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Dr. Julie Madden, shown in her Advanced Seminar for Psychological Processes class, joined the UTC faculty in 2019. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ask Dr. Julie Madden if she\u2019s student-centric and you\u2019ll get no argument from her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely. I mean, we\u2019re here for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madden, an associate lecturer in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Psychology, remembers what it was like to be a student\u2014particularly an undergraduate. The student experience gave her a feeling of community that she brings to the classroom as a faculty member.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experiences are different. Not everybody started out not knowing what they wanted to do. I was a person who was interested in a lot of things but didn\u2019t know what direction to go,\u201d said Madden, who joined the UTC faculty in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to college from a different route. I was training to be a professional ballet dancer. I had no aspirations of going to college at all, but I ended up breaking my ankle and realizing that my body was fragile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI needed to do something else, so I started out at a community college\u2014which I don\u2019t think gets enough love.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said her time at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, was a fantastic place to start figuring herself out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I really loved about taking classes at a community college was it did feel like a community,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere were people who kind of came through, but a group of students went from class to class and gave you a feeling of that cohort experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madden dabbled in art history but admittedly didn\u2019t have connections in the art world. She took courses in nursing but realized it wasn\u2019t the right fit.<\/p>\n

She took psychology courses as part of her general education curriculum, though, \u201cand then it hit me one day,\u201d she recalled. \u201cYou enjoy this. Why not do something with this?\u201d<\/p>\n

After receiving an associate degree from Cabrillo College, she continued her undergraduate journey at the University of California, Santa Cruz\u2014where she had more self-discovery moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got to university and started taking my upper-division classes, I realized that there are fields called psycholinguistics, where you look at how people utilize language,\u201d she said, \u201cand so much in cognitive psychology is applicable to so many domains of the human experience, right? Cognition relates to learning and memory. Cognition relates to how we develop different kinds of skills, perceive the world, how we allocate our attention\u2014and attention is the foundation for essentially everything that we\u2019re able to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just opened up this whole world of psychology to me and I found it absolutely fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n

UC Santa Cruz is a Research 1 university\u2014a reference to the highest level of research activity as designated by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education\u2014and she said being at an R1 institution has a different mentality. For her, she missed the feeling of community. \u201cThat\u2019s really where I learned best,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The experience was pivotal in her future career direction.<\/p>\n

She continued studying psycholinguistics at Florida State University, receiving master\u2019s (2015) and doctoral (2019) degrees. Madden then had a decision to make.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I finished my graduate degree, I was debating, \u2018Do I go into an R1 institution or do I look at teaching schools that are more about getting students not just into research but into the community and into different ways of utilizing their psychology degree,\u2019\u201d she explained. \u201cThat\u2019s why I chose to come to UTC, because it is a teaching school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to create an experience for my students more reflective of my most positive experiences. I\u2019m taking this generation of student-centered experiences I had and infusing them into what I do here\u2014and I find it so rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Julie<\/p>\n

Like many other non-tenure-track faculty members, Madden prefers the teaching aspect of higher education, placing higher weight on classroom and community service rather than the stressors of research, writing grants and getting published. She said she feels her varied path and experiences are critical in mentoring students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy our students. They all come from such diverse backgrounds and everyone has a different story. Everyone is a wonderfully unique individual who can bring something to the classroom,\u201d she said, \u201cso I try to create these communities of learning within my classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Kristen Jennings Black works down the hall from Madden in the Department of Psychology wing of the 540 McCallie Building.<\/p>\n

Black said you can\u2019t help but notice the connection Madden has with her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always hear laughter coming from her office when she has student meetings. It seems like she really has a good rapport with them,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery time I hear students talking about Julie, it\u2019s always, \u2018You have to take cognitive psychology with Dr. Madden,\u2019 or, \u2018You have to take positive psychology with Dr. Madden; she\u2019s the best.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find Julie\u2019s a very authentic person, so she\u2019s her true self\u2014and I think the students love that in her; she just feels like a real person. She doesn\u2019t feel like someone trying to be polished and putting on a show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, had Madden\u2019s original career plan come to fruition, she would have been a ballet dancer\u2014which would have meant being polished and putting on a show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been so fixated that ballet was going to be my path that I hadn\u2019t considered what else I would do,\u201d Madden said of the broken left ankle between her junior and senior year in high school.<\/p>\n

Who knew a literal break would turn into a figurative break, leading her to psychology and a teaching career?<\/p>\n

\u201cI like being in the classroom and I love psychology,\u201d she said, calling it \u201creally, really fulfilling\u201d to be a part of a student\u2019s self-discovery moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really know how to explain it, but it is very fulfilling and very rewarding,\u201d Madden said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like you brag about it. I don\u2019t go to my friends and say, \u2018I helped 16 students find their calling today.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just personal and it feels like it\u2019s that intrinsic motivator that you\u2019re good at what you\u2019re doing and that you are helping people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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