Deuling Service

The mission of Roosevelt University is reflected and supported by the service experiences I have had. As a general rule, I seek impactful opportunities that will involve creation of new programs and managing change, support diversity in academia, and promote social justice. Below I describe my more impactful service to Roosevelt University, our students, and my discipline. I do not detail service that is more of a routine participation as I don’t consider that impactful but simply expected. I do participate in these activities, however, and am happy to expand on these experiences if necessary.

Service to Shared Governance at University, College, and Departmental Levels

I arrived at Roosevelt University from a traditional research university to help create the first PhD program in the history of Roosevelt University. Though I was not hired to be the program director of the PhD program, my contribution to this endeavor includes many leading and supporting tasks ranging from recruitment, matriculation of students through milestones, teaching a wide variety of PhD-level courses, providing students with applied experiences in the field, and serving as reference for students’ internships and jobs. I will spotlight the impact of just one role I have played in the creation of the PhD program.

My contribution to the recruitment of students includes creating a battery of questions used to interview potential graduate students, participating in the recruitment of students through interviews and meetings, and in my role as President of Chicago Industrial Organizational Psychologists. From these positions and tasks I help attract and select students that would not likely get a chance to become an I/O Psychologist at a traditional research intensive university like the one I came from. After 6 years of having the PhD program in I/O Psychology, I can honestly say we have some of the most diverse students in the US. Beyond having been my students, our first PhD student, Ben Sher, is an ordained Rabbi and our second PhD student, Ayesha Jamaspi, came to RU from India. The 41 PhD students that have enrolled in the program include the widest range of sexual identities, ages, ethnic identities, and socioeconomic backgrounds I have seen in a PhD program. In fact, one current PhD student was advised to apply to our program because he would be considered “too old” to be accepted anywhere else. Social justice is reflected in the recruitment and selection of the amazing students we have in the PhD program. I am confident that I played a role in the diversity found amongst our students and in building an inclusive culture that our students thrive in.  

Beyond my contributions to the PhD program, I have served as program director for the I/O Psychology MA program for 2 years. This service was during the transition from having the I/O MA program in Schaumburg and Chicago, to having all I/O faculty moved to Chicago and having just one MA program in Chicago. This location transition was unexpected as was my taking on the program director role (due to faculty departure in the summer). On a personal note, during the time of my directorship I had my first child who had severe complications at birth that included an extended stay in the NICU and numerous resulting health issues. Regardless, for 2 years I managed all recruitment activities, enrollment decisions, curriculum and schedule changes, monitoring of student progress, graduation audits, and student program-related decisions on my own. In my time as director, we had an increase in both quality and quantity of applications to the program.

Currently, I serve as Chair of the Global Diversity & Inclusion (GD&I) task force. This multidisciplinary committee is charged by President Malekzadeh with creating the blueprint for a potential GD&I center and most recently, curriculum for an Executive Certification program. The task force has been a great intellectual exercise that is finally seeing some returns on investment. So far I have led the committee in the creation of questions to be asked in focus groups of local GD&I professionals and in follow-up telephone interviews, conducted a comprehensive audit of competitive certification programs, creation of 6 unique modules based on interdisciplinary research, and coordinated a meeting of industry professionals who serve as our advisory committee. Our status as of August 1, 2018 is finalizing our content and meeting with the advisory board to ensure our modules will be effective in helping C-suite executives understand the issues and needs of GD&I in their organizations. The certification will be announced and officially launched at the American Dream Conference with a reception on September 11, 2018. This program will serve as a revenue stream for the university and hopefully, be the inaugural product for a future Center for Global Diversity & Inclusion.

Below is a list of service to the Roosevelt University community.

Role	Title	Committee or Task
Leading	Chair	Global Diversity and Inclusion Task Force
Leading	Faculty	PhD in I/O Psychology Program
Leading	Lead	Creation of Disabilities Studies BA program (on hold)
Leading	Creator/Faculty Mentor	RU ConnectI/Ons, RU I/O Newsletter for alumni and students
Leading	Project Consultant	Mansfield Institute for Social Justice & Transformation
Supporting	Chair	Search Committee, I/O MA Director
Supporting	Member	Retention Committee, College of Arts and Sciences
Supporting	Instructor	ACP 101: Freshman Seminar
Supporting	Faculty Advisor	Roosevelt Industrial/Organizational Psychology Association (RIOPA) student organization
Supporting	Faculty Mentor	McNair Scholar’s Program
Supporting	Presenter	Sparling Lecture
Supporting	Presenter	Doctoral Consortium, Midwestern Academy of Mgmt
Supporting	CAS-Psych	Community College Liaison for Schaumburg  campus
Routine	Member	Budget & Finance Committee (starting Fall, 2018)
Routine	Member	I/O MA Committee
Routine	Member	I/O PhD Committee
Routine	Member	Course Release Task Force
Routine	Member	Dept. Meetings
Routine	Member	Commencement & Convocation

Service to Profession

In an effort to get the RU brand out, start building the necessary relationships our students will need to succeed, and have a way to create programs that support my values, I joined and became President of the Chicago Industrial/Organizational Psychologists (CIOP). The network and relationships built with alumni through this service leadership has been invaluable to the program and students in I/O Psychology.

