The Task Force on Enhancing Diversity in APA has proposed several recommendations to help APA better reflect and serve diverse members. A few of its immediate priorities for APA:

• Formulate and adopt a general antidiscrimination policy.

• Expand APA's Publication and Communications Board data base of ethnic-minority psychologists to include other marginalized groups who have expertise to serve as ad hoc reviewers on editorial boards.

• Survey governance groups to gauge the climate and level of participation of diverse members.

Some of the group's medium-term priorities for APA are to:

• Consider ongoing joint meetings among APA governance groups to identify common interests, foster better understanding, promote collaboration and reduce biases and barriers.

• Develop activities to encourage diverse marginalized students and early-career psychologists to participate in APA governance or leadership roles and to pursue research careers.

• Conduct a survey of psychologists not affiliated with APA to determine why they don't join.

Among the group's long-term priorities for APA:

• Conduct an analysis and feasibility study on the need, demand and cost of translating APA materials and key psychological works into other languages.

• Evaluate the possibility of reduced dues for members of national ethnic-minority organizations.

• Identify and reach out to international psychology organizations, such as in the Middle East and Africa, to develop joint activities related to convention, training, practice and research efforts.

--M. DITTMANN TRACEY