INFO: Call for Nominations: Committee on Early Career Psychologists

Forwarded message begins From: "Jordan, Sarah" sjordan@APA.ORG Date: August 24, 2006 9:35:25 AM CDT Subject: [DIVOFFICERS] Committee on Early Career Psychologists Reply-To: "Jordan, Sarah" sjordan@APA.ORG Call for Nominations: Committee on Early Career Psychologists Committee on Early Career Psychologists The Committee on Early Career Psychologists is seeking nominations for two slates to serve a three-year term (2007-2009): Public Interest Slate: Experience in working with and ability to advocate for groups represented by APA’s Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest, including racial/ethnic diversity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disabilities, and international issues, is preferred. 2) Practice Slate: Experience and involvement in advancing and advocating for the professional practice interests of early career psychologists in all settings. The Committee on Early Career Psychologists seeks to research, organize and institute initiatives to increase the number of student affiliates who transition to full member status; as well as the number of early career psychologists joining the association for the first time; collaborate in the development and implementation of the recruitment and retention initiatives of the Membership Committee; support the development of new mechanisms and the enhancement of existing mechanism to increase participation in APA Divisions and State, Provincial and Territorial Psychological Associations among early career psychologists; promote greater awareness of the benefits of APA membership for early career psychologist and work to expand those benefits; and represent the interests and concerns of early career psychologists throughout APA governance and the central office. Nominees must be within seven years of the receipt of their doctorate on January 1, 2007. In addition, nominees must be able to attend in their entirety mandatory meetings in March and October. Meeting expenses are reimbursed by APA. To encourage the representation of ethnic diversity issues on the Committee, the Committee on Early Career Psychologists requests that nominators consider the ethnic background of the nominee(s). The committee suggests that nominators also consider equitable age and gender representation, and diverse representation of expertise. The Committee work extensively through email and phone conferences. Applicants should expect to spend a minimum of 5 hours per week engaged in committee activities. All nominations should include a statement of interest from the nominee and a current c.v. Nomination materials must be received by August 31, 2006. Nominations should be sent to earlycareer@apa.org If you have any questions about participation on the Committee on Early Career Psychologists, please contact the current Chair, Nabil El-Ghoroury, Ph.D., at nelghoroury@metrohealth.org . Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow APA Division 20 President Department of Educational Psychology 226 Education Building 1310 S. Sixth Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 244-2167 (office) (217) 244-7620 (fax) eals@uiuc.edu