| # | Name | Comments |
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| 901 | Christos P. Stalias | |
| 902 | Krista Wood | |
| 903 | Marcia S. Jackson | |
| 904 | Thomas C. Mawhinney, Ph.D. | Organizational behavior management (OBM), an area of I/O psychology that specializes in performance management, safety and quality of work life in formal organizations, will suffer a great loss if the master of I/O psychology program at WMU is closed. Given the importance of performance improvement among domestic organizations facing growing global competition and the fact that the I/O program at WMU provides high quality education regarding the means of improving human performance in formal organizations, closing the program will have consequences that extend beyond its students to organizations they might help in the future. No doubt faculty in the psychology department at WMU have pointed out the fact that their graduates from the I/O program have been well placed and more than a few have gone on to earn doctorates in the field. I believe it is not only in the best interests of the state of Michigan, but in our national interest to graduate increasing numbers of students capable of contributing to performance improvement and safety in domestic work organizations. The I/O program at WMU currently does an admirable job of contributing that important objective of education in this region and in this nation. We need more programs like the master of I/O psychology at WMU, not fewer. (I confess that as coeditor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management I have a personal interest in the well being of the WMU I/O program because its students and faculty contribute high quality research articles to JOBM. But, I also believe that JOBM is an excellent source of information concerning how to improve performance, safety and quality for work life in formal organizations.) |
| 905 | Erin Jeltema | As a WMU psychology graduate, I do not understand how a University who claims to be community driven and committed to the future of Health sciences can even consider cutting programs which are full of students and professors who provide these vital services to the community and to WMU's future, especially since these programs are widely recognized for thier work and body of research to the field of psychology. Cutting these programs will only serve to send psychology to other schools outside of Michigan. |
| 906 | Anonymous | |
| 907 | Anonymous | |
| 908 | Shanee Laurent | |
| 909 | Matt | |
| 910 | RoAnn Smith | |
| 911 | Brandi Engel | |
| 912 | Elizabeth A. Yeater, Ph.D. | |
| 913 | Darlene Crone-Todd, Ph.D. | As a student who received their Ph.D. in Canada and received further training in the US, I can attest that the psychology programs at WMU are held in high regard by a number of people in the field.
Please reconsider this decision. |
| 914 | Allison DeGraaf | |
| 915 | Robyn Walser | It would be a tragedy to lose these programs at WMU. I have worked with excellent professionals from the clinical program and enjoy collegial relationships that include joint research and writing projects. I have worked with students from this program. They are well trained, and contribute on multiple professional levels. My hope is that the President of WMU will see the error in eliminating this program and reverse her decision.
Sincerely, Robyn D. Walser |
| 916 | Jeff Musselman | |
| 917 | Karyn Olszak | |
| 918 | Sigrid S. Glenn, Ph.D. | I was shocked and dismayed to learn, at a recent international conference, that WMU stands to lose its clinical and industrial psychology programs. These programs are recognized throughout the world as programs of scientific integrity that promote evidence-based practice. Losing these programs would certainly damage WMU's reputation as well as result in a significant loss of opportunity for prospective students from many countries.
Please reconsider this decision.
Respectfully,
Sigrid Glenn
Regents Professor
University of North Texas |
| 919 | Kay Rafferty | |
| 920 | Amy Baranek | It would be a great loss to the field of psychology, particularly behavioral psychology to loose valuable programs like those at WMU! |
| 921 | Andrea Molina | |
| 922 | Eugene O'Gorman | Please keep the clinicial psychology PHD program. It adds depths and breath to university. |
| 923 | Thomas Brown | I want the President to keep the Clinical Pysch Graduate program |
| 924 | Anonymous | |
| 925 | Kenneth Shamlian | I am not accustomed to the specifics of the impact upon the immediate community of eliminating the doctoral program for clinical psychology. However, as a consumer looking at clinical psychology programs who will be applying next year, WMU was among my top choices with Kansas U., S. Illinois Univ., and CUNY due to their behaviorist orientation. I would hate to eliminate WMU as a choice next year. |
| 926 | James Kraft | |
| 927 | Sara (Sytsma) Jordan, Ph.D. | |
| 928 | Catherine Moore | |
| 929 | Rachelle Allen | |
| 930 | becky | |
| 931 | Michael Makepeace, Ph.D. | |
| 932 | Adam D Bancroft, JD | |
| 933 | Jason Glidden | |
| 934 | Melanie Henshaw | |
| 935 | John Hunter | |
| 936 | Dr. Lyle K. Grant | The WMU Psychology department is very well respected, with many distinguished graduates. The department should be expanding rather than contracting. |
| 937 | Kari Colwell | |
| 938 | Janice Williamson | |
| 939 | Anonymous | |
| 940 | Alex Birchmeier | |
| 941 | Anonymous | As an employee of WMU and someone deeply invested in the future of the university and its community--local, national, and global--I am shocked by the decision to destroy this valuable and widely respected program. |
| 942 | Paul R. Malanga, Ph.D | I was dismayed to learn that the WMU President was proposing eliminating the I/O Masters program and doctoral programs in clinical and school psychology. I received my Masters degree from the psychology dept and am familiar with the high quality of education provided in WMUs psychology dept. Western's psychology dept is well known and respected in the field and it's common knowledge that Western provides some of the best education in the country when it comes to evidence-based practice. It goes without saying that past and current faculty in the psychology dept have worked hard to establish the reputation as one of the best programs available. It would be a grave mistake to eliminate these programs and would do the field a great disservice. |
| 943 | Sara Macak | |
| 944 | Janet A. Hanson | Since there is mental illness in my family and because I believe WMU programs are very good, I would like to support maintaining the psychology programs. An alumnus, Class of 1976. Janet Hanson |
| 945 | Anonymous | |
| 946 | Keith Blenman | |
| 947 | Erick Dubuque | |
| 948 | derilyn Berube | |
| 949 | Martha R. Cohen, LMSW | |
| 950 | Brian Lakey, Ph.D. | |
