Dr.
Walter vom Saal
Dr. Walter vom Saal:
is currently Professor
of Psychology at State University of New York College at Oneonta.
has taught at the graduate
and undergraduate levels at Princeton University, Millersville University
of Pennsylvania, and State University of New York. Current courses include
General Psychology, Research Methods, Psychology of Human Sexuality, and Psychology
of Adulthood and Aging.
has been a college
academic vice president and an interim college president in the State University
of New York system.
has served as a licensed
psychologist who has done individual therapy and has led numerous workshops
and personal growth and training groups.
has received federal
grants from National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Mental
Health to conduct research, with numerous conference presentations, papers,
and journal publications.
has received honors
including BA degree summa cum laude from Columbia University, membership
in Phi Beta Kappa and other honorary societies, selection to national Who's
Who listings, and two state-wide Commonwealth of Pennsylvania teaching awards.
Walter vom Saal, Ph.D.
Curriculum
Vita
Spring
2003
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EDUCATION:
B.A. (Psychology) --
Columbia University 1966
M.A. (Psychology) --
McMaster University 1967
Ph.D. (Psychology) --
McMaster University 1969
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
July 1994 to present.
Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York, College
at Oneonta.
July 1993 to January
1994. Interim President, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh.
February 1989 to June
1994. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of
New York, College at Oneonta.
Spring 1987 to February
1989: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Millersville University,
Millersville, PA.
Fall 1986 to Spring 1987:
Assistant Provost, Millersville University.
Spring 1981 to Fall 1986:
Chairperson, Department of Psychology, Millersville University.
Fall 1979 to Fall 1986:
Professor of Psychology, Millersville University.
Fall 1974 to Fall 1979:
Associate Professor of Psychology, Millersville University.
Fall 1973 to Summer 1974
(leave of absence from Princeton): Assistant Director of Behavior Modification
Programs, New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute (750-bed state facility).
Fall 1969 to Spring 1974:
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Distinguished Teaching Chair ($3,500, highest state-wide teaching award, 1979).
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Teaching Fellow ($2,500 state-wide teaching award, 1979).
Millersville University
Certificate of Excellence in Teaching (1979).
Charter member, Millersville
University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honorary society (1979).
Charter member, Millersville
University chapter of Psi Chi honorary society (1989).
Listed in American
Men and Women of Science, 12th edition (1973), in Outstanding Young
Men of America (1977, 1979), Who's Who in American Education, 5th
edition (1995).
Faculty Fellowship, McMaster
University (university-wide fellowship, 1966-1969, $5,000/year).
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
(1966, declined) and NSF Graduate Fellowship (1966, declined)
Phi Beta Kappa (1966)
Columbia University B.A.
degree summa cum laude (1966)
NSF undergraduate Summer
Research Fellowship (1964)
POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING:
Summer 1987. Harvard
University Management Development Program.
1977-1979. Training and
experience in Human Relations Group Leadership. Participant, trainee, and
co-leader in five-day off-campus workshop, January 1978, and three-day workshop,
August 1978, both under National Training Laboratory (NTL) supervision. Participant,
co-leader, and leader in ten one-day workshops. Trainee leader in five-day
off-campus workshop, January 1979, under NTL supervision.
Summer 1975. Post-doctoral
training at four-week residential Institute in Behavior Therapy under supervision
of Dr. Joseph Wolpe, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and Temple
University.
1969-present. Attendance
at numerous conventions, conferences, and workshops in the areas of psychology
and behavior therapy, human relations, microcomputers, and management.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1994-present (SUNY Oneonta): currently teaching courses in the Psychology Department
including Adulthood and Aging, Human Sexuality, and Introductory Psychology,
and Research Methods.
1974-1986 (Millersville
University):
Supervised 13 Masters
Theses and 3 Undergraduate Honors Theses.
Taught undergraduate
courses in General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Behavior Modification,
Human Relations, Senior Seminar in Psychology, and Microcomputers in Education.
Taught graduate courses
in Research Methods, Behavior Therapy, Advanced Adolescent Psychology, Psychology
of the Gifted, Classroom Discipline, and Classroom Microcomputer Applications.
Developed several new
courses, including: undergraduate course in Behavior Modification; advanced
graduate course in Behavior Therapy; graduate workshop for teachers in Classroom
Discipline; undergraduate course in Microcomputers in Education.
Designed and taught noncredit
continuing education courses in assertiveness training; workshops for teachers
in classroom discipline, assertiveness, and coping with tension and stress.
1973-1974 (New Jersey
Neuropsychiatric Institute): taught staff training
programs in behavior modification for paraprofessionals, social workers, psychologists,
and psychiatrists.
1969-1973 (Princeton
University): taught undergraduate courses in General Psychology
and in Conditioning and Learning; taught several graduate seminars in learning;
supervised three Ph.D. theses and four undergraduate honors theses.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
1978-1988. Licensed Psychologist
in Pennsylvania (Certificate No. PS-002770-L).
1977-1982. Experience
leading Weight Control groups, Assertiveness Training groups, Values Clarification
groups, Human Relations groups, and Personal Growth groups.
