For Immediate Release
Sylvia Williams, Director of Communications
Fielding Graduate University
2112 Santa Barbara Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805.898.2947
sawilliams@fielding.edu

Santa Barbara, CA (August 6, 2007) ..."Erik Gregory, PhD, has been appointed assistant director of the Media Psychology Program at Fielding Graduate University," announced Director Bernie Luskin. "Gregory will also serve as director of the master's degree programs. He will continue in his faculty role as well as taking on administrative duties in this burgeoning program," Luskin said.

Gregory earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has lectured internationally on the subjects of creativity, media and culture, and education. Gregory is also a clinical associate in Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry in Boston, Massachusetts. Gregory has worked on media-related children's programs such as "Bob the Builder" and studies digital gaming and virtual reality and narrative media.

"I am delighted with this appointment," Gregory commented. "I have found that the media psychology students at Fielding are quality students. They bring with them personal and professional life experience, making them capable students, teachers, and scholar-practitioners."

Fielding's innovative Media Psychology Program is the first PhD program in media psychology in the United States. The new PhD program honored its first graduates July 2007.

Fielding Graduate University is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, where it was founded in 1974. It is a world-recognized leader in graduate education, having created one of the first and most successful distributed learning models for mid-career adults. Fielding is an accredited, nonprofit graduate university offering programs within three schools: Psychology, Human & Organization Development, and Educational Leadership & Change. The Fielding community is dedicated to lifelong learning; social justice and change; and innovation in organizations, communities, and society. For more information, visit www.fielding.edu.