Preliminary Survey for the Council of Christian Scholarly Societies


A group of five research psychologists responded to an invitation by the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies(IFACS) and the Council of Christian Scholarly Societies (CCSS) to investigate the possibility of forming a group of Christian academic psychologists.

We invite all academic psychologists interested in teaching and research, who identify themselves as Christian, to read more about this initiative. We also encourage you to fill out this brief survey below. Please respond only once. At some point, we will assess the results and contact those individuals who express an interest to help us take the first steps in forming a new society. Please point others with similar interests to this site to complete the survey as well.

Our goal is to determine if a society of Christian academic psychologists is viable. Your input is valuable to us. We are particularly interested in bringing together psychologists from both Christian/Private colleges and those in public/secular institutions.

For more information, please feel free to contact a member of the task force:

Harold Delaney, University of New Mexico hdelaney@unm.edu
Tom Fikes, Westmont College fikes@westmont.edu
Marji Gunnoe, Calvin College mgunnoe@calvin.edu
Kent Norman, University of Maryland kent_norman@umail.umd.edu
Scott VanderStoep, Hope College vanderstoep@hope.edu

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1. How interested would you be in becoming a member of an organization of Christian academic psychologists?

Very Interested
Interested
Uninterested
Very Uninterested

2. How widespread do you think the interest would be in such an organization among colleagues at your and other institutions?

I can think of 5 or fewer people who would likely join.
I can think of 5-10 people who would likely join.
I can think of 10-20 people who would likely join.
I can think of over 20 people who would likely join.

Please indicate how interested you would be in participating in different activities that might be sponsored by such an organization.

Very
Interested		InterestedUninterestedVery
Uninterested
3. Subscribing to and participating in a listserve devoted to issues related to being a Christian academic psychologist.
4. Acquiring and/or contributing to resources for teaching psychology from a Christian perspective.
5. Acquiring and/or contributing to resources for understanding Christian perspectives on psychological research.
6. Attending a dinner, speaker, or mini-conference connected with one of the national psychology conferences.
7. Attending a bi-annual conference sponsored by this organization.

Please answer the following questions about yourself and your institution:

8. What area of academic psychology best describes your training, teaching, and research interests. (Select no more than two.)

Animal Behavior/Experimental
Clinical/Counseling
Cognitive
Developmental
Educational
Industrial/Organizational
Neuroscience
Quantitative/Methodology
Personality/Social
Other:

9. What is the name of your institution?

10. What best describes your current institution?

Two year community college
Four year teaching college or university
Research and teaching university (graduate program)
Research institution

11. What best describes the orientation of your institution?

Christian/Parochial
Secular/Public
Other:

12. What best describes your current appointment?

Graduate student
Postdoctoral student
Instructor
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
Tenured Faculty (Associate or Full Professor)
Research Faculty (no teaching)
Academic Administrator
Non-academic position (e.g., clinical setting, applied I/O)

13. What conferences do you regularly attend (you can select more than one)?

APA (American Psycholocial Association)
APS (American Psychological Society)
Human Factors and Ergonomic Society
Society for Neuroscience
Psychonomic Society
American Educational Research Association
Society for Research on Child Development
A regional psychology conference (EPA, MPA, WPA)
Other:

14. How often do you attend what you would consider your primary academic conference?

Every year or almost every year
Every other year
Every third year
Less than once every three years

15. How long since you completed your final academic degree?

Currently in graduate school
Less than 5 years
5-9 years
10-14 years
15-19 years
20 or more years

16. Please add any comments and questions that you have about this endeavor: