ABSTRACT
Graduate education is and continues to be the life support system of a professional discipline like psychology. It is psychologists’ pleasure to welcome all of graduate students to the National Conference on Graduate Education in Psychology. This is, as graduate students all know, the first national conference to focus on all areas of graduate education in psychology since the Miami Conference in 1958. Although there have been conferences at Chicago and Vail during this time, these addressed particular areas of graduate education. In particular, Joan Provost and Claire Turner of the Conference Division of the Continuing Education Center were most instrumental in making the excellent arrangements for this conference. Given the many changes in the discipline of psychology and in the marketplace for psychologists, it is timely, indeed, for psychologists to address the many issues of graduate education in psychology, issues that cut across all the subdisciplines that make up psychologists diverse and ever-expanding field.
