Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

Full time Capella psychology faculty Dr. Piotrowski has been named president-elect of APA division 50 - Addictions.
This is one of the few times, if not the first, that a core faculty of an online school becomes the president of any of APA's divisions. I think that this is good news for the growing reputation of online schools in general. I wonder why the Capella bashing/bashers never mention these things.

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APA's home page and list of Divisions.
http://www.apa.org/about/division.html

 

Interesting - a pro-Capella comment with no responses. I rest my case.

 

Re: Re: Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

Let me be the first: he's Capella faculty, not a Capella grad.

 

I'd add that the past Dean of Nova Southeastern's Psychology center was President of the APA.

Regards - Andy

 

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It still helps credibility.

 

It is my impression that each time a poster presents an "accomplishment" of a faculty member at the school they are attending (I am not speaking of any specific school) it actually raises a red flag and makes one very suspect as to why this is necessary. In fact when one is confident in themselves or the school they attend there is no need to be defensive. One would think that they are confident in their selection and have absolutely no need to display a defensive posture UNLESS they are not really certain and are having doubts themselves!

Posters in this forum have every right to question ANY aspect of ANY distance learning school due to the very significant monetary, time and energy commitments required. They need to be quite confident that their investment justifies spending tuitions amounting to over $60,000 (unless their company or the military is picking up the tab) as well as periods of up to seven years to complete a doctorate!

Therefore, it is not the poster who is posing myriad questions or addressing certain problem areas concerning a distance learning school who has to justify their rationale for doing so. In fact it is the defender of the school in question who has to ask him/herself that if they are so confident and assured in their choice of school there is no need to present such a rigorous defense as well as to attempt to prevent any further questioning from other posters.

 

<<It is my impression that each time a poster presents an "accomplishment" of a faculty member at the school they are attending (I am not speaking of any specific school) it actually raises a red flag and makes one very suspect as to why this is necessary. In fact when one is confident in themselves or the school they attend there is no need to be defensive>>

Hi Simon,

I'm attending Capella, at front end of my dissertation, and pretty well satisfied. I work at a very old B&M school. When I'm sitting around a table comprised of PhD (as I did recently while serving on the hiring committee for our new dean) where they are all grads of top tiers and Ivys, I find myself being (I hope mostly internally) defensive.

Distance learning is new. Capella is new. Is suspect in many corners. It (and pretty much all other DL programs) are harshly criticized in some corners. For profit education is new. It is safe to say that while many (including Capella) deliver a good and valuable product, they will never have the flash of any first tier school.

Indeed, my first choice would have been to attend UCLA's doctoral program. Or Stanford. Or any number of other B&M schools. However (assuming I was accepted) at none of them can you work full time and go to school.

So Capella is a compromise on my part and since it has no reputation to speak of, I welcome anything that tends to root it in the power centers of the professional and academic world, particularly the psychological world (Capella is going APA soon I think, always has a presence at the APA convention, usually has a reception for Capella alums at the convention - smart, very smart).

Regards,
GME

 

Re: Credit where it's due

Agreed....finally some credit where it's due.

 

Re: Re: Re: Re: Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

...and they need all the credibility they can muster. In my eyes they will have reached that when they no longer feel the need to incessantly generate PR releases such as the one quoted, or litter my city with their billboards, and dispense with the used-car salesman-cum-"admission counselor" high pressure sales tactics.

I suspect that this will be at the same time their grads starting making the cut in peer-reviewed journals.

 

Re: Not new at all

Quite true. U of London and all.

I was thinking in terms of the internet based programs that have exploded over the last decade.

 

Re: Re: Re: Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

Geesh - you people simply can't see past your own egotistical noses. The point is that here is a quality faculty member who has chosen to teach at Capella. Many of you are so biased against Capella (and ready to bash them) that you simply cannot beleive that anyone would ever choose to teach anywhere but the holy Big Three. You folks are wayyyyyyyyyyy to easy to manipulate.

 

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so..............according to you they (Capella) should sit back, keep their mouths shut and "hope" someone in another state (or country) will discover them. Using this same rationale, when Pfizer, Lily or whoever discovers that magic pill to cure cancer they shouldn't advertise it because if they do - they wouldn't be credible? Oh boy!

 

There is a difference between being biased and having an opinion.

 

I absolutely agree. Unfortunately having watched and listened to this board for nearly 5 years the facts "are what they are."

 

Re: Re: Re: Re: Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

If you have access to a research database that includes aggregated databases of journals and do a search of 'Capella University' you'll find a pretty good number of authors who have an affiliation with Capella.

Regards,
GME

 

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

I don't have access. Please provide a few so that we can examine them.

 

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I expect Capella is to adhere to the standards of the educational community, not to the lower ones of corporations.

Given how much their tuition is, I expect their representatives to conduct their recruitment on a level equivalent to our best public universities - not those of credit card telemarketers.

Until they conduct business at a higher level they'll receive the level of suspicion they've earned.

 

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division

This are from a search of "Capella University" on the Electronic Journal Collection of the Ohiolink.edu database. It returned 19 hits. For some scale, the B&M that I work for (which is not a research institution) which is 153 years old and has five campuses around the country, returned 31 hits. .


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