{"id":127792,"date":"2024-11-18T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/?p=127792"},"modified":"2024-11-19T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:44:45","slug":"interim-dean-vincent-c-alfonso-selected-president-of-the-trainers-of-school-psychologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/2024\/11\/18\/interim-dean-vincent-c-alfonso-selected-president-of-the-trainers-of-school-psychologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Dean Vincent C. Alfonso Selected President of the Trainers of School Psychologists"},"content":{"rendered":"

With more than 30 years of professional experience as a psychologist, consultant, educator, and academic officer, <\/span>Interim Dean Vincent C. Alfonso<\/span><\/a> has been selected as President of the <\/span>Trainers of School Psychologists (TSP)<\/span><\/a> for the 2024-2025 academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n

As President of TSP, Alfonso will work to address the shortage of school psychologists nationwide who provide critical support to children and families in New Jersey and beyond.<\/p>\n

TSP directly supports the education and professional development of faculty who prepare and foster future school psychologists at higher education institutions across the U.S.<\/p>\n

Alfonso will lead a board of 17 members to plan and execute TSP\u2019s resources and offerings, including an annual conference, a research journal, and low-cost professional development opportunities for members.<\/p>\n

About the Trainers of School Psychologists<\/h3>\n

Trainers of School Psychologists (TSP) is comprised of faculty around the United States who teach in school psychology programs at the certificate and doctorate levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

TSP is \u201ccommitted to innovation and excellence in graduate training programs for specialist and doctoral school psychologists,\u201d and their purpose is to \u201cfoster high-quality training in school psychology programs.\u201d The organization will host its next annual conference at <\/span>Seattle University<\/span><\/a> in February 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alfonso\u2019s experience as a psychologist in school districts and mental health centers in the New York metropolitan area included counseling, conducting psychoeducational evaluations, parent and teacher consultations, and clinical research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before joining CEEL, Alfonso dedicated 19 years to academic leadership and administration at <\/span>Fordham University<\/span><\/a> in New York City. He served as program director for the School Psychology (Ph.D.) program and executive director of two assessment centers. Additionally, he contributed to the <\/span>Graduate School of Education<\/span><\/a> and the broader university community as a professor of school psychology, as well as six years as an associate dean and one year as the acting dean.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alfonso holds a PhD and master\u2019s in Clinical\/School Psychology from <\/span>Hofstra University<\/span><\/a>, and is a former dean and professor at the <\/span>School of Education at Gonzaga University<\/span><\/a> in Spokane, Washington. He also served as Interim Dean at the <\/span>Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University<\/span><\/a> in Bronx, New York, where he was responsible for creating faculty governance and structure, working with program chairs to develop academic policies, and maintaining budget oversight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After his tenure as President, he will continue to support TSP as \u201cPast President\u201d for the 2025-2026 academic year, followed by an \u201cAdvisor\u201d role for the three years following.<\/span><\/p>\n

School Psychology Initiatives at Montclair State University<\/h3>\n

Alfonso hopes to launch a doctoral program (PsyD) in school psychology within CEEL in Fall 2026. Recently, Montclair approved a faculty line to support this academic initiative. If the launch takes place, this would be the third PsyD program offered in New Jersey and the twenty-first in the United States. The program would support students pursuing a practitioner role in various settings, including PK-12 education.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be named President of TSP, an organization I deeply admire. In addition, I look forward to expanding educational and training opportunities for future school psychologists within the College for Education and Engaged Learning at Montclair State University,\u201d says Alfonso.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Story by Social Media and Communications Coordinator\u00a0Lauren Conforti\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With more than 30 years of professional experience as a psychologist, consultant, educator, and academic officer, Interim Dean Vincent C. Alfonso has been selected as President of the Trainers of School Psychologists (TSP) for the 2024-2025 academic year. As President of TSP, Alfonso will work to address the shortage of school psychologists nationwide who provide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":127799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,11,20,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19_announcements","category-23_college-news-and-events","category-24_college-spotlight","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-spotlights","category-teacher-education","category-teacher-education-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127792"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127940,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127792\/revisions\/127940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}