Division News

• Council New Business Items from August 2002
• Feminist Visions and Diverse Voices: Leadership and Collaboration, Division 35, The Society for the Psychology of Women Website Announcement
• Call for Nominations -- Publications and Communications
• Correction Division 55
• Committee on Division/APA Relations
• Division Services Staff
• 2002 and 2003 Deadlines for Articles for the APA/Division Dialogue
• Your Opinion Is Important to Us!

Council New Business Items from August 2002

The Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR) provides the following information to division officers to increase the awareness of and opportunity for division input to governance issues that are on the current agendas of APA boards and committees. What follows is a summary of new business items submitted between the close of the February 2001 and August 2002 sessions of Council. The Agenda Planning Group, which is made up of the chairs of APA standing boards, the Committee on the Structure and Function of Council, CODAPAR (representing division interests), the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice (representing state/provincial interests) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS), met on August 25th to review the items received and refer them to APA groups for consideration. Divisions are invited to comment on these items. Summary statements for each item appear below, along with a list of the APA boards and committees to which the item was referred. The board or committee appearing in bold has been designated lead group for the item. Division comments on each item should be directed to the lead board or committee at the APA address.

The board/committee acronyms used in the listing are:

BAPPI - Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest

BEA - Board of Educational Affairs

BSA - Board of Scientific Affairs

CAPP - Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice

CODAPAR - Committee on Division/APA Relations

COLI - Committee on Legal Issues

CSFC - Committee on the Structure and Function of Council

P&P - Policy and Planning Board

Item 33A: Division 14 Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures

The Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology has prepared a new edition of its Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures, which was first released in 1987. The new edition will be mailed for notification and review to all divisions and state/provincial psychological associations.

Referred to: BSA & BPA, BEA, COLI, CODAPAR

Item 33B: Hiring of an Outside Management Firm to Inform APA Governance Structure and Function

This item recommends that an outside management consultant group be employed to provide a reform process for APA governance structure including the role and function of the Council of Representatives.

Referred to: P&P, CSFC

Item 33C: Protection of Mortgage Reserve

The Finance Committee and Board of Director are asked to devise a plan that will segregate funds needed to repay the mortgage on the APA building in 15 years.

Referred to: Finance Committee

Item 33D: Diversity Audit throughout APA

This is a request for a status report on diversity representation throughout APA to the Council of Representatives in February 2003.

Referred to: BAPPI

Feminist Visions And Diverse Voices: Leadership And Collaboration Division 35, The Society for the Psychology of Women Website Announcement. Join the discussion! www.feministleadership.com

Feminist Visions and Diverse Voices: Leadership and Collaboration is the Presidential Initiative of Jean Lau Chin, the 2002-2003 president of the Society for the Psychology of Women to dialogue about issues of feminist leadership. Bernice Lott and Janis Sanchez-Hucles will be co-editors with Jean Lau Chin to produce an E-publication and traditional book on Feminist Leadership. Marlene Maheu will be the E-editor along with Martha Banks, and Rosalie Ackerman to oversee the development of the E-publication and site.

A series of 15 discussion boards will be convened through an Internet-based website starting September 2002 through June 2003 to bring together teams of feminist psychologists to dialogue on:

• Models of Feminist leadership and manage- ment styles
• Collaboration as a feminist process that will influence leadership and feminist agendas to be inclusive and diverse
• Diversity of theoretical and ethnic perspectives of feminism, and the intersection of these identities in models of feminist leadership

Section 2 looks at Collaboration as a Feminist Process. Two discussion forums in this section are supported by the 2002 Interdivisional Grant granted by the Committee on division/APA Relations (CODAPAR), and look at feminist collaboration, and collaboration with national and international women’s organizations toward a feminist agenda. The former is a forum made up of APA female division presidents who will dialogue about feminist leadership and collaboration within APA governance. We hope to develop a strategic agenda for feminist issues. These discussions will begin September 2002 and continue through June 2003, and will result in a traditional book on feminist leadership and an E-publication.

Core questions are: What is feminist leadership? What are the diverse and different ways in which women lead and are managers? What can we do to promote feminist leadership in policy and collaboration, and among diverse groups? This E-dialogue is open to all Division 35 members and feminist women. Join one of the discussion forums with feminist leaders by signing on to: www.feministleadership.com.

