Present: Alice Healy (President), Tom Zentall (President-Elect), Howard Egeth, Ralph R. Miller, Deborah Clawson, Sharon L. Armstrong, Marvin Lamb, Manny Donchin, Lewis Lipsitt, Angelo Santi.

1. Alice Healy noted that David Gorfein was unable to attend the meeting and that Angelo Santi would be acting as secretary for the meeting.  

2. Secretary-Treasurer’s Report: Dues, Membership, Elections

The Secretary-Treasurer’s report submitted and prepared by Gorfein was read to the Executive Committee by Santi.

      Healy noted that one of the costs not specifically mentioned in the Budget section of the report was that Division 3 covered the costs of dinner for the invited speakers to the convention.

      Healy asked for comments on the Secretary-Treasurer’s report and Tom Zentall noted that he thought it would be a good idea to co-ordinate convention programming for Divisions 1, 3, and 6. Funds to support this initiative would be   sought through a grant from the Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR). These funds would make it possible to cover the registration costs for invited speakers. This was the practice a number of years ago but not recently. The costs for Division 3 would be approximately (14 x $215 = $3010). 

3. APA Council Report

      Manny Donchin and Lewis Lipsitt were asked to provide a report from APA council.

1. Donchin noted that APA is very healthy financially. The science community is largely responsible for this because of the revenues derived from electronic scientific journals subscriptions to libraries, institutions, and individual researchers. Approximately 60% of APA revenues comes from publications while only 20% or less comes from membership dues. Lipsitt noted that the APA publication manual is a big seller, and that a significant portion of APA wealth also comes from real estate owned in Washington. Donchin also provided an update on the attempt to establish a new division on human-animal interaction. While there was an attempt by the APA President’s working group on this issue to rescind the previous (Feb 2005) vote, this was declared contrary to rules-of order because it is not possible to rescind the vote on a motion that wasn’t passed. Hence, the item dealing with the creation of this division was removed from the agenda of the Council of Representatives. In order for it to be placed on the agenda, the protagonists would need to once again get the requisite number of signatures required to place it before council.
2. Lipsitt reported that Council had unanimously supported a document which advocated evidence-based clinical interventions and psychological practice.

4. Visit from the APA Science Directorate

      Three representatives from the APA Science Directorate joined the meeting at this point – Steve Breckler, Executive Director for Science, Clare Porac, Visiting Senior Scientist, and Sangy Panicker, Director, Research Ethics Office. Donchin asked Breckler about the possibility of the Psychonomic Society joining APA at substantially reduced membership fees. Breckler reviewed the reasons for being an APA member and for going to the convention. He noted that dues were less and less a factor in the total revenues generated by APA, and that it might be worth looking into the possibility of a deep discount in APA dues for members of a specific list of societies. This should likely be framed in terms of the advantages to APA of increasing the size of its membership significantly by reducing dues   substantially for academic researchers who work at universities and research institutions that subscribe to APA electronic journals.

5. Division 3 Convention Program Discussion

Clawson encouraged attendance at the Division 3 Poster Session that followed the Division 3 Presidential Address by Healy. There was some discussion regarding the possibility of emailing the Division 3 program to all members prior to the meeting. The 2004 Program Chairs, Deborah Clawson and Sharon Armstrong, were congratulated and thanked by the Executive Committee for putting together an excellent program this year.

6. APA Presidential Election

The Executive Committee passed a motion which supported ranking highly both Bruce Overmier and Sharon Brehm as candidates for APA President. This motion was consistent with the recommendation of the Caucus of Academic and Applied Psychologists on the Council of Representatives.  Zentall will explore how we can notify our members to encourage them to vote in the Presidential elections and to provide high rankings to both Overmier and Brehm.

7. Graduate Student Representation on the Executive Committee

The Executive Committee unanimously supported a motion for the President-Elect to appoint a non-voting graduate student representative to Division 3 Executive Committee for a 1 year term. Tom Zentall will make this appointment for August 2005- August 2006, and Howard Egeth will make the appointment for August 2006- August 2007.

8. The Executive Committee meeting was adjourned at 12:35pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Angelo Santi

Acting Secretary-Treasurer

Department of Psychology

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3C5

(519) 884-0710, ext. 3087 Fax: (519) 746-7605

asanti@wlu.ca