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The Radford University
Psy.D. Program is not yet accredited by the American Psychological Association;
however, we expect to apply for accreditation during the 2011-2012 academic
year, when the first students go on internship. Please see the first section of
the FAQ page for more information on how we are preparing for accreditation.
If you have questions
about the accreditation process for doctoral programs in psychology, you can
contact the APA via the following means:
American Psychological Association
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
/ Commission on
Accreditation
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Phone: 202-336-5979
TDD/TTY: 202-336-6123
Fax: 202-336-5978
E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org
Internet Webpage: http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation
Although the Psy.D. Program
is not APA-accredited, Radford University is fully accredited by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools (http://www.sacs.org/).
The Radford University
Psy.D. Program is a psychology program intended to educate and train
psychologists. We are an identifiable program within the Psychology Department,
which is located within the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences.
We have 6 core faculty
members, all of whom received their Ph.D. from APA-accredited Counseling
Psychology programs; details about the faculty can be found in another page. Dr.
Mullis will be retiring after the Fall 2008 semester but will remain available
for consultation; we anticipate initiating a search to fill Dr. Mullis’ position
in the Fall of 2009 with the person starting in the Fall of 2010. The core Psy.D.
faculty have primary responsibility for the core and specialty areas in the
curriculum and the Psy.D. Program Director has authority to act for the core
faculty in these regards within the Department of Psychology and elsewhere at
the University.
The first cohort of five
students started the program in the Fall of 2008; details about these students
can be found on another page.

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Radford
University Psy.D. Disclosure Information |

The American
Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation requires that accredited
programs post information in five areas on their websites. Although the Radford
program is not yet accredited, we want to make sure prospective applicants have
the same information in order to be able to compare our program with others. The
specific requirements can be found on page 48 (C-20. Disclosure of
Education/Training Outcomes and Information Allowing for Informed
Decision-Making to Prospective Doctoral Students) of the Commission on
Accreditation Policy Statements and Implementing Regulations document located
at:
http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation/implementregs200524.pdf
If you have questions about this rule or about the
accreditation process you can contact:
The American Psychological Association
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation /
Commission on Accreditation
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Phone: 202-336-5979
TDD/TTY: 202-336-6123
Fax: 202-336-5978
E-mail:
apaaccred@apa.org
1. Time to Completion
In their public materials,
programs should provide the mean and the median number of years that students
have taken to complete the program from the time of program entrance. These data
should be provided for all graduates over the past seven years. Where
applicable, these measures should be provided
separately for students who began the program as bachelor level graduates and
those who began with advanced standing (e.g., after having completed a separate
master's program in psychology). The program should also provide the percentage
of students completing the program in fewer than five years, five years, six
years, seven years, and more than seven years.
The Radford Psy.D. Program
enrolled its first cohort of students in Fall 2008. The program will only
accept students who already have a Master’s degree. Thus, currently we have no
graduates so we cannot provide a mean or median time to completion. Our goal is
for students to complete their coursework, dissertation, and internship within 4
years.
2. Program Costs
Programs are expected to make available the costs (i.e.,
tuition and fees) per student for the current first year cohort. This
information should include full time student tuition, tuition per credit hour
for part time students, and any fees assessed to students beyond tuition costs.
Programs may also provide information regarding current adjustments to tuition
including, but not limited to: financial aid, grants, loans, tuition remission,
assistantships, and fellowships.
We first list the costs and then explain how the Radford
program will offset these costs. The planned curriculum requires students to
take 1-13 credits per semester, depending on the particular term. According to
the 2008-2009 Graduate Student Handbook (p. 24), tuition and fees for in-state
students taking 1-11 hours are $300/credit hour while tuition and fees for
out-of-state students are $576/credit hour; for 12-18 hours tuition and fees are
$3597 per semester for in-state students and $7194 for out-of-state students.
Based on this information and the proposed curriculum we
have developed, we offer the following projected tuition and fee costs for the
program:
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Term |
Number of Hours |
In-State Costs |
Out-of-State Costs |
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Fall
1 |
12 |
$3597 |
$7194 |
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Spring 1 |
12 |
$3597 |
$7194 |
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Summer 1 |
12 |
$3597 |
$7194 |
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Fall
2 |
12 |
$3597 |
$7194 |
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Spring 2 |
12 |
$3597 |
$7194 |
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Summer 2 |
9 |
$2700 |
$5184 |
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Fall
3 |
13 |
$3597 |
$7194 |
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Spring 3 |
10 |
$3000 |
$5760 |
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Summer 3 |
3 |
$
900 |
$1728 |
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Fall
4 |
1 |
$
300 |
$
576 |
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Spring 4 |
1 |
$
300 |
$
576 |
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Summer 4 |
1 |
$
300 |
$
576 |
Obviously, if tuition and fee costs go up then the expenses will go up.
