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Home  »  Faculty and Staff  »  Dean's Staff  »  Dr. Palmerino's Bio

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Claire Palmerino graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach where she also earned a master’s degree. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1979, after which she began teaching in the Psychology Department at Cal State Fullerton. The emphasis of her graduate studies was experimental psychology. This equipped her well to teach statistics, research methods, learning and memory and a variety of other courses in the department. Psychology of Women was one of her favorite courses to teach.

In 1993 she began working with undergraduates who were planning to become elementary teachers. Recognizing the gap in advising between general education, major, subject matter preparation and the credential program, she began lobbying for a comprehensive approach to advising this student population. In 1998 she became the founding director for the Center for Careers in Teaching (CCT) at Cal State Fullerton. Since that time, the CCT has become a model in the CSU system. In 2001, she began working at the CSU system level to establish collaborative partnerships with other CSU campuses with regard to the lower division subject matter requirements for elementary teachers. This pioneering work led to the very first statewide agreements between CSU campuses for lower division preparation and has since become the model for other academic majors. During this time, she also became the director for the Academic Advising Center, where she continued to strive for comprehensive advising that showed students how to efficiently select classes so as to meet multiple requirements with the same classes. Her work as a leader in campus-to-campus collaboration, as well as in the area of student advising, was recognized in 2003 when she won the coveted system wide Wang Award in the category of administration.

She returned to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in January of this year in the position of Associate Dean of Administration. She looks forward to serving the college and assisting the faculty in this new role.