I arrived at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology 10 years ago with a charge from the Board of Trustees to take our mission and approach to psychology education to new frontiers and to connect to more students and communities. Every day since then I’ve joined you and others in advancing this vision. Along the way we never stopped in our cause to make The Chicago School of Professional Psychology a preeminent and nationally recognized graduate school.

There comes a time for all of us when we begin new chapters in our lives. For me, after long reflection, I have decided that the time has come to write the ending of one chapter and begin a new one. I have decided that 2010 will be the year I transition from the presidency of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

By the time you receive this issue of INSIGHT, a search will be well underway to find my successor—a person who will be a national voice for professional psychology education and an advocate for expanding the benefits of psychology and the related behavioral sciences.

As for me, I won’t be going far. Last year, a number of us here at TCSPP began creating something new and exciting: TCS Education System (TCS ES). A nonprofit organization, TCS ES will allow us to take the models of graduate education first developed here at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and apply them to other disciplines, such as education and human development and health and human services. The System also includes TCS Foundation, which will further connect us to new funding sources for the work that we do in the community both domestically and internationally.

It’s been an honor serving with you over the past decade. They have been the best 10 years of my life. Our work is only beginning, though, and I can’t wait to see where the next chapter takes us.

Michael Horowitz

President