1973-1974. Experience
conducting behavior modification groups with mentally ill clients, drug addicts,
alcoholics, and prison inmates at New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
1993-1994. Involvement
in numerous community events and activities as chief representative of SUNY
Plattsburgh while serving as Interim President of that college.
1989-1994. Involvement
in numerous community events and activities as college Provost at SUNY Oneonta.
Board Member, Catskill Area School Study Council.
1974-1989. More than
28 talks and invited presentations at Millersville University and to local
groups and agencies.
1978-1984. Case consultations
and staff development training at local mental health agencies and group homes
for the mentally retarded.
1981-1983. Consultant
for development of Problem Drinking Awareness Program (intervention program
for alcohol impaired drivers utilized by Lancaster County Courts).
1983-1984. Collaboration
and consultation with Director of Lancaster County Alcohol Impaired Driving
Program regarding long-term research project on personality predictors and
treatment modalities for alcohol impaired drivers.
RESEARCH SUPPORT (major
grants only):
1995. Co-developer for
three-year grant from Foundation for Long Term Care, Inc., on student service-learning
projects in elder care.
1984. Collaborated in
research proposal by Director of Lancaster County Alcohol Impaired Driving
Program, which was funded by Lancaster County MH/MR office.
1974-1976. National Science
Foundation Grant #BMS 75-01157, "Development of a General Model of Choice."
Principal Investigator W. vom Saal.
1973-1974. National Science
Foundation Grant #GB 36975, "Development of a General Model of Choice."
Principal Investigator W. vom Saal.
1972-1973. National Institutes
of Health Grant #MH 22161, "Investigation of Choice Behavior." Principal
Investigator W. vom Saal.
1970-1971. National Institutes
of Health Grant #MH 18824, "Attention in Animal Discrimination Learning."
Principal Investigator W. vom Saal.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
1993-1994. Interim
President, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. Chief
Executive Officer at a comprehensive public college with over 6,200 students,
397 faculty, 873 total employees, offering 54 academic majors and degree programs.
Overall responsibility for a budget in excess of $28 million. (July 1993 -
January 1994.)
1989-1994. Provost
and Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York
College at Oneonta. Chief academic officer with responsibility for all academic
programs at institution with 5,000 students, 278 full time faculty, 23 academic
departments. Responsible for budget of over $18 million and total of over
600 employees. Responsibilities included four academic deans, library, learning
support services, educational opportunity program, instructional resources
center, international education, registrar, others. (Title was changed from
Vice President for Academic Affairs to Provost and VPAA in June 1991.)
1987-1989. Associate
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Millersville University. Responsible
for most non-academic departments in Academic Affairs, including Admissions;
Registrar; Academic Information; Academic Advisement; Academic Support Services;
Career Planning and Placement; Library; and Academic Computing (total of 62
personnel). Also supervised honors program and international affairs program,
chaired university Professional Development Committee and Academic Computing
Advisory Committee, and served on all major policy-making councils: union-management
Meet and Discuss; Deans' Council; and President's Advisory Council.
1986-1987. Assistant
Provost, Millersville University. Responsible for Registrar's Office;
Academic Advisement; ROTC; Career Planning, Placement, and Cooperative Education;
and other administrative duties. Reorganization in Academic Affairs in Spring
1987 led to significant expansion of responsibilities and new title.
1981-1986. Department
Chair, Department of Psychology, Millersville University. Responsibilities
included supervision of undergraduate major, masters degree program, and post-masters
certification program in School Psychology.
1983-1986. Chairperson,
Byerly Hall Renovation Committee. Responsible for coordinating and planning
a major $1.4 million renovation.
1982-1986. Chairperson,
University Computer Policy Committee. Established university computing priorities and microcomputer purchase
approval policy; oversaw purchase of $1.3 million in new mainframe computer
equipment.
1984. Half-time released
time to develop Proposal for Teacher Education in Microcomputers, including
course planning, funding, staffing, and detailed plans for School of Education
Microcomputer Laboratory.
1978-1984. Membership
on university-wide committees including Graduate Committee, Graduate Course
Approval Committee (chairperson), Instructional Computer Users Committee,
and University Facilities Committee.
1974-1980. Administrative
responsibilities in Millersville University Psychology Department included
serving as Chairperson of Student Evaluation and Grievance Committee, Graduate
Program Coordinator, and Assistant Chairperson of the Department.
1973-1974. Administrative
duties at New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute included supervising behavior
modification programs for mentally ill patients, drug addicts, alcoholics,
and prison inmates. Additional responsibilities included supervision of staff
training programs for personnel within the institution and from other institutions.
1969-1973. Administrative
duties in Princeton University Psychology Department included serving as Undergraduate
Departmental Representative, responsible for advisement of all undergraduate
majors.
PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS:
vom Saal, W. and Miller,
S. S. (2001). From the nursery to the nursing home: Service learning as a
path to social change. Workshop,
National Service Learning Conference, Denver CO 4/2/01.
vom Saal, W. and Dauria,
A. F. (2000) (2001). The personal
side of retirement: preparing for a successful second half of adult life.
