Dr. Steven Smith has been elected by the CPA Board of Directors to the position of CPA President and Chair of the Board for the 2025-2026 term. Dr. Smith will bring his extensive experience in connecting psychological science with applied contexts to the role.
Dr. Smith is a Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University (SMU), where he has held a series of progressively senior positions, including the Associate Dean, and subsequently Dean, of Science at SMU. He then served as Associate Vice President Enrolment Management and Acting University Registrar, where he implemented programs focused on student retention and student success. He has significant experience with various boards, and is accustomed to dealing with issues of policy and governance. Dr. Smith is an active researcher, pursuing projects in the areas of health promotion, student success, and forensic psychology.
At the CPA, Dr. Smith has been Chair of the Social and Personality Section, a member in good standing for more than 25 years, and for the past year has sat on the CPA Board of Directors as a Member At Large. As President, he intends to work toward enhancing the success of undergraduate students, in particular “supporting the integration of student success content into introductory psychology courses”.
We offer Dr. Smith our heartfelt congratulations, and we look forward to working with him even more closely in the year to come.