cpsylist: Summer: Bring it on CPSY!

[Leslie Leve]

Hello CPSY community and happy start of summer!

It was truly inspiring to see so many members of three cohorts of CPSY students walk across the stage and be hooded on Monday, with many others of you there to share in honoring this major achievement. Rain showers or not—it was quite a joyful way to launch into summer.

I am writing because today is my first day serving as the Department Head for Counseling Psychology and Human Services (CPHS). It is an honor to serve CPHS faculty, staff, and students and help promote, support, and strengthen the outstanding research, teaching, and service that is the bedrock of our department.  I am also grateful to Beth Stormshak for her excellent leadership as CPHS Department Head for the past 5 years.

As I begin this new role, I want to thank our incoming and outgoing leadership team and describe an interim leadership plan for the CPSY program. There are some changes in leadership and I recognize that change can be a bit bumpy sometimes, but, I am confident that together we can further strengthen our program and improve the student and faculty experience.

First, Benedict McWhirter has completed his service as program director and Ellen McWhirter has completed her service as director of clinical training (DCT). Please join me in thanking Ben and Ellen for the countless hours of time and the thoughtful leadership that each has individually dedicated to the CPSY program for many years.

Second, we have a 1-year interim leadership plan for CPSY beginning today and continuing until June 15, 2023. I am happy to share that as part of this interim plan, Anne Marie Mauricio will step into the role of DCT. Anne Marie has a PhD in Counseling Psychology and extensive experience training practitioners.

Third, CPSY program director duties will be shared by several individuals during the interim year. We will provide a document later this summer that helps you know who to go to for a given topic, given our modified interim structure for the coming year.

Fourth, in fall, faculty will discuss and create plans for CPSY program leadership for AY23-24 and beyond. This will be part of faculty-led long-term visioning activities for the entire department, including the CPSY program. We will seek student input as part of our faculty processes later in fall.

As we are members of one department, and many of us work closely with students and faculty in other CPHS programs, I am also sharing the leadership plans for our other three programs below. Faculty hold many hats across multiple programs, thank you CPHS faculty!

  *   Family and Human Services. FHS will continue to be led by an Undergraduate Council. For AY 22-23, faculty who are providing this service are: Jen Doty, Jean Kjellstrand (fall term only), Atika Khurana, Benedict McWhirter (Chair), Chris Murray, James Muruthi, and Karrie Walters. Thank you also to other CPHS faculty who just completed their term of service—Nichole Kelly and Ellen McWhirter.
  *   Couples and Family Therapy. Jeff Todahl will continue to serve as program director for CFT. Tiffany Brown will continue to serve as clinic director.
  *   Prevention Science. Nichole Kelly and Nicole Giuliani will continue to serve as co-directors for PREV. Thank you also to Anne Marie Mauricio who will be completing her service as associate director for PREV at the end of the month.

As we move into summer, I also want to acknowledge the recent process that the CPSY program underwent with the Ombudspeople. Faculty heard many areas of concern expressed. As we consider those concerns and move forward with long-term visioning for the department and program, I would also ask that we all do some reflecting on elements of the CPSY program that are working well. This will help ensure that, like our clinical work, we use a strengths-based approach as we move forward with plans for the future to build on program strengths while remedying and reducing our areas of growth.

I wish everyone a restorative summer—whether that be travel, beach or mountain time, family time, or simply more time to sleep and to read for pleasure. Each and every one of you has earned this, congratulations on the successful completion of the 21-22 academic year!

Leslie



p.s., I know some of you more closely that others. If you don’t know me well, here’s is some brief professional info about me, I look forward to getting to know each of you a little more in the coming year.

A little bit about me: My first alma mater is the banana slug—I graduated with my bachelor’s in psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 1990. I fell in love with Eugene when I visited here that year to explore graduate school, and I ultimately received my PhD in Developmental Psychology from UO. After graduating, I accepted a post doc position at the Oregon Social Learning Center where I learned the ins-and-outs of research, worked with interventionists, and learned about grant writing and grants management as I moved into research scientist and then senior scientist roles. I spent more than 15 years at OSLC, while raising two sons and getting my first experience in management by serving as OSLC’s Science Director. This was a wonderful career for the early to middle part of my career, but I found that I missed students, teaching, and the interdisciplinary collaborations that are possible at liberal arts research universities like UO. I feel fortunate to have been hired into the College of Education as a professor in CPHS in 2013 by then Dean Michael Bullis, and have the distinction of being his last tenure-line hire before he retired (note: correlation does not equal causation, as I hope I didn’t cause his retirement!). I have served as Associate Dean for Research in the COE, Associate Vice President for Research in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, program director for Prevention Science, and interim director of the Prevention Science Institute. But, this is my first stint as department head!  I am looking forwarding to learning and growing in this role and representing and advocating for our programs, students, faculty, and staff.



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Leslie Leve, Professor
Lorry Lokey Chair
Department Head, Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, College of Education
Interim Director, Prevention Science Institute
University of Oregon
Web: https://levelab.uoregon.edu/ and  https://education.uoregon.edu/people/prevsci/leve
Member, National Scientific Council on Adolescence, https://developingadolescent.org/

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and they continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.


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