Filling the Gaps of Graduate School Training: Perceived Relevance and Efficacy of the New School Psychology Bulletin

We examined whether the New School Psychology Bulletin (NSPB), a peer reviewed journal operated by graduate students, was perceived as relevant and effective among individuals pursuing clinical, nonclinical (research and academic), and combined clinical and nonclinical careers. Individuals (N = 155) were surveyed for career goals, current research interests, as well as perceived relevance and efficacy of the NSPB. Although research interests differed by career goals, participants perceived the NSPB as effective for providing valuable writing and peer review experiences, cultivating research, and increasing communication between students and faculty, and relevant for training clinical and nonclinical students. The results of this survey suggest that students perceive those skills offered by the NSPB as relevant and effective in their professional development, which in turn, may foster the scientist-practitioner training model.

In the Wake of Laurence Veysey: Re-examining the Liberal Arts College

In The Emergence of the American University, Laurence R. Veysey enriched our understanding of the American university at its creation in the second half of the nineteenth century. He demonstrated how this new institution drew on German approaches and valued experimental, empirical methods of knowledge. The university introduced the lecture and seminar. It valued graduate school training above all; the doctoral dissertation required that its students become creators of new knowledge, preferably by experimental methods. Veysey helped us understand the emerging American university by creating a useful ideal type.