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The ideal participant for SCOPE is a current or recent undergraduate student who identifies with a historically excluded racial/ethnic and is interested in pursuing graduate-level education in psychology or a closely related field. Faculty and graduate student mentors represented at SCOPE include (but are not limited to) individuals from Clinical Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Industrial Organizational Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies, Neuroscience, Social Work, and Applied Behavioral Analysis.
Where?The 2024 SCOPE Program will be held over zoom. Historically, SCOPE has been held both on zoom and in-person at Auburn University's campus.
When?Auburn University’s SCOPE program will be held on a weekend in the Summer of 2024 (June 1st, 2024 from 9am to 5pm CST).
How?The application for SCOPE 2024 is now OPEN!
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The program includes a series of dynamic breakout sessions led by psychology faculty and graduate students. The ratio of participants to breakout leaders is 5 to 1 with the intention of giving participants an individualized experience. After attending this program, participants will continue to work with their mentor to enhance their graduate school applications by learning skills that will increase their likelihood of success in the graduate application process. Such skills include:
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Grants Supporting SCOPE
- APA Early Career Service Grant ($3,000, Fall 2021)
- Loyola University New Orleans Marquette Fellowship ($5,000; Summer 2021)
- American Psychological Foundation Mary Whiton Calkins Grant ($2,000; Summer 2020)
- APAGS Student Diversity Initiative Award ($3,000: Fall 2018)
- Emory University Racial and Cultural Engagement Microgrant ($1,000: Fall 2018)
- Auburn Psychology Department Project Support Grant ($2,000: Spring 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021; $1,000: Fall 2015, 2016, 2017; $500: Summer 2014)
- Auburn Community and Civic Engagement Project Support Grant ($1,500: Spring 2018, 2020, 2021; $1,000: Fall 2015, 2016, Spring 2019)
- Michael Sullivan Diversity Scholarship ($500: Spring 2017)
- SPSSI Grants-In-Aid Program Award ($2,000: Spring 2017)
- Auburn Graduate School Project Support Grant ($1,000: Fall 2015; $2,000: Fall 2016)
- APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs Grant ($1,000: Summer 2014)