Capella Faculty Member Named President-Elect of APA Division 50

Out of curiosity I ran some other searches:

Northcentral University returned 1 hit

Walden University returned 26

Fielding University returned no hits

Saybrook University returned no hits

Alliant University returned 10

Argosy University returned 46

U of P returned 73

Regards,
GME

 

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GME, the significance of these results is unclear to me for two reasons:

1. The nature of the affiliation is ambiguous -
"Capella" didn't appear anywhere in the citations.

2. Exactly how many of these journal entries were peer-reviewed?

 

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Hi David,

What I copied was the overall results pages, not the cite page.

I don't know how many are peer reviewed, likely to be many (most?). I'm pretty sure that all the psych journals are, as I think is any journal published by Sage. Ohiolink's EJC is a pretty heavy duty research database.

Regards,
GME

 

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So I take it you refuse any of the medications produced by these lower standard corporations? Of course you don't. Dude....you are avoiding the question and using smoke and mirrors to defend your position. OK...how about this one......in the state that I live the largest public institution has approximately 100,000 students across 8 campuses. They have all the standard professional schools. They train more medical doctors that any other university in the country. Likewise, there is aggressive hard sales throughout the state. Tons of bill boards, TV/radio ads, newspaper etc.... As a matter of fact they advertised last year on 100's of billboards that they were the #1 ranked research univeristy in the country (according the US News/World Report). According to your rationale because they utilize marketing/PR they are not credible. Nice try but no cigar.

Most of you don't like Capella because they aggressviely make their own case. They toot their own horn. So what? If they don't will Walden, Argosy, etc.... do it for them? Hell no. The bottom line is that Capella does something that most of you wish your own school did - that is inform the market (and their own students) of the progress they are making. They tell those who are interested how they are growing, the new programs being offered, new certifications, stories of faculty, appointments, etc...... Looks to me to be a good use of time resources.

 

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Doh! Meant Daniel.

Regards,
GME

 

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I have no problem with any product, the safety of which has been vetted a disinterested and uncompromised third party. Were it not for the FDA, then no, I think I'd stick to naturopathic remedies.

Um, no. In fact my own school, University of Denver, sent out a survey this year which in essence inquired as to how they could more effectively use corporate messaging techniques, how I felt about their "branding", etc.

My response? I told them to knock it off, to stop acting like a corporation. I told them that by concentrating on curriculum quality and admission standards their word-of-mouth reputation will take care of the rest. "Uncompromised in the educational marketplace" could become their "brand".

I am not so naieve as to think my response had any impact. I regret that DU's culture isn't more affected by its school of theology. But I ain't seen DU on a billboard lately, and no one's called me with a canned sales pitch.

You are, of course, free to spend your money and time as you wish. I considered Capella, and in the end its greed turned me away. I am happy not to have concerns about its quality hanging over my head.

How can the Phoenixes and the Capellas of the world earn my trust? Go throught the publicly-visible contortions and scrutiny necessary to establish a for-profit *seminary*.

 

Hi all,

I was floundering around thinking about Capella and this thread and came upon this listing:

http://www.amberton.edu/Fac_and_Staff_2003.htm

AMBERTON FACULTY

This is an accredited school located in Texas. There are 60 faculty members listed. They hold degrees from the range of schools you would expect, including such high flyers as Boston College. University of Denver is represented.

Two (possibly three) distance learning programs are represented:

Union
Nova Southeastern (I'm blanking, isn't it distance?)
Capella

There seem to be three levels of faculty: professor, associate professor, and instructor.

The Capella alum is listed as an associate professor.
The Union alum is a professor


Now, of course, this cannot be generalized. But it's nice to see Capella represented among so many traditional and respected schools.

Regards,
GME

 

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You're right. There are those of us that make inferences about the quality of an institution based on how they toot their own horn. In my opinion, there is a negative correlation between the level of "horn tooting" and the quality of the institution. Outliers may result in such comparisons where a major state university conducts an aggressive public relations campaign tin order to influence their major funding source, the taxpayers of the state.

The way for a graduate institution to make it's case in academia is through the research productivity of its faculty, students, and alumni. The academy, especially within a particular discipline, is a very small world. Most academics know who and where the major players are in their discipline. Dr. Piotrowski's academic peers would not need a press release to know of his election.

In the scheme of things, if the election of a faculty member as president-elect of an APA division is a critical factor in the overall reputation of graduate institution, there is a serious problem with that reputation.

Unfortunately, Capella's agressive tactics increases recognition rather than reputation.

 

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Good points, but perhaps a little overstated? Not sure Capella would consider Piotrowski election as a critical factor in their overall rep (although I do believe they consider APA accreditation critical). One of the Capella affiliated authors I cite above is a past president of one of the APA divisions, so not sure this is an huge event for them.

