Departmental Award for Culture of Service in the Psychological Sciences
The APA Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) is soliciting nominations for the Departmental Award for Culture of Service in the Psychological Sciences. This Award recognizes departments that demonstrate a commitment to service in the psychological sciences. Departments selected for this award will show a pattern of support for service from faculty at all levels, including a demonstration that service to the discipline is rewarded in faculty tenure and promotion. Successful Departments will also demonstrate that service to the profession is an integral part of training and mentoring.
Service to the discipline includes such activities as departmental release time for serving on boards and committees of psychological associations; editing journals; serving on a review panel; or chairing an IRB. Other culture of service activities that a department would encourage include mentoring students and colleagues; advocating for psychological science’s best interests with state and federal lawmakers; and promoting the value of psychological science in the public eye. The focus of this award is a department’s faculty service to the discipline and not their scholarly achievements.
Both Undergraduate and Graduate Departments of Psychology are eligible. Self-nominations are encouraged.
To submit a nomination the following is required:
- A letter that describes and illustrates the department’s commitment to a culture of service (e.g., nature of the department’s commitment, effect on tenure and promotion, mentoring, effect on current and/or former students’ activities as a result of the department’s focus on service, etc.). The letter should be no more than three pages long.
- Three letters of support from individuals familiar with the department’s support for a culture of service. (These letters can be from current or past faculty members; a Dean familiar with the department’s service program; etc.)
Each Department selected will receive an award of $5,000 to be used for departmental activities. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2008. Nominations will only be accepted as electronic submissions to Culture of Service. Please be sure to submit the nomination as a package that includes all the required letters.
The deadline for 2008 submissions is March 31, 2008
Past Recipients
2007: George Mason University, Department of Psychology; University of Florida, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
2006: Davidson College; University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology
For more information, please contact Suzanne Wandersman.
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