Inclusive Excellence

Culture and cultural context are central to understanding human behavior. A deep understanding of culture and context is required to conduct meaningful research, develop relevant interventions, provide accurate and effective psychological services, and carry out inclusive teaching and mentoring activities. The very survival of the profession requires that psychologists broaden our ability to take culture and context into account in all of our professional activities.

Our department has a committee whose goal and purpose is to improve inclusive excellence to better support academic success and individual readiness for post-graduation endeavors and create a more engaged community. Our students, faculty, and staff have unique differences which brings to the collective an access to diverse veiwpoints that benefits us all. The USU Psychology Department is committed to engaging in a psychology that is relevant to everyone, both now and in the future, through thoughtful training and mentoring of the next generation of psychologists.

The department would like to acknowledge that all USU courses are taught on the traditional lands of the Diné, Goshute, Paiute, Shoshone, and Ute Peoples past and present, and honor the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations.