Fellowship for Underrepresented Students in Psychology

Psychology, as discipline and practice, holds tremendous emancipatory potential—across all levels of the individual, family, community and nation. Unfortunately, however, it does not always rise to its full potential. One such constraining condition pertains to the lack of equitable training and representation of practitioners from diverse backgrounds. We believe the field of psychology—as scholarly discipline, as well as service profession—is impoverished and limited by this state of affairs. The summer fellowship at Duquesne University is one of several ways we attempt some measure of redress.

For 60 years, the psychology program at Duquesne has trained exemplary psychologists. Our program is fully APA-accredited, one of only two accredited human science psychology programs in the country. As a human science psychology program, we emphasize qualitative research, philosophical psychological engagement, ethical clinical training, community engagement and social justice.

We offer a fully funded fellowship, including travel, meals and accommodation support, to participants in our week-long residential program of activities. This year, our fellowship program will run from June 9 through June 13.

Program Objectives

The goal of the psychology summer fellowship is to:

• prepare prospective students from underrepresented populations for graduate studies in psychology, with particular emphasis on:
  • the variety of graduate school options
  • professional options and diverse career opportunities
  • the graduate school application process
• provide prospective students from underrepresented populations with a resource community.
• introduce prospective students from underrepresented populations to a human science psychology, inclusive of:
  • Therapy and Counseling
  • Research (especially qualitative and community engaged research)
  • Philosophical Psychology