I think pretty much all colleges have pr departments and either in-house or outside ad agencies. (Most I think make it a practice to issue a press release when anything of note happens to their faculty. And for most of them the election to a divisonal presidency in the APA would result in a press release.)

And speaking of pr and marketing there are, of course, the sports programs which are only really promotional vehicles for universities and a fund raising mechanism among alums.

Where is everyone seeing Capella's over the top ads? Out here in LA all I ever see them on are online LA Times, and some high end blogs (often with Pepperdine, and Loyola Marymount) and I hear them on NPR. None are particularly hard sell.



Regards,
GME

 

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Exactly. How many non-profit graduate institutions resort to such silly sales gimmicks as Capella does? Has everyone seen Capella's blogs? An index all of them may be found at:

Capella Blogs

Sad, to say the least.

It's also interesting to note that every time Capella issues another one of their asinine press releases about some miniscule "achievement", it's noted on this board as being another great leap forward for distance education.

 

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I think those are Capellastinks' blogs.

 

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They belong to Capella University.

 

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You have to remember that online schools do not enjoy the recognition that B&M schools do. I agree that Capella needs to tone down the marketing a bit. However, having a core faculty becoming a president-elect of an APA division from an online school is nothing to be ashamed of and this is good for the rising recognition of online schools. Like someone else said, this is a golden star for the school.

 

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You're right. Sorry about that.

 

Holy Cross Professor Named President, Division of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology, American Psychological Association
WORCESTER Mass. – Suzanne R. Kirschner, associate professor of psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, has begun her one-year post as president of the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (24) of the American Psychological Association (APA). Division 24 of the APA is the largest body of psychologists in the world concerned with theoretical and philosophical topics in psychology; Kirschner served as the division's president-elect from 2003-2004.
http://webapps.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/press_releases/2004-2005/04_08_02


McLean Psychiatrist Named President-Elect of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
June 19, 2001 -- Belmont, MA -- Leonard Glass, MD, director of the Attending Psychiatrists and Psychologists Program at McLean Hospital, has been named president-elect of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI). With over 600 members, BPSI is the largest psychoanalytic society in the country.
http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/news/press/archived/20010619_Glass.php


University of Rochester
MEDIA CONTACT: Sharon Dickman (585) 275-4128, [email protected]
January 5, 2006
Psychologist Harry Reis Elected President of International Organization
Harry T. Reis, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, has been elected president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). With a worldwide membership of more than 4,500 researchers, SPSP is the largest organization dedicated to advancing the science of social-personality psychology. He is president-elect this year, will serve as president in 2007, and past-president in 2008.
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2382


Newell Fischer Elected President of the American Psychoanalytic Association
(Philadelphia, PA) -- Newell Fischer, MD, clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has been elected President of the American Psychoanalytic Association (ApsaA) at the Association's annual meeting recently held in Philadelphia. Fischer will serve in this position for two years.
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/june02/APA.html


OHIO STATE RESEARCHER ELECTED TO PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio State University psychologist has been elected to the national Institute of Medicine, the medical arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/janiom.htm

MEDIA CONTACT: Andrew LaPlant
(561) 297-3022, [email protected]
Two FAU Professors Elected American Psychological Association Fellows
BOCA RATON, FL (December 17, 2003) – Two Florida Atlantic University professors, Dr. Brett Laursen and Dr. David Lewkowicz, have been elected by their peers as Fellows of the American Psychological Association (APA) for 2004.
http://www.fau.edu/about/press/faunews/2003/dec/19.html

 

PhD Graduate From Capella University To Present At APA Convention August 10
Jeffrey Baker, a 2005 PhD graduate from Capella University, an online university and leader in online education, will present his dissertation research at the 2006 American Psychological Association (APA) Convention in New Orleans on August 10. His paper, "Extended Testing Time and GPA for College Students with LD," will be part of a session titled "Issues Related to Adults with Developmental Disabilities.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=49260


Not earth-shaking, of course, (there are -lots- of presenters at APA) but I think evidence of some small (and I personally hope growing) presence in the academy.

Regards,
GME

 

Good post and thanks for the links, GME!

So the university of Rochester is very proud that one of their professors is now the president of SPSP.
And two professors from FAU have been elected as fellows for APA. That is good for FAU and I see no wrong in letting the world know about this.

 

Just another Capella press release. Is this forum supposed to be used to regurgitate this drivel? Besides bombarding the Internet with their incessant ad campaigns, they also post their press releases on their site:

http://www.capellaeducation.com/news/news_releases_index.aspx

 

I couldn't help notice that four Capella students earned first place in the American Counseling Association (ACA) Ethics Committee Student Case Study Competition in 2005. I did not know about this until now.

http://www.capellaeducation.com/new...acacontest.aspx

 

Actually Fielding has

I believe that Fielding has at least two faculty members who have been presidents of APA divisions. I recently had a discussion about this with a couple of my fellow students. One of my favorite faculty members has recently completed a term as president of the APA division for women in psychology.