The work of the Commission proceeded as far as time and funding permitted. Much has been accomplished, and much is left to be achieved. As a Commission of the American Psychological Association, it would be a grievous error in judgment if the long-range vision of CEMRRAT were to gather dust on shelves, if the proposed followup actions are never addressed, and certainly if the American Psychological Association fails to dedicate itself to moving the CEMRRAT plans forward.

What is required is a collaboration of different entities within the infrastructure of APA to complete goals identified by CEMRRAT. At the same time it is recognized that existing governance structures have their own current commitments, budgets, and agenda priorities, which could prevent their devoting full attention to such goals. Therefore, CEMRRAT is requesting action on several motions, aimed at two objectives: The first objective requires the APA Board of Directors to establish a procedure for timely review of CEMRRAT's Five-Year Plan and to approve a formal plan of action; the second objective recognizes the aforementioned difficulty of reorienting existing organizational components and proposes instead the establishment of a new organizational structure that can work collaboratively with existing entities to share responsibilities for the new APA plan of action.

In support of its findings and proposed Five-Year Plan, the Commission respectfully offers the following recommendations to the APA Board of Directors for its consideration.

1. Move that the APA Board of Directors (B/D) charge the Association's Boards and Committees both to review the CEMRRAT Five-Year Plan and to comment on the feasibility and implications of assuming responsibility for those tasks referred to specific governance groups as outlined in the CEMRRAT Five-Year Plan.

2. Move that the APA Board of Directors, after receipt and consideration of Board and Committee comments to the CEMRRAT Five-Year Plan, approve an APA Five-Year Plan that will guide the Association's efforts related to ethnic minority recruitment, retention, and training in psychology.

3. Move that the APA Board of Directors establish and support an ongoing committee reporting to the B/D that is charged to monitor and coordinate the Association's approved Five-Year Plan for ethnic minority recruitment, retention, and training, to be staffed by the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs (OEMA).

4. Move that the APA Board of Directors assign OEMA the responsibility for producing and disseminating CEMRRAT's products and makes available to OEMA the appropriate resources to accomplish this task.

5. Move that the APA Board of Directors authorize annual funds adequate to support the outlined activities and their estimated costs as proposed in the Five-Year Plan. Funding should begin in 1997.

6. Move that the APA Board of Directors provide a progress report annually to the Council of Representatives and the APA Membership on the progress of the approved Five-Year Plan.