Over the last 15 or so years, while I have remained active in research, my work became more administrative and the time dedicated to administration grew while my laboratory time diminished. I first was chosen for the job of Director of Clinical Training at USM. The DCT is the person charged with keeping our nationally accredited doctoral program in clinical psychology nationally accredited and current with the leading issues in the field. I was DCT through two national re-accreditation site visits and self-study processes.  Then I was made Director of the Psychology Clinic at USM. The Psychology Clinic was the on-campus training clinic which permitted our on-campus clinical psychology faculty to supervise our students under our own eyes and ears. While Director, I coordinated the set up and implementation of our first ever fully computerized patient "medical records" system which permitted us to keep all of our records on a networked system inside the clinic and move to a more paperless environment. I continued that job until I decided to retire from USM due to the institutional problems that were ongoing at that point in time, and was hired to be the Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. LSUS is a small 6 year university with approximately 4500 undergraduates. The psychology department has approximately 250 majors. The faculty is 11 full time, tenure-track faculty, and the department supports two graduate degree programs... one in school psychology, and one in counseling psychology. While I will always consider myself a researcher first and remain active in research, and a clinical psychologist second, I am afraid that I have also become a full time administrator. 

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