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Candace Murray

Candace Murray

Adjunct Faculty | Social Sciences

  • North Campus
  • Faculty office hours are available through self-service.
Degree Emphasis Institution
Ph.D. General Psychology Capella University
M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis Capella University
B.S. General Psychology Western Michigan University

Biography

Dr. Candace Murray has over 15 years of higher education experience, working with learners from all backgrounds and academic spaces. Originally starting in the financial industry, Dr. Murray used her background in qualitative and quantitative research methods to develop data collect and analytical tools to review performance.

While working on her master's degree in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), she wanted to get into the teaching space to show her knowledge, psychology, and the various ways psychology is involved in our world and experiences. After her master's was completed, she wanted to be in a position to conduct research on experiences, after successfully defending her dissertation in 2023 allowed her to finally do so.

In 2023, Dr. Murray left the financial industry to pursue teaching, joining the CCAC team in Fall 2023, while teaching courses at Capella University at undergraduate and graduate levels.

 

Publications:
The Overall Experiences of African American Women Enrolled at Predominantly White Academic Institutions.

Research Interests:
Historically marginalized populations; academic environments; business settings; experiences; perceptions; qualitative research methods; case study; quantitative research methods; nonexperimental studies.

Presentations:
The Overall Experiences of African American Women Enrolled at Predominantly White Academic Institutions (Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Fall 2022)
The Comparison of Experiences of Black Women Between Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly White Academic Institutions (Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Fall 2023)

Officially being brought on to the adjunct team and getting my first course assignments for PSY-108 during my first semester with CCAC.

I love sharing my experiences and presenting different resources, tools, and ways to understand and learn the many things of psychology. Getting to know my students in each group has been one of my favorite things and seeing how psychology affects them across different degree programs.

I love marine biology, snorkeling, and I am working on being a certified scuba diver.

"When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it" —B.F. Skinner