b'WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE 7Yesterday, Today, TomorrowWHATS DIFFERENT ABOUT USAT 50 YEARS?circle-caret-left (L to R) President Nicholas A. Covino, PsyD, Vice President for Workforce Initiatives and Specialty Training, Gemima St. Louis, PhD, and Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, Daniel Tierney.several graduate students from MassachusettsSeminars (the precursor to todays Clinical School of Professional Psychology in theirSeminars) in concert with Dr. Robert field placement. They were taking a chanceKegans developmental theory course prior to on an institution that had not yet beenassuming leadership of the program.accredited, recalls Beck who was amazed byStudents were in the field from day one, the extraordinary students he met, all keensays Beck, pointing to active collaboration on pursuing doctoral training outside of awith field supervisors as seminal in helping traditional PhD program.to cultivate clinical skills, human awareness, The integration of teaching, mentoring,and professional excellence. He counts his and cultivating professional readiness inown clinical career in private practice, which clinical psychology and clinical practicehe maintained throughout his tenure and was the absolute essence of what we aimedmodeled in the classroom, as a linchpin for to createand effectively taughtfrom theeducating future practitioners.beginning, says Beck, who joined the facultyThe teaching model integrating self-in 1980. He began teaching Integrativeawareness, clinical knowledge, and a'