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Honoring Transgender Awareness Week and Day of Remembrance

This week (November 13th to 19th) is Transgender Awareness Week, a week where community organizations and individuals work to increase visibility for transgender individuals and shed a light on the issues that members of the transgender community face. The week leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th,

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Faculty Spotlight: Jared Smendik, PsyD

Dr. Jared Smendik (PsyD ’21) is an adjunct faculty member teaching a section of Group Processes: Theory & Practice in the MA program this semester.  Where did you grow up?I grew up in Middleville, Michigan What or who influenced you to study psychology? Psychology has also been an interest of mine,

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Faculty Spotlight: Brooke Colman, PsyD

Dr. Brooke Colman (PsyD ’21) is an adjunct professor teaching a section on Professional and Scientific Ethics in the MA program this semester. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and attended Michigan State University for my undergraduate studies. I spent some time in Chicago,

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New Chair of Board of Trustees

The Michigan School of Psychology (MSP) Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Glen Fayolle, MBA has been appointed Board Chair. Fayolle was elected to MSP’s Board of Trustees in 2016. He has been an active member of the MSP community and a strong advocate for the institution since

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Return to Campus: Student Assistants

Have you noticed new faces at the front desk of MSP? Meet our Student Assistants (right)! Cierra, Dennis, Erin, and Kenneth are MA and MA/ABA students in their first and second years of their programs who work to cover the front desk from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM Monday through

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President’s Perspective: DEI Updates

Dear MSP Community, It’s so great to see our campus filled with people and activity, and to greet many of you each day. Your smiles may be behind masks, but I can tell they’re there by the sparkle in your eyes. I knew I missed being together, but until returning

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Welcome to a New Academic Year

Dear MSP Community, Welcome to a new academic year at the Michigan School of Psychology. For the first time in several months I’m writing to you from my office on campus; I’m delighted to be doing so. Even while the risk of COVID and its variants continue, I’m experiencing a

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Student Scholarship Award Recipients 2020/21

MSP is committed to contributing annually to assist in student scholarships and aid. Scholarship and financial assistance funding is supported by gifts from alumni, family, and friends. Generally, funds are disbursed in the form of tuition credit. This academic year we are pleased to announce the following recipients. The Cereta

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Student Perspective: Navigating Virtual MSP

Over a year has passed since MSP moved all of our operations remote in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Never could we have predicted what is now the “new normal.” Below, Kenneth McDermott (MA) explores his experience in our virtual format. Coming into the MA program knowing it would be

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Justice for George Floyd

Dear MSP Community: Today was an important day in the fight against racism. But it’s only a first step. As I watched the media coverage of the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, I was struck by the reactions of so many Black Americans, many of whom warned against celebrating

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