Carol
Winters-Smith
, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Department:
Psychology
Location:
North House
4
Degrees
BA, MS, PhD, University of Miami
Contact
Phone: 413.565.1203
Fax: 413.565.1165
Email: cwinters@baypath.edu
Profile
Carol Winters-Smith, PhD has served as professor of psychology at Bay Path College for 19 years. During her tenure, she has taught introduction to psychology, child development, physiological psychology, psychology of women, behavioral research methods, health psychology, and social psychology, among other courses.
Dr. Winters-Smith served as chair of the department of psychology for 14 years, including the years of expansion resulting in the One-Day-A-Week Saturday College, followed by the establishment of Bay Path’s Central Massachusetts Campus in Sturbridge/Charlton, MA. Winters-Smith has taught the honors section of introduction to psychology for many years, and she started the first Bay Path Psychology Club in 1994. The Psychology Club eventually resulted in procuring a charter for a Psi Chi Chapter, the National Honor Society of Psychology, in 2004. She served as advisor to the Bay Path Psi Chi Chapter until 2007.
A pioneer in her field, Winters-Smith introduced outcomes assessment to Bay Path in 1993, requiring all psychology majors to complete a reflective portfolio evaluating their accomplishment of departmental objectives. This model was presented at the 1995 meeting of the New England Psychological Association, and it has been routinely modified to accommodate the recommendations of the American Psychological Association, including the latest Competency Benchmarks suggested in 2007.
Winters-Smith received her doctorate in applied developmental psychology from the University of Miami in 1984. While at the University of Miami, she worked with high-risk infants and studied mother and infant interactions at the Mailman Center for Child Development. She also earned her master of science in physiological psychology from the University of Miami, studying the effects of electrical stimulation of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus and changes in catecholamine levels. After graduate school, she provided prenatal and child development education to Mexican-American migrants in Homestead, FL as part of Fair Start, a project supervised by the High Scope Foundation and funded by the Ford Foundation.
