Dr. Rodney L. Lowman to Head APA Strategic Planning Advisory Committee

San Diego - April 24, 2007 -- Alliant Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Rodney L. Lowman has been named to head the Strategic Planning Advisory Committee for the American Psychological Association (APA).

Dr. Lowman, also an APA Council Representative, is trained in both Industrial-Organizational and Clinical Psychology. He has served as Chair of APA’s Board of Professional Affairs, on its Ethics Committee, Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessments, as president of Division 13 (Consulting Psychology) and of the Society of Psychologists in Management. His scholarship areas include organizational consultation, ethics, work dysfunctions and career assessment.

“We’ve put together a rather distinguished committee with whom I will have the pleasure of serving,” said Dr. Lowman.

The new Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Advisory Committee was established at February’s APA Council Meeting. APA CEO Norm Anderson asked Dr. Lowman to chair the committee.

“I am very proud to chair this august group. This is, by any standard, an exceptionally distinguished committee. The members cover quite a range of relevant background for helping to advise Norm on his strategic planning efforts for APA,” said Dr. Lowman.

“The members of this committee cover a very wide range of specialty areas and types of settings (academia, government, military, industry) and are professionals who are well positioned to see the big picture and to advise APA as it strategically plans for its future. We are also both geographically and ethnically diverse.”

Committee members

W. Rodney Hammond (PhD, Florida State University) – Director, Violence Prevention Division at the US Center for Disease Controls and Prevention in Atlanta
Suzanne Bennett Johnson (PhD, SUNY Stony Brook; Current APA Council Rep) – serves as head of the Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at the new medical school at Florida State University
Nan Klein (PhD, University of Utah; Current APA Council Rep) – currently serves as Associate Chair of APA’s Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice
Guerda Nicolas (PhD, Boston University) – serves as chair of the Committee on Early Career Psychologists for APA. She is an Assistant Professor at Boston College
James Quick (PhD, University of Houston), John and Judy Goolsby Distinguished Professor in the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at Arlington
Sandy Shullman (PhD, Ohio State University; Current Council Rep).

Congratulations Dr. Lowman!

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