Personal Profile:

Dr. Julie Parker Dilday is former Wake Co. Deputy Sheriff and currently serves as the Director of the College's Quality Enhancement Plan, Department Head for Humanities & Social Sciences, and Psychology Instructor. She has a  B.A. in Fine Art from Meredith College, and a MA in Transpersonal Psychology/Counseling from John F. Kennedy University. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. Her dissertation research, "After Death Communication Experiences and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief" earned a nomination for Saybrook's ?Dissertation of Distinction.?  Dr. Dilday published ?Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief? in the peer-reviewed journal Omega: Journal of Death and Dying in 2005.  Dr. Dilday is an active volunteer for Therapy Dogs International and PAWS of Hertford County. Her special interests are photography, drawing, and painting. 

Educational Philosophy:

The student should never be perceived as an empty vessel in which "knowledge" is relayed by an "expert". Students and instructors work actively together to continually develop the ability to "think" about theories and the perceptions of those theories as they attempt to explain reality. The goal of formal education is to continually develop one's ability to think independently, flexibly, fair-mindedly, and creatively. Student and instructor each influence the development of the other. Successful education impacts the "whole person" by making her/him more aware of the self within the context of a global community. 

Subjects Taught:

Basic Study Skills, General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Interpersonal Psychology, Health Psychology, Critical Thinking.