Also, if students are able to waive doctoral courses because of courses
taken as part of their Master’s program and do not take electives to fill in
the time when those courses would have met, the costs would go down
accordingly.
In
terms of adjusting for these costs, like most schools, Radford offers
various forms of financial aid. Of most relevance and importance to
prospective Psy.D. applicants, pending adequate funding from the
Commonwealth, the University has committed to providing tuition remission
(for both in-state and out-of-state students in the first year and for those
who qualify for in-state tuition in their second and third years) and an
assistantship for qualified students throughout the three years of
coursework, provided the students remain in good standing. The 20-hour
assistantship for 2008-2009 is $13,800; the amount in subsequent years will
depend on funding from the Commonwealth. Thus, in 2008-2009 (and we
anticipate in future years), instead of paying for school, students will not
have to pay tuition of fees and instead will be paid while taking courses.
3. Internships
Programs are expected to
provide data for at least the most recent seven years of graduates showing their
success in obtaining internships. These data should show the number and
percentage of students in the following categories:
•
Those who obtained internships
•
Those who obtained paid internships
•
Those who obtained APPlC member
internships
•
Those who obtained APA/CPA accredited
internships
•
Those who obtained internships
conforming to CDSPP guidelines (school psychology only)
•
Those who obtained two year half-time
internships
NOTE: In calculating the
percentages, the program must use the total number of students
applying for internship that year.
As we noted above, our first
cohort of students entered in Fall 2008, so we will not any students eligible
to begin internship until Fall 2011. Therefore, we do not have any data yet to
report.
Program faculty and
University administrators have discussed the issues associated with internship
placement and we are actively working on several possibilities that we expect
will maximize the likelihood that all of our students will be placed in APPIC-member
or APA-accredited internships, including creating our own internship site that
will guarantee placements for Radford students.
4. Attrition
Programs are expected to
report the number and percentage of students who have failed to complete the
program once enrolled. These data should be calculated for each entering cohort
by dividing the number of students in that cohort who have left the program for
any reason by the total number of students initially enrolled in that same
cohort. These data should be provided by cohort for all students who have left
the program in the last seven years or for all students who have left since the
program became initially accredited, whichever time period is shorter.
The format below is
EFFECTIVE as of January 1, 2008.
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Year of
Enrollment |
#Enrolled* |
# Graduated with
Doctorate |
# Still Currently
Enrolled |
# No Longer
Enrolled |
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2000 |
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* Consistent with institutional definition and
policy
As with some of the previous
items, we have no data to report yet on attrition.
Our goal is to provide
thorough information and “informed consent” to students regarding the Psy.D.
Program foci, work-load, and expectations. We also plan to very carefully screen
applicants and only offer admission to students who we believe are a good fit
for the Program and who we believe have the background necessary to succeed at
Radford and as a Counseling Psychologist. Thus, we hope that the attrition rate
will be low.
5. Licensure
This section EFFECTIVE
January 1, 2008 and for published materials for 2008-2009
Reporting of program
licensure data is an expectation of the US Secretary of Education’s National
Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity for program
accreditors, including the APA Committee on Accreditation. Programs are expected
to report the number and percentage of program graduates who have become
licensed psychologists within the preceding decade. This percentage should be
calculated by dividing the number of students who have both graduated and become
licensed psychologists within the 8 years spanning the period of 2-10 years
post-graduation by the number of doctoral degrees awarded by the program over
that same period. That is, the figures reported by a program for 2007 would be
number of students who graduated from the program during the period 1997-2005
and who have achieved licensure divided by the number of students graduating
from the program during that same 8-year period. Program licensure rates are to
be updated at least every three years. Programs may interpret their licensure
rate in light of their training model and program goals and objectives.
As with several previous
items, we do not have data yet on the percentage of students who have become
licensed psychologists.
Because we are a Psy.D.
Program and have a focus on training practitioners to provide mental health
services in rural areas, we hope to have a very high percentage of graduates who
become licensed psychologists.
. . .
As we discuss in both the
Accreditation page and the first section of the FAQs page,
the Radford University Psy.D. Program is not yet accredited by the American
Psychological Association. If you have questions about the accreditation process
for doctoral programs in psychology, you can contact the APA via the following
means:
American Psychological Association
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation / Commission on Accreditation
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Phone: 202-336-5979
TDD/TTY: 202-336-6123
Fax: 202-336-5978
E-mail:
apaaccred@apa.org
Internet Webpage:
http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation
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