Section 1: Models of Diverse Feminist Leadership – Bernice Lott http://www.feministleadership.com/femlead.html

• Diverse feminist leadership and management styles – Judith Albino and Toy Caldwell-Colbert
• Feminist communication styles – Ann Yabusaki
• Feminist leadership models – Mary Ballou and Karen Suyemoto
• Culturally competent feminist leadership: Outcomes and competencies – Erica Wise and Ester Shapiro

Section 2: Collaboration as a Feminist Process – Jean Lau Chin http://www.feministleadership.com/femcol.html

• Developing feminist policy – Norine Johnson and Connie Chan
• Feminist collaboration within APA governance – Nadya Fouad and Diane Willis
• Forming national and international collaboration for a feminist agenda – Joy Rice and Asuncion Austria
• Division 35 Strategic Planning – Jean Lau Chin and Executive Committee

Section 3: Leadership among Diverse Feminist Groups – Janis Sanchez-Hucles http://www.feministleadership.com/divfem.html

• Training for feminist leadership – Jessica Henderson Daniel and Natalie Porter
• Difficult Dialogues – Janis Sanchez-Hucles
• Leadership and collaboration among diverse feminist groups
  • Latina American Women – Star Vega and Lorraine Martinez
  • African American Women – Ruth Hall and BraVada Garrett-Akinsanya
  • Asian American Women – Jeanette Hsu and Edna Esnil
  • Native American Women – Teresa LaFromboise and Pamela Jumper Thurman
  • Women with Disabilities – Martha Banks and Linda Mona
  • Lesbian Women – Beverly Greene and Nancy Baker
  • European American Ethnic Minority Womenu

Call for Nominations -- Publications and Communications

The Publications and Communications Board has opened nominations for the editorships of Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, Developmental Psychology, and Psychological Review for the years 2005-2010. Robert J. Sternberg, PhD, James L. Dannemiller, PhD and Walter Mischel, PhD respectively, are the incumbent editors.

Candidates should be members of APA and should be available to start receiving manuscripts in early 2004 to prepare for issues published in 2005. Please note that the P&C Board encourages participation by members of underrepresented groups in the publication process and would particularly welcome such nominees. Self-nominations are also encouraged.

Search chairs have been appointed as follows:

• Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, Susan H. McDaniel, PhD and Mike Pressley, PhD
• Developmental Psychology, Joseph J. Campos, PhD
• Psychological Review, Mark I. Appelbaum, PhD

To nominate candidates, prepare a statement of one page or less in support of each candidate. Address all nominations to the appropriate search committee to Karen Sellman, P&C Board Search Liaison, Room 2004 at the APA address.

The first review of nominations will begin November 15, 2002. Deadline for accepting nominations is November 25, 2002.u

Correction Division 55

Correction Division 55 election results were incorrectly reported in the Dialogue’s July/August 2002 issue. The actual winners were as follows:

President-elect: Beth N. Rom-Rymer, PhD
Secretary: Elaine S. LeVine, PhD
Member-at-Large: James H. Bray, PhD

Committee on Division/APA Relations

Gloria B. Gottsegen, PhD, Chair
Divisions: 12, 29, 38, 39, 42, 46, 52, 55

Keith O. Yeates, PhD, Vice-Chair
Divisions: 5, 8, 23, 26, 27, 40, 43, 53, 54

Gary R. Brooks, PhD
Divisions: 13, 18, 20, 22, 31, 33, 41, 50, 51

Angelo S. DeNisi, PhD
Divisions: 1, 14, 15, 19, 21, 24, 25, 34

Mary E. Kite, PhD
Divisions: 2, 3, 6, 7, 28, 35, 44, 47, 48

Ilene Serlin, PhD
Divisions: 9, 10, 16, 17, 30, 32, 36, 37, 45

Charles L. Brewer, PhD, Board of Directors Liaison

Division Services Staff

Laura Anibal Braceland, Division Services Coordinator
Keith Cooke, Division Services Manager
Penny Harrison, Division Services Assistant
Sarah Jordan, Director, Divisions Services
Courtney Leyendecker, Division Services Officer

2002 and 2003 Deadlines for Articles for the APA/Division Dialogue

Please submit copy on diskette or via email to Courtney Leyendecker

November/December: October 22nd
January/February 2003: December 13th
March/April 2003: February 21st
May/June 2003: April 25th
July/August 2003: June 20th

Your Opinion Is Important to Us!

At the August 2002 Council of Representatives meeting, Leona Aiken, PhD (CR-Div5) announced that the Council evaluation subgroup appointed by APA President Phil Zimbardo, PhD, would gather reactions to the "cluster programming" as part of the new APA convention format through a survey that has been sent to division presidents. As of September 10, 2002, the Research Office had received only one response. It is very important for each division president to complete and return the survey so that Council and the Board of Convention Affairs will be able to assess the success of cluster programming.

To help the divisions to distribute the survey to other members of its executive committee, the Research Office has posted the survey on the APA web site at http://research/apa.org/clusterprogramevaluation.pdf. It is hoped that each division will submit a single response informed by its full executive committee.

Divisions are asked to submit their completed surveys to the Research Office as soon as possible. These can be also be faxed to the Research Office at (202) 336-6148.