Kerrie Jenkins – Graduate Program Coordinator

Email Kerrie; Work From Home on Thursdays.

  • Graduate Admissions:
    • Processes graduate applications.
    • Assign faculty reviewers to student applications.
    • Processes ETS documents and transcripts.
    • Present at Open Houses for prospective graduate students.
    • Responds to all graduate program inquiries for the Applied Developmental Psychology Ph.D., Human Services Psychology Ph.D., and Applied Behavior Analysis M.A. programs.
  • Event Coordinator:
      • Graduate Student Interview Week
      • Graduate Student Orientation
      • Graduate program events
      • Distinguished Lecture
      • Eminent Scholar-Mentor Lectures
      • Psychology department events
  • Graduate Student Progressions:
    • Meet with graduate students to discuss forms and progressions throughout candidacy.
      • Advise students on the course waiver process, thesis and dissertation defenses, applying to candidacy and graduation.
      • Manages forms on DocuSign for Master’s and Doctoral progressions.
      • Maintains the database of student files, both paper and electronic formats.
      • Submit forms to UMBC’s Graduate School.
  • Backup supervisor for front desk student workers and time sheet approval.
  • Program support for Human Services Psychology / Applied Developmental Psychology / and Applied Behavior Analysis.
  • Manages graduate student databases and listservs.
  • Graduate program Blackboard / Box file management.
  • Room reservations for department controlled and university spaces using 25Live.
  • Process graduate student conference and travel applications on DocuSign.
  • Collect and file Teaching Assistant and Annual Student Evaluations.
  • GSS, NSF, and NIH annual surveys and reports.
  • APA accreditation and reporting support.
  • Process requests for proof of malpractice insurance coverage for Clinical Psychology students.
  • Complete enrollment and degree verification for accrediting agencies.
  • Content creation and management for the UMBC Psychology department website, Rise Vision, and department LinkedIn page.