"I am beyond excited to be able to give back
to a community that has given me so much."
February was a great month for opening doors to research and representation for students for Child and Adolescent Development (CADV) faculty Tissyana Camacho. Within days of being welcomed into the 5th annual ELEVATE conference where she will join a small cohort of fellows with the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, she found out she is also the recipient of the American Psychological Association's SUPRE Grant on behalf of the department of CADV. We are excited to share this news about yet another way HHD faculty are improving people’s lives and increasing the footprint of HHD.
ELEVATE (Enriching Learning, Enhancing Visibility and Training Educators) is an annual early-career faculty training program that will take place in Philadelphia at the end of May, 2019. It is a three-day professional development experience that the Penn Center describes addressing the “unique needs of early career faculty members at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and will support the ongoing learning, training, and networking of early career MSI faculty.”
Camacho will participate in workshops and collaborative experiences, and will have opportunities to network with peers. Conference topics include grant writing, developing a research agenda, teaching, mentoring, and achieving tenure. A primary goal of the event is to help participants strengthen research and practice to enhance the visibility of MSIs in national conversations. Camacho will also get to know faculty from sister-CSU campuses as well as a variety of renowned universities from across the US.
Meet the 2019 cohort of 25 ELEVATE Fellows.
About the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions: The Center “brings together researchers and practitioners from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions and elevates the educational contributions of MSIs.”
The grant from the American Psychological Association will help Tissyana open doors for CADV students as she pursues her own research interests. Camacho said, “The research-training grant will allow our department to hire four full-time research assistants for eight weeks in the summer of 2019. This is a great opportunity to provide paid training to our CADV students while also supplying CADV faculty with full time RAs to assist in their research endeavors.” As a former CSUN undergraduate student, Camacho benefited from similar paid research opportunities at CSUN and she is delighted to be able provide this experience for CADV students. “The research training I received as a CSUN undergraduate was critical to my success post-graduation. I am beyond excited to be able to give back to a community that has given me so much,” Camacho stated.
More information on the SUPRE Grant is forthcoming from the APA which will also report on which programs were selected in the APA Science Directorate newsletter, Psychological Science Agenda.
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