VITA

RANDALL M. POTTER


Home Address: 176 South 7th Avenue
Clarion, PA 16214 Phone: (814) 226-5205

Office Address: Department of Psychology
Clarion University of PA
Clarion, PA 16214 Phone: (814) 226-2295

e-mail: rpotter@mail.clarion.edu

Web Home:HTTP://psy1.clarion.edu/rp/homeremedy.html

Last updated: January 10, 2002


Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1980.

M.A. in Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1977.

A.B. University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan, 1972,
Major: Psychology, Minor: History.

Teaching Experience
Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor to Professor, August 1981 to Present. Tenured 1986.

Northern Michigan University, Instructor to Assistant Professor, January 1980 to June 1981.

Miami University, Instructor, Summer 1979.

Administrative Experience

Acting Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs (August 1990 June 1991) Responsibilities: Advise the Provost and Academic Vice President on a wide range of issues, including budget, faculty professional development, faculty evaluation, and academic program development; represent the university on the SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council; develop and administer summer school schedule, consult with deans and department chairs regarding courses to be offered, prepare and issue contracts for guaranteed and contingency courses; represent the university administration on the campus curriculum committee, review all proposals for curricular change and make recommendations to the provost and president; oversee and administer the Division of Academic Support Services (E.O.P./Act 101, Upward Bound, Student Support Services, and the Tutoring Center) evaluate departmental faculty, develop and oversee divisional budget. Oversee the Office of International Programs and supervise staff. Oversee the Honors Program.

Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs (August 1988 - August 1990) Responsibilities: Advise the Provost and Academic Vice President on a wide range of issues, including budget, faculty professional development, faculty evaluation, and academic program development; represent the university on the SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council; develop and administer summer school schedule, consult with deans and department chairs regarding courses to be offered, prepare and issue contracts for guaranteed and contingency courses; represent the university administration on the campus curriculum committee, review all proposals for curricular change and make recommendations to the provost and president. Direct the university honors program

Honors Program Director (January 1988 - December 1992) Responsibilities: Identify and recruit students into the university Honors Program, develop and manage the program budget, solicit proposals for honors courses and assist faculty in developing such proposals, identify appropriate scholarship support for honors students and make recommendations to the university foundation regarding the awarding of Honors Scholarships, oversee the preparations for the university honors convocation, provide academic advisement to honors students.

Professional Affiliations
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Psychological Association
Animal Behavior Society
Midwestern Psychological Association
Associate Member, Sigma XI: The Scientific Research Society


Publications
Slattery, J.M. and Potter, R.M. (1985) Hyperphagia: A Necessary Precondition to Obesity? Appetite , Vol. 6(2), 133-142.

Potter, R.M. , and Nicholls, R.J. (1983) Using the Byte Back BB-1 and the ZX 81 as a control device. Sync., Vol. 2(2), 12-13.

Nicholls, R.J., and Potter, R.M. (1982) An inexpensive computer and interface for research in the behavioral sciences.Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation. Vol. 14(6), 532-533.

Capretta, P.J., Farentinos, R.C., Littlefield, V.M., and Potter, R.M. (1980) Feeding preferences of captive tassel-eared squirrel. (Sciurus aberti ). Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 61(4), 734-737.

Papers and Presentations
Slattery, J.M. and Potter, R.M. Because it was there: rationales given for subject choice by A.B.S. members. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Covington, KY, June 1989.<

Slattery, J.M. and Potter, R.M. Species non identification as a tool to understand the growth of comparative psychology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Chieron: The International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Kingston, Ontario, June 1989.

Kranz, P.L., Forbes, T., Johnson, J., Potter, R.M., Culbertson, J. and Zanich, M.L. Strategies for Guiding and Motivating the Undergraduate Psychology Student. Symposium presented at the 55th annual Pennsylvania Psychological Association convention, Lancaster, PA, June 1988.

Slattery, J.M., Potter, R.M. and Vogan, C. Discipline differences in subject choice by ABS members. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Williamstown, MA, June, 1987.

Slattery, J.M., and Potter, R.M. On the behavior of organisms: albino rats as a model for psychological research (1888 - 1935). Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL., May 1987.

Slattery, J.M. and Potter, R.M. Of white rats and early psychologists. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 1985.

Potter, R.M., and McNairy, F. Research Summary: GS 110 - The Student in the University. Prepared for in house distribution, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, February 1985.

Potter, R.M., and McNairy, F. Research Summary: GS 110 - The Student in the University. Prepared for in house distribution, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, February 1984.

Potter, R.M. and Slattery, J.M. Overconsumption of calories as a precondition to obesity: a reconsideration. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Lewisburg, PA June, 1983.

Potter, R.M.,, Slattery, J.M., and Capretta, P.J. Reduction of normal food intake with body weight maintenance after undernutrition. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Duluth, MN, August, 1982.

Potter, R.M., Modification of a "natural" aversion to cannibalism in inbred mice. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Knoxville, TN, June, 1981.

Potter, R.M., and Cooper, A.J. Effects of olfactory bulbectomy on the social behavior of albino rats. Presented at the annual meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Detroit, MI, March, 1980.

Potter, R.M., Littlefield, V.M., Capretta, P.J., and Farentinos, R.C. Chemical basis of inner bark preference in Abert squirrels (Sciurus aberti ). Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, New Orleans, LA, June, 1979.

Potter, R.M., Capretta, P.J., Cooper, A.J., and Littlefield, V.M. Aversions to novel foods as a function of early food cue experience. Presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August, 1978.

Potter, R.M., Capretta, P.J., and Farentinos, R.C. Inner bark and cone feeding in the Abert squirrel. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Seattle, WA, June, 1978.

Potter, R.M., and Capretta, P.J., The appropriateness of reinforcement to cue in the conditioning of flavor aversions in rats. Presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Boulder, CO, June, 1976.

Summary of Teaching Experience
Courses Taught

 General Psychology
Statistical Methods
History and Systems
Comparative Psychology
Senior Seminar
Human Sexuality
Child Psychology
Sensation and Perception
Honors Social Science
Honors Junior Seminar
Personality