ENVIRONMENT
The Social-Personality Program is based at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Nearly a dozen Social-Personality faculty are in residence at the Graduate Center, and additional faculty from other CUNY campuses (including Hunter, Queens, and Brooklyn) also participate as teachers and research supervisors for Ph.D. students. In addition to the Social-Personality Program, Developmental and Environmental Psychology Ph.D. training programs are based at the Graduate School. There is considerable interaction among student and faculty from all three psychology sub-programs.
Social-Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate School offers students a wide range of professional opportunities for teaching and research, as well as personal support. The Social-Personality Psychology Program is home to the Health Psychology Concentration. Teaching-Assistant and Adjunct positions are available to advanced students at many of CUNY's branch campuses. Doctoral candidates at the CUNY Graduate Center can gain certification in Women's Studies and Advanced Social Science Methods, and can participate in the Center for Social Research, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), the Center of African American and Caribbean Diaspora, and the African, Latino, Asian, Native American Student Organization (ALANA).
All doctoral students in the Social-Personality Program receive their own mail-box and their own office space. In addition, Program provides its own computers (with the latest versions of Word Perfect, Word, and SPSS for Windows), printers, telephones, a student lounge and journal library, and other research amenities, all of which are available to students.