How Well-Known are CGU's Psychology Programs?

Claremont Graduate University is well-known nationally and internationally as the foremost school for both Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science.

Below are just a few of the accomplishments of our graduate faculty:

Leaders

• A recent President of the American Psychological Association
• Two recent  Presidents of the Western Psychological Association
• One of the founders of the field of Evaluation Science
• A co-founder of the field of Positive Psychology
• A Special Advisor to the Domestic Policy Staff in the White House under President Carter
• Both Co-Leaders of the Southern California Evaluation Association
• The Chair of the Executive Committee for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• A member of the Child Labor Advisory Committee for the US Dept. of Labor
• A former Assistant Director of the National Institute of Education
• A former member of the Board of Directors for the Academy of Human Resource Development

Award-winning teachers

• A recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Eminent Women in Psychology
• A Recipient of the Western Psychological Association Outstanding Teaching Award (1997)
• The developer of WISE, the award-winning stats website
• A recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training

Researchers

• The Program Director in Social Psychology for the National Science Foundation
• A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Senior Scientist
• Project directors with Los Angeles’s Better Educated Students for Tomorrow (LA’s BEST)
• A researcher who conducted a performance assessment of the New York State Police
• Primary Investigators on projects funded by:
  • the National Science Foundation
  • the National Institute of Mental Health
  • the U.S. Department of Education
  • the J. Paul Getty Museum's "Art Detection" Program
  • the USDA Forest Service
  • First 5 Los Angeles
  • the Partnership for Families (PFF) Initiative
  • the California State Office of Child Abuse Prevention
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • the California Wellness Foundation's $20 million statewide Work and Health Initiative
  • the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  • Even Start Family Literacy Programs
  • the Reading by 9 Principal Leadership Initiative
  • NIH’s project for AIDS Volunteerism
  • the National Institute of Education, the American Cancer Society
• The Senior Methodologist for NBC/Microsoft's project on the 1996 presidential election
• A Member of the Data Monitoring and Safety Board of the National Institute of Mental Health HIV Prevention Collaborative Study
• The Director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC)
• Two Recipients of the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Early Career Achievement Award
• A recipient of the Western Psychological Association's Outstanding Research Award

Endowed Fellows

• Two Fellows of the American Psychological Society
• A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• A Fulbright Fellow at the Federal University-Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• A Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
• A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• A Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• The Senior Fulbright Fellow for Brazil and New Zealand
• The Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow for The American Academy of Political and Social Science
• Recipient of the American Psychological Association’s William A. Bailey AIDS Policy Congressional Fellowship

Editors of Major Scientific Journals

• An Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
• A Senior Consulting Editor for the SAGE Social Psychology Program
• The Co-founder and Editor of the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
• An Editorial Assistant for Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39 Journal)
• An Editor of Applied Cognitive Psychology
• Two members of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Evaluation
• A member of the editorial board of New Directions for Evaluation

Faculty Who Have Garnered Attention with the General Public

• A member of the Board of Advisors of the Encyclopedia Britannica
• An author of short stories published in The New Yorker and essays published in The Nation
• Faculty who have been featured in major televised stories on NOVA, Good Morning America, and the BBC
• Faculty who have been featured in major print stories in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, The London Times, and Psychology Today
• An eyewitness testimony expert who has testified on eyewitness identification in Federal, State and Superior Court cases

In addition to our full-time faculty, we have a steadily-growing roster of guest lecturers and presenters that includes many of the biggest names in the history and current practice of psychology.

How Is CGU Accredited?

We are accredited with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the primary accrediting body in the western United States.

A recent study by the National Science Foundation found that Claremont Graduate University has the only program in Evaluation classifiable as "large," based on the high number of faculty in the area and extensive course offerings.

For more information, please contact us at (909) 621-8084.