Academic Activities
Salinas completed his Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of Texas in Austin. He most recently served as associate professor of developmental and social psychology at Central Connecticut State University. He has published in a variety of publications, including the Journal of Black Psychology and Computers and Education. He has co-authored papers with psychologists Claude Steele, Joshua Aronson, and Richard Valencia. He has received awards from the American Education Research Association Grant in 2003, from the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award in 2002, and a The Pew Charitable Trusts Teaching Leadership Award in 1997.
On March 9, 2011, Salinas plead no contest to a charge of sexual assault on one of his students. He received a one-year suspended jail sentence and a two-year conditional discharge. The sentence was conditioned on him resigning his position at Central Connecticut State University, not teaching again, and leaving the country.
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