Article archive / October 2018
Originally published: . Volume 9, No. 10. Source pages: 1, 9.
Psychologists aiming to reboot the well- respected, regional journal, from the 1980s, The Southern Psychologist, are planning a December launch, said Dr. Bill McCown, co- editor and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Business and Social Sciences at the University of Louisiana– Monroe (ULM).
McCown is a Co-Editor along with Drs. MKay Bonner and Burt Ashworth, also with University of Louisiana at Monroe. The working title is Contemporary Southern Psychologist.
“The journal is coming along as scheduled,” said McCown. “We are now getting funded from Burt Ashworth's endowed chair in Gerontology. That means that the first issue has to primarily be dedicated to–well–gerontology! But we have six articles as well as an introduction to the direction of the journal. Most are empirically-based, which is exciting.”
“We are aiming for a release of around December 1,” said McCown, who is the 2018 Louisiana Psychological Association’s Distinguished Psychologist, and also Coordinator of the Psychology Department at ULM. “Our University has actually purchased software for the journal…,” he said. “While not quite turn-key, it is pretty close.”
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