When I became President of CIOP in 2011, I was handed the checkbook and a bill for the lawyer’s fees to submit our annual report to the state. Unfortunately, the bill was larger than the amount of money in the checking account. In my time as President, we have gone from $50 and no actual dues paying members to over $5,000 and over 100 dues paying members. Our LinkedIn account has a reach of over 1,600 I/O psychologists from around the world and our CIOP.net site has over 500 people that have signed up and attended one of our events. The group has become valuable enough that for the first time, we have had to interview for board members and reject over half of the candidates to keep the board size manageable. We have gone from unstructured and unpredictable meetings at local bars to 5 meetings a year with predictability in events and timing. Specifically, our annual events include a networking event at The Drake Hotel, the Veteran’s Resume Workshop, Pro’s and Con’s Debate on a hot topic in I/O Psychology, a Day in the Life of an I/O job shadowing event, and the Consulting Challenge. Of these events, I will discuss the Consulting Challenge in more detail.

To create a mechanism for students to more fully experience the scientist-practitioner model, I created and manage the CIOP Consulting Challenge. Starting in 2015, the event is a competition for end-of-2^nd year graduate students in I/O Psychology to create a solution for a real-world organizational problem. Graduate students nationwide in both I/O MA and PhD graduate programs sign up for the challenge and are randomly assigned to teams (with the stipulation that students from the same schools are NOT on the same teams). These teams are given the request for proposal (RFP) from the host organization and have 2 days to create a solution with deliverables in both a written and presentation format.  Judges, consisting of the host organizations’ subject matter experts (SMEs), area consultants, and academics provide extensive developmental feedback and choose which team has presented the best solution to the organization’s RFP. The winning team members get a guaranteed interview for an internship or $200. In 2018, I linked this event with the SIOP conference in Chicago to increase exposure and lower travel costs for students.

Sponsoring organizations have included Sears, United Airlines, Walgreens, and the CTA. Some of the Universities represented in previous Consulting Challenges come from Bowling Green State University, Claremont Graduate University, California State University-San Bernardino, Fairfield University, Hofstra U, Illinois Institute of Technology, Missouri State, Missouri U of Science & Tech, Roosevelt University, Teachers College - Columbia U, University of Central Florida, University of Guelph, and Wayne State University.

The consulting challenge has many benefits for graduate students, seasoned professionals, and host organizations. Graduate students get real-world experience with helping an area organization manage their people-related concerns using tools and applications from the I/O realm. Seasoned professionals serve as judges to these teams and may gain a few innovative ideas. The local host organization gains access to the best talent graduate programs have to offer with innovative ideas to address their own personalized situation. Plus, the organization gains exposure as a great place to work for I/O psychologists, good will for providing support to the local professional organization (CIOP), and exposure at colleges and universities with programs in I/O Psychology.

 

The benefits to RU students are many. RU students have been part of winning teams, earning internships and jobs at the host organizations, have a real-life experience to add to their resume, gained friendships and professional networks that will last for years, and have a better understanding of how their education compares to other universities. My spearheading of the event gains credibility for the RU I/O Programs that can be seen in the quality of students we have attracted since my tenure here. In fact, as President of CIOP, I have served as the go to contact for future students, venture capitalists seeking knowledge about I/O Psychology, media and television production professionals seeking participants for future shows, etc. For more information specifically about the consulting challenge or CIOP, visit our website at http://www.ciop.net.

Below are a few more traditional services I have provided to the profession.

Role	Title	Committee or Task
Leading	President	Chicago Industrial Organizational Psychologists
Leading	Editorial Board	Journal of Business and Psychology
Supporting	Member, Visibility Committee	Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology
Supporting	Volunteer, Program Committee	Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology
Routine	Ad hoc Reviewer	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
		Journal of Organizational Behavior
		Applied Psychology: An International Review
		The Leadership Quarterly
		Human Relations
		Personality and Individual Differences
		European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
		Journal of Applied Social Psychology
		Stress & Health
		Human Resource Development Review
		Learning and Individual Differences
		British Journal of Management
		British Journal of Experimental Psychology
		Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology Conference
		Academy of Management Conference
		American Psychological Association Conference