One- and two- hour seminar presentations at Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown
NY 10/18/00 and Consultation Center, Albany NY 3/28/01.
vom Saal, W. (1996).
Symposium chair, "Retirement as a Positive Life Transition." Annual
meeting, New York State Society on Aging, Albany, NY 10/11/96.
vom Saal, W. (1996).
The personal side of retirement. Paper presented at Annual meeting, New York
State Society on Aging, Albany, NY 10/11/96.
vom Saal, W., and Trotta,
W. L. (1989). Managing the three P's of meetings. Supervisory Management,
February 1989, 23-27.
vom Saal, W., and Trotta,
W. L. (1987). Don't threaten your children--or else! Marriage and Family
Living, July 1987, 21-23.
vom Saal, W. (1986).
Exercise and mood: the decision hypothesis. Letter published in Behavior
Therapist, 9, p. 90.
Trotta, W. L., and vom
Saal, W. (1986). The fight-or-flight rather than write response: reducing
writing anxiety in the classroom. English Language Arts Bulletin, 27,
pp 13-15.
Yavil, M. S., and vom
Saal, W. (1985). Interruption frustration disrupts memory. Pennsylvania
Psychologist, November/December, p. 11.
Trotta, W. L., and vom
Saal, W. (1985). "I hate writing but love having written." Pennsylvania
Psychologist, July/August, p. 10.
vom Saal, L. S., vom
Saal, W., Blue, S., and Friedman, G. (1985). Program design for treatment
of alcohol and drug abuse in a partial hospitalization setting. Six-hour pre-conference
institute presented at annual convention of American Association for Partial
Hospitalization.
Trotta, W. L., and vom
Saal, W. (1985). Strategies for the treatment of writing anxiety in the schools.
Paper presented at annual convention of Pennsylvania Psychological Association.
Yavil, M. S., and vom
Saal, W. (1985). Effects of task interruption on unrelated short-term memory.
Paper presented at annual convention of Pennsylvania Psychological Association.
Longo, D. J., and vom
Saal, W. (1984). Respiratory relief therapy: a new treatment procedure for
the reduction of anxiety. Behavior Modification, 8, 361-378.
vom Saal, W. (1984).
Using microcomputers to control student-designed research in a research methods
course. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 16,
147-150.
vom Saal, W., Eckerman,
D. A., Balsam, P., and McDaniel, C. (1984). Getting started with microcomputers
in undergraduate education: hints and guidelines. Behavior Research Methods,
Instruments, and Computers, 16, 144-147.
vom Saal, W. (1983).
Moderator and panelist, symposium on microcomputers in undergraduate education.
Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Society for Computers in Psychology.
Longo, D. J., and vom
Saal, W. (1982). Respiratory relief therapy: a procedure for treating specific
anxiety disorders. Paper presented at annual convention of Association for
the Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
vom Saal, W. (1979).
Letter on TV and Aggression. American Scientist, 67, 136-138.
vom Saal, W. (1976).
Behavior therapy with children: a review of underlying assumptions, treatment
techniques, and research findings. In D. V. Siva Sankar (Ed.), Mental Health
in Children (Vol. 3, pp. 493-570). New York: P. J. D. Publications.
Frankel, P., and vom
Saal, W. (1976). Preference for predicted over unpredicted shock. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 28, 441-447.
Frankel, P., and vom
Saal, W. (1976). Preference between fixed-interval and variable-interval schedules
of reinforcement: separate roles of temporal scaling and predictability. Animal
Learning and Behavior, 4, 71-76.
vom Saal, W., Collier,
A., and May, D. (1974). Discrimination learning based on displaced cues. Paper
presented at annual convention of American Psychological Association.
vom Saal, W. (1973).
Choice based on separately established response tendencies: the effect of
recency of reinforcement. Learning and Motivation, 4, 343-356.
vom Saal, W. (1973).
Determinants of choice in concurrent chains schedules. Paper presented at
annual convention of Eastern Psychological Association.
vom Saal, W. (1972).
Choice between stimuli previously presented separately. Learning and Motivation,
3, 209-222.
vom Saal, W., and vom
Saal, R. (1971). Computer production of punched paper tapes for controlling
experiments. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 3, 319-321.
vom Saal, W., and vom
Saal, R. (1971). A punched paper tape generator with automatic randomization
of user-defined punch sets. Decuscope, 10, 5-7.
vom Saal, W. (1971).
Choice after separate-stimulus training. Paper presented at annual convention
of Eastern Psychological Association.
vom Saal, W., and Jenkins,
H. M. (1970). Blocking the development of stimulus control. Learning and
Motivation, 1, 52-64.
Seraganian, P., and vom
Saal, W. (1969). Blocking the development of stimulus control when stimuli
indicate periods of nonreinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis
of Behavior, 12, 767-772.
vom Saal, W., and Jenkins,
H. M. (1968). Blocking the development of stimulus control in operant discrimination
learning. Paper presented at annual convention of Eastern Psychological Association.
Murdock, B. B., Jr. and
vom Saal, W. (1967). Transpositions in short term memory. Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 74, 137-143.
Winograd, E., and vom
Saal, W. (1966). Discriminability of association value in recognition memory.
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 328-334.