills like getting feedback on your writing, and working on research projects with others, supervised by your advisor. The docsem is not unique to our CPSY program, but it is not common and at UO we attempt to make these experiences fruitful ones for beginning and advanced students alike and a way to build and maintain a sense of community in our program culture. The docsem guarantees consistent contact with your advisor. You should bring most of your advising needs to Docsem. Many CPSY doctoral students find the “docsem” to be one of the highlights of their training experience.

In the past, students used to register for the doctoral seminar as a “CPSY 607” number. We continue to offer the same Docsem (Friday mornings of every term) but you now need to register for “CPSY 601: Research” credits instead. Ask your specific advisor about what to title the research credits. For my students, for instance, they would register for “CPSY 601: Research: Emerging Adults”.


2.   Second thing: You all as CPSY Students have done a great job of setting up student mentoring for first year students.  Would you please send to me the list of mentor-mentee matches between current students and incoming students?  Given our challenges to keep connected this coming year, the more we share about this the easier it will be to support you and incoming students to the program.

3.   Finally: Would it be helpful to have a student leadership/SALA/Student Reps and Training Director meeting before the term begins?  Let me know and let's set that us soon! Toward that end, also, please send me a list of SALA leadership.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Take care and enjoy the remaining weeks of summer.  Pic is from the Southern Oregon Coast Hike just north of Port Orford that I took with one of my nephews this summer.  Make your own metaphor.  (This was at about 6 am- we had gotten kicked out of a closed State Park the night before which turned out to be good because we had to ford the Wolf river at low tide at 5am in order to get across it.....but that is another story!)

Benedict
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Benedict T. McWhirter, Ph.D.
Professor, Counseling Psychology and Prevention Science
Program Director, Counseling Psychology Program
College of Education
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR  97403-5251

benmcw at uoregon.edu
541-346-2410


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