| The hiring of new provost Dr. Russ Newman signals auspicious new beginnings at Alliant International University. Dr. Newman, currently the Executive Director for Professional Practice for the American Psychological Association (APA), will begin his term as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs in January of 2008. Dr. Newman will be Alliant’s top academic officer and second in command on President Geoffrey Cox’s leadership team.  Dr. Newman, who is a clinical psychologist, lawyer and Fellow of the APA, is currently responsible for spearheading and promoting APA activities involving legislative advocacy, legal initiatives, efforts to shape the evolving health care market and a nationwide public education campaign to enhance the value of psychological services. He has been active in the “prescriptive authority movement,” the profession's effort to gain prescriptive authority for appropriately trained psychologists, since the movement's inception. Dr. Newman joins Alliant at a time of new vision, leadership and growth. In the past several years, the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) pioneered the nation’s first post-doctoral master of science program in clinical psychopharmacology, Japan’s first master’s program in psychology and the first US-based doctoral degree in clinical psychology offered in Hong Kong. Alliant’s popular forensic psychology programs will be expanding to San Diego next year. Its Early Completion Option program for teachers – a unique program that allows a student to earn a California teaching credential in just nine months while on the job – has also expanded to several new markets over the past two years. “Dr. Newman is an innovator and a persuasive leader,” said Alliant President Dr. Geoffrey Cox. “He’s joining an organization that values those traits, and we look forward to his contributions here at Alliant. Dr. Newman is highly respected in the psychology profession, and he has a track record for growing his organization. We welcome his vision, his energy and his organizational skills.” From 1986 until 1993, Dr. Newman served as the APA Practice Directorate’s assistant executive director (AED) for legal and regulatory affairs. In this capacity he was involved with advocacy initiatives on behalf of professional psychology, and helped educate the psychological community on the impact of the legal system on the practice of psychology. The wide range of issues with which Dr. Newman was directly involved included antitrust, malpractice, credentialing, reimbursement, scope of practice, hospital practice and managed care. From 1979 to 1986, Dr. Newman was Staff Psychologist and Director of Clinical Psychology Training at Harding Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. His specialty areas were the treatment of adolescents and forensic psychology. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University in 1979 and his JD from Capital University Law School in 1987. Dr. Newman will take the helm from outgoing Provost/VPAA Dr. Rodney Lowman in January 2008, just as Alliant begins the work of redeveloping and expanding its campuses in San Diego and San Francisco. Dr. Newman will be based on Alliant’s largest campus, the Scripps Ranch Campus in San Diego. “Dr. Lowman will be a tough act to follow, but we have every confidence that Dr. Newman will be able to build upon the foundations that he has laid,” said President Cox. “Dr. Lowman, who served as interim president at a critical point in Alliant’s history, and who was a founding dean of our school of organizational psychology, leaves with our commendation and thanks.” Dr. Lowman has been named the new president of Lake Superior State University and will begin work there in October. About Alliant
Alliant International University, a nonprofit with six California locations, a Mexico City campus and programs in Hong Kong and Tokyo, provides professionally-oriented degree programs in business, education and psychology. Alliant serves an exceptionally diverse student body of more than 3,600 students: last year Diverse Magazine ranked Alliant 6th for awarding doctorates to minority women and 14th for doctorates to minorities (all disciplines combined) while in 2006-7 US News & World Report rated Alliant #1 in international diversity among national doctoral universities. Alliant was formed in 2001 by the combination of the California School of Professional Psychology and United States International University. | 
