Dr. Temika Michael Simmons, assistant professor of psychology at Delta State University, will receive the 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award presented by the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS) at its annual conference held Feb. 23-27 in Huntsville, AL.
Members of the CHBGS nominate, review, and award one dissertation and in the Social Sciences biannually in recognition of outstanding research among graduate students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The CHBGS Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis Awards are sponsored by dissertation publishing company, Proquest UMI.
Simmons will discuss her dissertation research entitled, The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program: Examining Relationships and Regressions Among Professional Identity, Career Expectations, and Teaching Efficacy, wherein she developed a reliable scale in measuring relationships and saliency in identity development, teaching efficacy, and career expectations among graduate students.
Simmons joined Delta State’s College of Education faculty in August 2009 and completed her doctoral research at Howard University, Washington, DC, the following December.
