Seeking School Psychology Faculty Searches and Future Opportunities

[Shane Jimerson]

Dear SP Colleagues,

I hope this message finds you well and that you are enjoying a rejuvenating and restorative summer.

Over the years, many of us have noted the numerous faculty searches in school psychology that occur annually across the country. However, it is not always clear whether these positions are ultimately filled during the current academic year, and in some instances, the same positions appear to be reposted or searched again in subsequent years.

If your institution currently has an open search for a school psychology faculty member, or if you anticipate a forthcoming search during the 2026–2027 academic year (both full-time and part-time), I would be grateful if you would let me know. Having a better understanding of current and anticipated opportunities may help facilitate connections across our alumni and professional community.

As many of you will recognize, across the past two decades more than 50 alumni from the UC Santa Barbara School Psychology Program and the Santa Barbara Psychology Internship Consortium (SB-PIC) have gone on to serve as faculty members, scholars, researchers, and leaders at universities throughout the United States and around the world. #ItsWhatWeDo We are tremendously proud of their contributions to the field and their ongoing commitment to advancing research, training, practice, and leadership in school psychology. 

As a reminder, we are fortunate to have highly qualified alumni whose experiences span a broad range of professional, cultural, linguistic, research, experiential, international, and multinational backgrounds. This includes many multilingual school psychologists who have completed the UC Santa Barbara Bilingual School Psychology Certificate, as well as alumni who have emerged from and contributed to a variety of pathways and institutions that advance educational opportunity and excellence, including Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), McNair Scholars programs, Gates Scholars programs, and related initiatives. Collectively, these experiences have prepared our graduates to serve effectively as faculty members, researchers, practitioners, and leaders in diverse educational communities across the United States and around the world, bringing local, national, international, and transnational perspectives to their scholarship, teaching, service, and leadership.

Therefore, if you currently have a faculty position available - or anticipate a forthcoming faculty position opening - I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. (simply email me at Jime...@ucsb.edu with pertinent position details.) I would be pleased to share information regarding these opportunities with highly qualified colleagues and alumni who may be interested.

Thank you for all your ongoing efforts to advance the field, profession, and contribute to the wellbeing of children, families, and communities. I look forward to hearing from you and to continuing our collective efforts to strengthen the future of school psychology.

Wishing each of you all the best.

Sincerely,

Shane

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Shane R. Jimerson, Ph.D., NCSP

Professor

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
2121 ED, Santa Barbara, CA  93106-9490

*I acknowledge UCSB is situated on the Indigenous lands of the Chumash people past, present, and future who hold the memories, traditions, and culture of this area, which has become a place of learning for people from all over the world.

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Editor, Psychology in the Schools, published by Wiley

Editor Emeritus, School Psychology Review, published by NASP

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