Mission statement
Mission
- Contribute to knowledge about human development through research
and related scholarly activities;
- Promote the welfare and optimal development of children and
youth from all cultural backgrounds in the context of family,
school, and community settings;
- Contribute to the advancement of human
development as an interdisciplinary, basic, and
applied science.
Priorities
- Prepare graduate students for leadership in research and
teaching roles in child psychology as well as in professional roles
in school psychology and child clinical psychology;
- Contribute to the development of undergraduate
students who will be well-prepared to pursue
professional careers and graduate education in
specialties of psychology and other disciplines;
- Collaborate within and outside the University in
"giving away" child development and in
fostering an appreciation of the role that
knowledge of human development can play in
solving educational and social problems.
About the
Institute
(history and scope)
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