{"id":38171,"date":"2025-03-20T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=38171"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:04:30","slug":"mcnair-scholar-raul-segura-accepted-to-howard-university-phd-in-school-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-raul-segura-accepted-to-howard-university-phd-in-school-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair Scholar Ra\u00fal Segura Accepted to Howard University PhD in School Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2025\/03\/Raul-Segura-Howard-University-PhD-in-School-Psychology-Acceptance-2025-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/raul-segura\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"36065\">Ra\u00fal Segura<\/a>! Ra\u00fal has been accepted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gs.howard.edu\/academics\/degree-programs\/school-psychology-phd-program-details\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gs.howard.edu\/academics\/degree-programs\/school-psychology-phd-program-details\">Howard University Doctor of Philosophy in School Psychology<\/a> Program. Howard&#8217;s School of Psychology &#8220;one of only two doctoral school psychology programs at an HBCU or minority serving institution&#8221;. The program &#8220;centers on the psychological practitioner as a: \u201cfacilitator of change, a reflective professional and a scholarly researcher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ra\u00fal Segura<\/strong>\u00a0is a first generation college student and an officer for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mecha.ewu?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D\">MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan)<\/a>, a campus organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. He is an active member of the EWU Tennis Club, and a student employee at EWU\u2019s Student Communication Center, working on student outreach. Ra\u00fal is interested in a School Psychology career. Specifically, he seeks to create an optimal classroom environment for students and teachers of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. For his 2024 McNair Summer Research Internship Ra\u00fal worked alongside his mentor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cpp\/psychology\/contact-us\/\">Dr. Sarah Johansson<\/a>, and presented at the\u00a02024 <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/another-great-summer-of-research-at-mcnair\/\">McNair Summer Research Symposium<\/a>. Further research interests revolve around student teacher relationships in multicultural settings\u00a0and how they can create negative or positive impacts in the classroom, and how to create\u00a0 a culturally safe classroom environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to McNair Scholar Ra\u00fal Segura! Ra\u00fal has been accepted to the Howard University Doctor of Philosophy in School Psychology Program. Howard&#8217;s School of Psychology &#8220;one of only two doctoral school psychology programs at an HBCU or minority serving institution&#8221;. The program &#8220;centers on the psychological practitioner as a: \u201cfacilitator of change, a reflective professional &#8230; <a title=\"McNair Scholar Ra\u00fal Segura Accepted to Howard University PhD in School Psychology\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/mcnair-scholar-raul-segura-accepted-to-howard-university-phd-in-school-psychology\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about McNair Scholar Ra\u00fal Segura Accepted to Howard University PhD in School Psychology\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26138,"featured_media":38173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,805,9,28,31,738,799],"tags":[159,83,759,134,160,475],"class_list":["post-38171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-2024-cohort","category-2024-2025-grad-school-accceptances","category-acceptances-awards","category-news","category-psychology","category-raul-segura","category-school-psychology","tag-acceptances","tag-accepted","tag-dr-sarah-johansson","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-psychology","tag-school-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38175,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions\/38175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}