Committee on Diversity Affairs (CODA)
Mission
To promote and foster an academic community that celebrates and supports diversity in multiple areas of departmental life.
Goals
- Provide support, networking opportunities and mentoring to students of diverse backgrounds
- Increase and support culturally sensitive research on diversity topics
- Promote the inclusion of diversity throughout our curriculum
- Give students experiential learning opportunities that address diversity issues
Sponsored Activities
- Colloquia/Invited Speakers
- Brown Bag Discussions
- Student/Faculty Receptions
- Graduate Student Professional Development
- Diversity-related Course Development
Contact us
- Facebook: facebook.com/LoyolaCODA
- Email: CODALoyola@gmail.com
Resources
- Psychology Courses Related to Diversity
- Grants and Fellowships to Support Diversity-Related Work
- Department of Psychology Statement on Diversity
CODA Affiliated Psychology Research Labs
- Colleen Conley: understanding the role of gender and sexual orientation in experiences of adaptive and maladaptive adjustment across developmental transitions; developing wellness-promoting interventions that can particularly help academically and socially at-risk youth and emerging adults, including first-generation, low-income, and students of color.
- Perla Gamez: language development; bilingual and second language learning; connection between language and literacy; classroom talk; language input; syntactic priming
- Grayson Holmbeck: psychosocial adjustment, family relationships, health-related self-management, and the transition to adult health care in youth with spina bifida, the most common disabling birth defect of the central nervous system.
- Jeffrey Huntsinger: the cognitive consequences of affective feelings; how moods and emotions influence stereotyping and prejudice
- Christine P. Li-Grining: self-regulation and academic skills among low-income, ethnic minority
- Robyn Mallett: psychology of prejudice and intergroup relations, investigating how people understand and control the world around them through individual and collective action.
- Zoe Smith: The Advancing Community-Centered Interventions (ACCTION) Lab focuses on healing, liberation, and community centered, culturally responsive assessments and interventions for Black and Latina/e/o adolescents. We use community based participatory research methods to learn from the families we serve.
- Susan Wilson: Understanding how racial/ethnic socialization, racial/ethnic identity, cross-ethnic peer relationships, and psychological adjustment are related.
Mission
To promote and foster an academic community that celebrates and supports diversity in multiple areas of departmental life.
Goals
- Provide support, networking opportunities and mentoring to students of diverse backgrounds
- Increase and support culturally sensitive research on diversity topics
- Promote the inclusion of diversity throughout our curriculum
- Give students experiential learning opportunities that address diversity issues
Sponsored Activities
- Colloquia/Invited Speakers
- Brown Bag Discussions
- Student/Faculty Receptions
- Graduate Student Professional Development
- Diversity-related Course Development
Contact us
- Facebook: facebook.com/LoyolaCODA
- Email: CODALoyola@gmail.com
Resources
- Psychology Courses Related to Diversity
- Grants and Fellowships to Support Diversity-Related Work
- Department of Psychology Statement on Diversity
CODA Affiliated Psychology Research Labs
- Colleen Conley: understanding the role of gender and sexual orientation in experiences of adaptive and maladaptive adjustment across developmental transitions; developing wellness-promoting interventions that can particularly help academically and socially at-risk youth and emerging adults, including first-generation, low-income, and students of color.
- Perla Gamez: language development; bilingual and second language learning; connection between language and literacy; classroom talk; language input; syntactic priming
- Grayson Holmbeck: psychosocial adjustment, family relationships, health-related self-management, and the transition to adult health care in youth with spina bifida, the most common disabling birth defect of the central nervous system.
- Jeffrey Huntsinger: the cognitive consequences of affective feelings; how moods and emotions influence stereotyping and prejudice
- Christine P. Li-Grining: self-regulation and academic skills among low-income, ethnic minority
- Robyn Mallett: psychology of prejudice and intergroup relations, investigating how people understand and control the world around them through individual and collective action.
- Zoe Smith: The Advancing Community-Centered Interventions (ACCTION) Lab focuses on healing, liberation, and community centered, culturally responsive assessments and interventions for Black and Latina/e/o adolescents. We use community based participatory research methods to learn from the families we serve.
- Susan Wilson: Understanding how racial/ethnic socialization, racial/ethnic identity, cross-ethnic peer relationships, and psychological adjustment are related.