Graduate Association of School Psychologists

GASP is the Graduate Association of School Psychology, and its purpose is to facilitate professional development and fellowship for graduate students in school psychology. GASP strives to pursue community outreach programs specifically related to school psychology and to encourage academic excellence. Baylor currently has GASP programs on both the Dallas and Waco campus, and together they collaborate and work to achieve these goals. GASP holds meetings once a month and participates in at least one community service and one professional development event once a semester. Both EdS and PhD students participate!

EVENTS

GASP students enjoy volunteering at local events for the special needs community. In Waco, GASP students help with the Treats-to-Trunk event each October, a drive-through, sensory-friendly trick-or-treating event. Baylor students get to don their Halloween costumes and hand out candy to the children in attendance.

CONFERENCES

GASP members attend the anual conference for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and often earn the distinction of giving research presentations. Graduate students attend with their respective cohorts and then meet Baylor alumni and other school psychologists from all across the country.

GASP OFFICERS

Waco
President: Titus Moten
Vice President: Rachel Pask
Secretary: Alyssa Conyers
Treasurer: Yasmin Rojas

Dallas
President: Mia Banks
Vice President: Jen Harman
Secretary: Alex Jones
Treasurer: Eamon Stewart

IN THE NEWS

Heena Panjwani, EdS candidate, (pictured) received a Minority Scholarship Program Award at the 2022 NASP conference. As part of the award, NASP financed her attendance at the conference in Boston.

Eamon Stewart of the Dallas cohort is newsletter editor of the Texas Association of School Psychologists (TASP).

Nori Ryland, a PhD candidate in Waco, is a founding representative for GASP for Baylor’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) and represents the organization as a voting member to serve school psychology graduate students best interests. She also is a graduate student leader through NASP and helped found a Student Affiliates of School Psychology charter at Baylor from APA’s Division 16: School Psychology.